Deserializing local NSString of JSON into objects via RestKit (no network download)

Question

Is it possible to deserialize an NSString of JSON into objects via RestKit? I checked the API list here and could not find something that would serve for this p

Answer 1

This works for Restkit 0.20, using Core Data Entities. It is based in the solution given by @innerself

NSString* jsonFilePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"info-base"
                                                         ofType:@"json"];

NSString* JSONString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:jsonFilePath
                                                 encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding
                                                    error:NULL];


NSError *error = nil;

NSData *data = [JSONString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
id parsedData = [RKMIMETypeSerialization objectFromData:data MIMEType:RKMIMETypeJSON error:&error];
if (parsedData == nil && error) {
    // Parser error...
    NSLog(@"parse error");
}

//_objectManager is RKObjectManager instance
NSMutableDictionary *mappingsDictionary = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
for (RKResponseDescriptor *descriptor in [RKObjectManager sharedManager].responseDescriptors) {

    [mappingsDictionary setObject:descriptor.mapping forKey:descriptor.keyPath];
}

RKManagedObjectMappingOperationDataSource *datasource = [[RKManagedObjectMappingOperationDataSource alloc]
                                                         initWithManagedObjectContext:[RKManagedObjectStore defaultStore].persistentStoreManagedObjectContext
                                                                                cache:[RKManagedObjectStore defaultStore].managedObjectCache];

RKMapperOperation *mapper = [[RKMapperOperation alloc] initWithRepresentation:parsedData
                                                           mappingsDictionary:mappingsDictionary];
[mapper setMappingOperationDataSource:datasource];

NSError *mappingError = nil;
BOOL isMapped = [mapper execute:&mappingError];
if (isMapped && !mappingError) {
    // data is in [mapper mappingResult]
}