asihttprequest

I'm currently using synchronous ASIHTTPRequest with GCD queues to download data from the Internet, then parse the response data with JSONKit. What do you think about this pattern. Thank you in advance. Here is my code: dispatch_async(queue, ^(void) { // Request is ASIHTTPRequest. [request startSynchronous]; // Parse JSON. NSArray *array = [[request responseData] objectFromJSONDataWithParseOptions:JKParseOptionLooseUnicode]; // Callback on the main queue to update UI. dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(void) { callbackBlock(array); }); }); EDIT: The reason I use ASIHTTPRequest is that

I've read a number of posts here about NSManagedObjectContext and multi-threaded applications. I've also gone over the CoreDataBooks example to understand how separate threads require their own NSManagedObjectContext, and how a save operation gets merged with the main NSManagedObjectContext. I found the example to be good, but also too application specific. I'm trying to generalize this, and wonder if my approach is sound. My approach is to have a generic function for fetching the NSManagedObjectContext for the current thread. The function returns the NSManagedObjectContext for the main thread

I am trying to change my code from ASIHTTPRequest to AFNetworking. Currently I want to select 10-15 different HTTP URLs (files) and download them to a documents folder. With ASIHTTPRequest that was pretty easy with [myQueue setDownloadProgressDelegate:myUIProgressView]; In AFNetworking I can't figure out how to do it. I have the following code which downloads the files, stores them and notifies when a file downloads successfully, but I can't create the progress bar for this queue with total size. for (i=0; i<3; i++) { NSString *urlpath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://www.domain.com/file

This is one very common question asked again and again on stack overflow and I read so many answers about this but I am still bit confused. I need to call the webservices from iPhone sdk. Here are my questions: I am not clear what response SOAP or REST return.Is there anything specific that if response is XML then we should use REST and if JSON we should use SOAP? What is the role of ASIHTTP with SOAP and REST? If I am getting XML response as <oproduct> <iid>113133791</iid> <icategoryid>270</icategoryid> <imerchantid>1547</imerchantid> <iadult>0</iadult> <sname>The Ashes / 1st Test - England v

I am trying to implement google reader in iPhone APP and so far I have successfully received the sid and auth . The problem arises when I try to call the Endpoints API with GET .. Here's the code: ASIHTTPRequest *request = [self requestForAPIEndpoint:@"https://www.google.com/reader/api/0/subscription/list?output=json"]; [request setDelegate:self]; [request startAsynchronous]; - (ASIHTTPRequest *) requestForAPIEndpoint: (NSString *) apiEndpoint { ASIHTTPRequest *request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString: apiEndpoint]]; [request addRequestHeader: @"User-Agent" value: @