Question

I’m in the process of the building a simple iphone application and I had a few questions.

I need to parse through results from an API key search, and manipulate them in my program. The API is from rotten tomatoes, and I can’t find a parser that works with ARC. I know the JSON kit works well for previous versions of XCode, but I really like ARC and have done my application to date using it.

1) Is there a solid parser for such results or is it something I’m going to have to do manually?

The basic structure of my app includes a search page and personal list of things, using a mutable array of objects to populate a table view.

2) whats the best way to design the classes and implementation? I know this is a vague questions so let me be more specific. I have one object with several attributes, and I want to both access a remote server and rotten tomatoes API, and store local data internally. So I have my storyboad with a controller for each tab view (there are two). Then I have my object class. Do i need to create a controller specifically for it or can I manipulate (create and delete) in other controllers?

I can give some more specifics about the application, I’m just feeling a little overwhelmed as it is my first time working with Xcode. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

May i suggest you the NSJSONSerialization Class., it should work well with ARC as it is compatible with iOS 5 and above.

Or you can set the ARC flag to no in .m files that you would like it to be switched off. For that purpose you can refer a great answer here.