Question

I’m trying to get video thumbnails from Vimeo, but for some reason, I cannot turn the returned NSData into a UIImage. Here’s my code. How do I turn NSData of type text/html; charset=UTF-8 into a UIImage?

-(void)getThumbnails
{
    int count = _videos.count;
    Video* v = nil;
    RKRequest* r = nil;

    for( int i = 0; i<count; i++)
    {
        v = [_videos objectAtIndex:i];


        r = [[RKClient sharedClient] get:v.thumbnail delegate:self];
        GMGridViewCell* gridViewCell = [self GMGridView:_gmGridView cellForItemAtIndex:i];
 //prints http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/257/009/257009714_200.jpg
        NSLog(@"thumbnail url: %@",v.thumbnail);

        [r setUserData:gridViewCell];

    }

}

Here’s the response:

-(void)requestQueue:(RKRequestQueue *)queue didLoadResponse:(RKResponse *)response
{

    if([response.request.userData isKindOfClass:[GMGridViewCell class]])
    {


        //prints content type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
        NSLog(@"content type: %@",response.contentType);

        GMGridViewCell* cell = response.request.userData;

        NSData* responseBody = response.body;
        UIImage* image = [UIImage imageWithData:responseBody];

        cell.imageView.image = image;

          }
}

Update:

after checking the response as body, it appears that vimeo returns a not found page , while typing that into an browser returns an image :/

Answer 1

I figured out the answer:

r = [[RKClient sharedClient] get:v.thumbnail delegate:self];

was prepending the default path that is set up when the client is initialized in front of the request, creating a http:// …http://… like path that the server did not recognize, replying with a not found message.