Question

I’m using Restkit to consume a web service that sends back XML. Some of the elements are the datetime type. It looks like Restkit wants to treat these as NSDictionary. Is there a simpler way to handle this? Maybe some way to just get the text between the tags?

Here’s an of what I’m talking about. XML like this:

<lastRenewedDate xsi:type="xs:dateTime">2012-09-18T09:53:00-04:00</lastRenewedDate>

Seems to be interpreted by Restkit like this:

lastRenewedDate =     {
    text = "2012-09-18T09:53:00-04:00";
    "xmlns:xs" = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
    "xmlns:xsi" = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
    "xsi:type" = "xs:dateTime";
};

EDIT: To clarify, I’m asking if there’s a way for Restkit to directly map that text between the tags:

2012-09-18T09:53:00-04:00

directly to an NSString rather than mapping it to an NSDictionary and me having to get that text out.

Answer 1

Not sure if this is what you are asking for, BUT to get the time as a NSString-object you can do this

    NSString *dateString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate: [[[NSArray objectAtIndex:*SOME INDEX*] objectForKey:@"lastRenewedDate"] objectForKey:@"text"];

, where dateFormatter is a NSDateFormatter-object

You can look up how to use dateFormats here