Question

I’m working on making a client for my REST service on the iPhone. I’m a little lost as to how I go about making the GET and POST requests. I make the url from a NSString, convert it to an NSURL and create the NSURLRequest based off of the url. After that I’m pretty lost. Also, sometimes I care about the response, other times I don’t. For example, when making a request for a new id, I care about the response because it’s the id I’ll use to upload my file later, but when I upload the file I don’t care because the server doesn’t send a response.



Does anyone have some (hopefully)simple sample code that they could point me to / share?



What I have so far:

-(NSString *) makeGetRequest:(NSString *)url :(Boolean)careAboutResult
{
    NSString *results = nil;

    NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:url]];
    NSError *reqError;
    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    if(careAboutResult == YES)
    {
        //get the result
    }
    return results;
 }


In the code I’m testing with, the URL is

http://192.168.0.108:8081/TestUploadService/RestfulUpload.svc/id/test123_DOT_png

and I’m saying I do care about the result.



Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

@nick its good you have created a NSURLRequest now you just need to create a connection to send this request and receive response, this request is GET request.

To make POST request you will need to use NSMutableURLRequest and set its method name and body content. Here in documentation you will find how you can do this.