Question

I’m working on the script in objective-c.
I created a “Command Line Tool” in xcode and I want to request a JSON web service.

In my previous iPhone apps I use to import ASIHTTPRequest framework. Unfortunetly this framework use UIKit library.

I don’t want to import this library and all these dependencies.

Do you know a good framework or library that I can use in my Command Line Tool application ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

ASIHTTPRequest shouldn’t require UIKit. You should be able to remove that if it’s there. You can’t import UIKit into a Mac app anyway.

The ASI framework has been discontinued, though. You may want to look at other options such as MKNetworkKit and AFNetworking. Both should work fine in a commandline app.

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EDIT: Don’t forget that most frameworks like this will require a run loop. The typical way to manage that in a commandline app looks like this (from NSRunLoop docs):

BOOL shouldKeepRunning = YES;        // global
NSRunLoop *theRL = [NSRunLoop currentRunLoop];
while (shouldKeepRunning && [theRL runMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode beforeDate:[NSDate distantFuture]]);

This is an infinite loop until something sets shouldKeepRunning.

You can also use NSApplication as shown in Run NSRunLoop in a Cocoa command-line program.