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Asked: 2026-05-11T02:25:05+00:00

Okay this is a fairly broad question. This is my first App and I’m

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Okay this is a fairly broad question. This is my first App and I’m not sure the best way to go about this. The app is on the IPHONE.

I have a ‘Restaurant’ class. The restaurant has many different attributes and opening times. I currently store a restaurant in an instance of nsdata (it complies to NSCoding) LOcal storage is easy and I just use nsdata.

I have just built in an import/export function. I want these two methods to ‘post’ a restaurant to the web and ‘get’ a restaurant from the web. I know I can do this with NSUrlConnection and I have it up and working.

However I want to be cleverer about it. For instance what if I want to take my online list of restaurants that have been submitted and build a web interface that can also interact with the data?

This is what I am thinking so far: Create a ‘toString’ method that will convert my class into a textual representation. Then store the string on a server. This will replace storing nsdata online. Does this sound appropriate?

However, I want to be able to query the amount of restaurants and have a bit more control over my online ‘database’. Is XML the answer? I was about the start looking into Amazon Web Services and learn either Json or Rest.

Any bits of advice?

Thanks

Dan

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  1. Learn about REST, it’s the easiest and cleanest way to provide a web-based API. Some frameworks, like Ruby on Rails, give you a REST interface right out of the box.

    Then, you’ll need to find a way to convert your objects on the iPhone into a REST-friendly format. XML and JSON are both options, but unfortunately I haven’t seen any code for converting to/from XML or JSON that I can really recommend, since I haven’t tried any just yet. But, there are some projects that might lead you in the right direction. One of the most promising-looking is this:

    http://github.com/yfactorial/objectiveresource/tree/master

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