How to download a file by using NSURLConnection?

问题:

I want to ask a question about the objective C. I want to download a .vcf file from a server (CardDav server) in iPhone application. After I read the API and library of the Apple Developer, I found that I should use the NSURLConnection Class. However, I don't know how to start the program.

Therefore, I want to ask can anyone give me some tutorial or website reference (I mean the example) for me? Thank you very much.

回答1:

You can use this method:

- (id)initWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request delegate:(id)delegate startImmediately:(BOOL)startImmediately

More here and the delegate:

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveResponse:(NSURLResponse *)response

- (void)connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection *)connection

The delegate is an object that can respond to 2 above methods to receive the data. If you want to do asynchronous, you have to use delegate. If you don't, you can just do:

+ (NSData *)sendSynchronousRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request returningResponse:(NSURLResponse **)response error:(NSError **)error

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Or you can just do like this for some data:

+ (id)dataWithContentsOfURL:(NSURL *)aURL

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