iPhone REST client [closed]

Question

Does anybody know is there any good library for iPhone SDK to call REST web service. I want to have something simple like Heroku rest client

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Thx everybody for help.

My server side is on Rails so looks like ObjectiveResource feet best of my needs.

Answer 1

Take a look at RestKit: http://restkit.org/ It provides an excellent API for accessing RESTful web services and representing the remote resources as local objects, including persisting them to Core Data. It's fully asynchronous and sports a lot of other slick features

Answer 2

Using REST based services really doesn't need a "good library."

NSURLConnection and NSURLRequest, included in the SDK, are all you really need.

Answer 3

I suggest using the excellent ASIHTTPRequest source from All-Seeing Interactive: http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest. I'm doing this, and so are several released iPhone apps, so you can be sure the code is pretty solid.

This is a wrapper around the CFNetwork API that makes some of the more tedious aspects of communicating with web servers easier. It is written in Objective-C and works in both Mac OS X and iPhone applications.

It is suitable for performing basic HTTP requests and interacting with REST-based services (GET / POST / PUT / DELETE). The ASIFormDataRequest subclass makes it easy to submit POST data and files using multipart/form-data.

Answer 4

[akosma / iphonerestwrappert] try this wrapper from github

Caged / httpriot this is a very Simple HTTP Rest Library for iPhone and Cocoa projects.

Answer 5

In case your REST service is implemented in Ruby on Rails, the open source ObjectiveResource project is looking very promising. It has been working great for me in a relatively complex project of mine, and I've even contributed some code back to them.

ObjectiveResource

Answer 6

I created a blog article about doing this.

http://www.dreamfreeze.net/weblog/restful_webservices.html