iPhone REST client [closed]

Answer 1

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

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

Answer 2

I created a blog article about doing this.

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

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

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 5

After using the super verbose and painful delegates that you had to until iOS 4, we moved over to using blocks for asynchronous behavior. it's been really great and has allowed our code to actually be readable lately.

We open sourced the rest client that we used here :

https://github.com/jeremylightsmith/RestClient

Let us know how it works for you.

Answer 6

[akosma / iphonerestwrappert] try this wrapper from github

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