Using blocks in Restkit (like ASIHttpRequest Blocks)

Question

i have been using the block support extensively in ASIHttpRequest, and i have found it to be an extremely elegant way of coding async requests, much more so than having the delegate call back a seperate function

Here is the example code for quick reference.

   __block ASIHTTPRequest *request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:url];
   [request setCompletionBlock:^{
      NSString *responseString = [request responseString];
   }];
   [request startAsynchronous];

I would like to start using Restkit, but I need to be able to use Restkit with blocks as well.

I have seen the wrapper here Restkit Block Wrapper, but would like to check if that wrapper would work well in production, and if anyone have used it extensively before

Ming, ASIHTTPREQUEST is an incredibly advanced and highly developed library. Really, it is astounding - there's no other word. It's probably fair to say it is, by far, the **most reliable** third party library of any type in the iOS universe. I guess, the very short answer to your question is "no, nothing else will be as reliable." Hope it helps! — Fattie, Jun 11 '11 at 13:53

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 26 '11 at 01:10

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I have not used the RestKit Block wrapper yet, but I will be shortly. I'm actually removing ASIHTTPRequest from my App and replacing with RestKit. Not because it's bad, ASIHTTP* is quite stable - but it isn't evolving. While many other libraries, like RestKit, wrap NSURLConnection and so reap the benefits of Apples continuing enhancements to it, ASIHTTP* uses CFNetwork. Apple isn't investing a lot of effort in improving preexisting Core Foundation classes (like CFNetwork). Also, since ASIHTTP* depends on CF, it's going to be a royal pain to migrate to ARC when it's available; I wan't the benefits of ARC as soon as possible.

answered Jun 26 '11 at 01:10

RyanR

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i am actually just building an additional wrapper class on top of all my objectmapper, and that is working well. here is to wishing that restkit would support blocks by the time it reaches v1! – meow Jun 26 '11 at 04:02
Ben who created ASIHTTPRequest actually just announced on his blog that he's officially stopping development on ASIHTTPRequest, also for reason mentioned above: http://allseeing-i.com/[request_release]; – runmad Sep 25 '11 at 14:29

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 29 '11 at 12:24

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Blocks support for all the basic delegate tasks on RKRequest and RKObjectLoader will be coming in 0.9.4

answered Aug 29 '11 at 12:24

Blake Watters

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Jens Kohl · Answer 3 · 2011-08-30T14:38:59.447

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Yesterday, Blake released verson 0.9.3 which features the usage of blocks for the Object Mapper (other methods were already ready for blocks). You should take look at the new features.

edited Aug 30 '11 at 14:38

answered Aug 03 '11 at 14:41

Jens Kohl

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 07 '12 at 22:54

For a quick code sample to use RestKit with blocks, I derived this snippet from http://kalapun.com/blog/2012/05/17/how-i-restkit/

[[RKClient sharedClient] get:@"/fooBar" usingBlock:^(RKRequest *request) {

    request.onDidLoadResponse = ^(RKResponse *response) {

        NSLog(@"Retrieved XML: %@", [response bodyAsString]); 
    };
}];

Using blocks in Restkit (like ASIHttpRequest Blocks)

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