Description

ANRestOps is a simple library based on the NSURLConnection and NSOperationQueue APIs. It abstracts away most of the complexity to set up these objects and allows you to make simple REST calls in a single line of code.

Usage

ANRestOps currently has GET, POST, Put and DELETE methods. The method call will return an instance of ANRestOpsResponse. This class has a number of helper methods to extract data from the response. Refer to ANRestOpsResponse.h.

A GET request can be executed like the below line:

ANRestOpsResponse *response = [ANRestOps get:@"http://httpbin.org/get"];

Or you can optionally include parameters in the form of an NSDictionary. The keys and values will be formatted into web form (application/x-www-form-urlencoded) before the request.

NSDictionary *params = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:@"Value1",@"Key1",@"Value2",@"Key2", nil];
ANRestOpsResponse *response = [ANRestOps get:@"http://httpbin.org/get" withParameters:params];

To perform a GET request in the background, the following method can be used:

[ANRestOps getInBackground:@"http://httpbin.org/get"
            beforeRequest:^
{
    // Put any work that needs to be done before the request here
}
            onCompletion:^(ANRestOpsResponse *response)
{   
    // The completion handler will be passed the response and is run on the main thread
}];

Or optionally with parameters:

NSDictionary *params = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:@"Value1",@"Key1",@"Value2",@"Key2", nil];
[ANRestOps getInBackground:@"http://httpbin.org/get"
                parameters:params
             beforeRequest:^
{
    // Put any work that needs to be done before the request here
}
              onCompletion:^(ANRestOpsResponse *response)
{
    // The completion handler will be passed the response and is run on the main thread
}];

POST requests can also be done similarly. There is an extra option that allows you to choose how your payload is formatted. You could pass in a plain NSString instance or an NSDictionary and choose to have it formatted as form parameters or JSON. An example is shown below. POST requests can be done synchronously or asynchronously similar to GET.

NSDictionary *params = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:@"Value1",@"Key1",@"Value2",@"Key2", nil];
[ANRestOps postInBackground:@"http://httpbin.org/get"
                        payload:params
                  payloadFormat:ANRestOpsJSONFormat
                  beforeRequest:^
    {
        // Put any work that needs to be done before the request here
    }
                   onCompletion:^(ANRestOpsResponse *response)
    {
        // The completion handler will be passed the response and is run on the main thread
    }]; 

Requirements

ANRestOps requires at least iOS 7 and ARC.

Installation

Documentation

Docs are available on CocoaDocs

Author

Ayush Newatia, [email protected]

License

ANRestOps is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.