Custom Username Header

[SeanLintern]

Custom Username Header

[johnclayton]

Hey criosist, I'll add a test case and see if I can track down what you're seeing. How are you logging out the headers after you set up the resource?

[SeanLintern]

Sorry i made a mistake and didn't realise that my username was in fact NULL and the rest client was removing it for a good reason, sorry again.]

On 3 Oct 2012, at 18:00, John Clayton wrote:

Hey criosist, I'll add a test case and see if I can track down what you're seeing. How are you logging out the headers after you set up the resource?

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[johnclayton]

Ah, well good to know it was handling nil header values properly then ;-) Feel free to file issues for anything else you notice.

[SeanLintern]

Just enquiring really, but at the moment i am making a post request via adding the things i need to an array, and then adding those to a string via:

//Request Vars for /Json/GetNodeCubeData
NSMutableArray *testQuery = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
[testQuery addObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@""NodeId":%@,",nodeID]];
[testQuery addObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@""UnitId":%@,",unitID]];
[testQuery addObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@""DataAggregation":%@,",dataAggregation]];
[testQuery addObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@""DateAggregation":%@,",dateAggregation]];
[testQuery addObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@""DateFrom":%@,",dateFrom]];
[testQuery addObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@""DateTo":%@",dateTo]];
[testQuery addObject:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"}]}"]];

payload = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"{"Items":[{%@",[testQuery componentsJoinedByString:@""]];
NSLog(@"Payload: %@",payload);

Is there a better way to make these requests ?

[johnclayton]

If what I think you are attempting is correct—you want to send a collection of name:value pairs to your endpoint as JSON—then yes, there is an easier way.

RESTClient automatically encodes/decodes objects for you depending on the content type. You can take a look at the implementations of <RCCoder> to see how it works, but basically, if "json" is matched in the content type header the request will take any supplied payload and turn it into JSON if it can.

So you could do it like this:

RCResource *myResource = [site resource:@"items"];
NSDictionary *payload = @{ items : @[ @{ @"foo": @"bar" } ] };
[myResource post:payload withCompletionBlock:^(RCResponse *response) {
    if (response.success) {
          ..
    }
}];

The README has a few examples of passing in objects that get coded using various heuristics if you want to check out more. Also, you can take a look at the specs as they have examples of doing certain common tasks.

[johnclayton]

I should also note, there are some convenience methods for setting content/accepts types, via resource.contentType = RESTClientContentType<FOO>, but they are also guessed from the types of objects being sent/received and things like filename extensions.

[SeanLintern]

Thank You :D

[johnclayton]

Glad to help

[SeanLintern]

Hey, is there any way to see what i am sending to the server ? i have tried:

RCResource *posts = [site resource:@"/Json/GetNodes"];

[posts getWithCompletionBlock:^(RCResponse *response)
 {
     responseResult = response.result;
     NSLog(@"Sent: %@",posts.requests);

     NSLog(@"Response: %@",responseResult);
}

And i get the response but i would like to see the difference between what i send during a POST and GET ? .requests shows the ID and URL of request but i would like to see the actual payload/query ?

Thanks

[johnclayton]

There are a couple of ways you can get information about the request. You could install a preflight block on the resource which will run just before the request is started and gives you a chance to abort the request and/or inspect it before it is sent. Or, you can simply ask the response for its request in your completion block: response.request.payload, for example. Or, response.request.responseBody to get a string representation of the response data.

[SeanLintern]

Hmmm if i use payload i get a NULL in both response.request.payload and if i set up a preflight block i can get other info like headers and request but not payload :/

I am logging it with %@ this is correct ?

Thanks

[johnclayton]

And you are doing the post via one of the post.. methods, not the get method above, yes?

[SeanLintern]

Sorry i just realised i am but using query:(id) so i guess with GET the URL to be sent will just be my regular URL?

if so no matter what i put in query i get: "Expected Expression" error, i am tryign to just place a String in the as the query :/

[SeanLintern]

I have a post method which is working fine and am trying to work on my GET methods with query

[johnclayton]

Ok, so payload will never be set for a GET request, doing a get with a query will actually append the query to the URL for that particular request. If there is a specific query you are trying that is failing, send it over and we can add a test case to see what's up.

[SeanLintern]

Its not the query, its just that when trying to use:

[posts getWithCompletionBlock:^(RCResponse *response) query:myString {

i get an error on query:myString as expected expression :/

[johnclayton]

If that's the actual syntax you are using, you've interjected the query argument inside the block definition. It should be something like this:

[posts getWithCompletionBlock:^(RCResponse *response){...} query:myString];

[SeanLintern]

Ah thank you that works perfect

[johnclayton]

np

[SeanLintern]

I am a little amateur when it comes to web services, but as far as i understand the query is the part after the call i.e. service/json/myCall?Query=this&Query2=that
?
but if i use a string i get an error and if i use an array i get a null response, which makes me think it isnt sending correctly

[johnclayton]

Sorry, query is either an array or dictionary. See the documentation in the RCResource header for an explanation of the differences. You probably just want a dictionary.

[SeanLintern]

Hey, i just moved some files and am now getting this error:

Undefined symbols for architecture armv7:
"OBJC_CLASS$_RCResource", referenced from:
objc-class-ref in nodeTable.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture armv7
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

all files in my project are there, i.e. they do not have red names implying they are missing but i did remove the project then re-add it to my project and then this error happened...

Any ideas ?

[SeanLintern]

It seems that when i expanded frameworks folder inside RestClient some of the frameworks are missing, and i cant seem to find them :/

[SeanLintern]

Hmm i removed the project and re-added it and they are still red but the error has gone instead now i have cannot find xyz.h and have to add all DIRs manually to paths :/

[SeanLintern]

Ok now it is complaining about the missing libraries:

"library not found for -lCorePlot-CocoaTouch"

any idea ?

thanks