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consuming restful web service in iOS 5

#import <RestKit/RestKit.h>

@interface MonitorViewController : UIViewController <RKRequestDelegate>

       

RKClient* client = [RKClient clientWithBaseURL:@"http://192.168.2.3:8000/DataRecorder/ExternalControl"];

NSLog(@"I am your RKClient singleton : %@", [RKClient sharedClient]);

[client get:@"/json/get_Signals" delegate:self];

       

- (void) request: (RKRequest *) request didLoadResponse: (RKResponse *) response {

    if ([request isGET]) {        

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

    }

}

 

- (void) request:(RKRequest *)request didFailLoadWithError:(NSError *)error

{

    NSLog (@"Retrieved an error");  

}

 

- (void) requestDidTimeout:(RKRequest *)request

{

    NSLog(@"Did receive timeout");

}

 

- (void) request:(RKRequest *)request didReceivedData:(NSInteger)bytesReceived totalBytesReceived:(NSInteger)totalBytesReceived totalBytesExectedToReceive:(NSInteger)totalBytesExpectedToReceive

{

    NSLog(@"Did receive data");

}

       

// create the parameters dictionary for the params that you want to send with the request

NSDictionary* paramsDictionary = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: @"00003",@"SignalId", nil];

// send your request

RKRequest* req = [client post:@"your/resource/path" params:paramsDictionary delegate:self];

// set the userData property, it can be any object

[req setUserData:@"SignalId = 00003"];

       

- (void)request:(RKRequest *)request didLoadResponse:(RKResponse *)response {

    // check which request is responsible for the response

    // to achieve this, you can do two things

    // check the parameters of the request like this

    NSLog(@"%@", [request URL]); // this will print your request url with the parameters

    // something like http://myamazingrestservice.org/resource/path?SignalId=00003

    // the second option will work if your request is not a GET request

    NSLog(@"%@", request.params); // this will print paramsDictionary

    // or you can get it from userData if you decide to go this way

    NSString* myData = [request userData];

    NSLog(@"%@", myData); // this will log "SignalId = 00003" in the debugger console

}