rahultir · HackerTrans

I don't get why so much negativity towards this. I have recently used this in a project where I was working on an iOS client to talk with a REST API based on JSON API.

I'm not sure about the server-side implementation, but using it client-side was a breeze. I managed to completely automate my web-service calls to automatically parse/generate the required JSON and update the resources client-side.

Then, all I had to do to interact with new resources was register resources client-side with it's mappings.

@interface ModelResource : NSObject

+ (NSString)resourceName; + (NSString)resourcePluralName;

- (void)createMappings;

- (void)addAttributeMapping:(NSString)attributeName toProperty:(NSString)propertyName;

- (void)addLinkMapping:(NSString)linkName toProperty:(NSString)propertyName withResourceName:(NSString)resourceName;

- (void)fromJSON:(NSDictionary)jsonData; - (NSDictionary)toJSON;

@end

@interface UserModel : ModelResource

@property (nonatomic, copy) NSString fullName; @property (nonatomic, copy) NSString firstName;

@property (nonatomic, weak) EmailModel emailAddress;

@end

@implementation UserModel

+ (NSString )resourceName { return @"user"; }

+ (NSString )resourcePluralName { return @"users"; }

- (void)createMappings { [super createMappings];

    [self addAttributeMapping:@"fullName" toProperty:STR_PROP(fullName)];
    [self addAttributeMapping:@"firstName" toProperty:STR_PROP(firstName)];

    [self addLinkMapping:@"emailAddress" toProperty:STR_PROP(emailAddress) withResourceName:[EmailModel resourceName]];

}

@end

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