DownloadRestKit is a modern Objective-C framework for implementing RESTful web services clients on iOS and Mac OS X. It provides a powerful object mapping engine that seamlessly integrates with Core Data and a simple set of networking primitives for mapping HTTP requests and responses built on top of AFNetworking. It has an elegant, carefully designed set of APIs that make accessing and modeling RESTful resources feel almost magical. You can even access the Twitter public timeline and turn the JSON contents into an array of Tweet objects. RestKit is designed to be modular and each module strives to maintain a minimal set of dependencies across the framework and with the host platform. At the core of library sits the object mapping engine, which is responsible for transforming objects between representations (such as JSON/XML <-> local domain objects). The object mapping engine is built on top of the Key-Value Coding (KVC) informal protocol.
Features
- The mapper fully supports both simple attribute as well as relationship mappings
- Through relationship mappings, one object mapping can be added to another to compose aggregate mappings
- RestKit is broken into several modules that cleanly separate the mapping engine from the HTTP and Core Data integrations
- Map a client error response to an NSError
- Manage a queue of object request operations
- Configure core data integration with the object manager
Project Samples
