RestKit 2 PUT request for some Object - ios

Question

Server team wants to separate out 2 PUT requests for one Item class like this -
PUT '<server>/item/:itemId'
and
PUT '<server>/item/:itemId/like'
I am using the following code in the initializer:
RKObjectManager *sharedRKObjectManager = [RKObjectManager sharedManager];
RKManagedObjectStore *managedObjectStore = [sharedRKObjectManager managedObjectStore];
// Create the mapping for the News entity.
RKEntityMapping *responseMapping = [RKEntityMapping mappingForEntityForName:ENTITY_ITEM inManagedObjectStore:managedObjectStore];
[responseMapping addAttributeMappingsFromDictionary:#{
#"id": #"itemId",
}];
// Create a response descriptor and add it to the RKObjectManager object.
RKResponseDescriptor *responseDescriptor = [RKResponseDescriptor responseDescriptorWithMapping:responseMapping
method:RKRequestMethodAny
pathPattern:UPDATE_ITEM_URL
keyPath:nil
statusCodes:RKStatusCodeIndexSetForClass(RKStatusCodeClassSuccessful)];
[sharedRKObjectManager.router.routeSet addRoute:[RKRoute routeWithClass:[Item class] pathPattern:UPDATE_ITEM_URL method:RKRequestMethodAny]];
[sharedRKObjectManager addResponseDescriptor:responseDescriptor];
And then the following is the call:
+(void)updateItem:(Item*)item
withParams:(NSDictionary*)params
success:(void (^)(RKObjectRequestOperation *operation, RKMappingResult *mappingResult))success
failure:(void (^)(RKObjectRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error))failure
{
[CMLRKSharedManager setUpHeaders];
[[RKObjectManager sharedManager] putObject:item path:nil parameters:params success:success failure:failure];
}
My ques is - can i use the same functions for these 2 requests? Can i append the url any other way?
TIA!

Answer 1

Just don't use the RKRoute in this case. Explicitly supply the appropriate path when you call put....
Note that you should also have 2 response descriptors because the path patterns are different.

Answer 2

in case it helps anyone.. here is the code to do this
NSString *path = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"item/%#/like", itemId];
[CMLRKSharedManager updateItem:item params:nil path:path success:^(RKObjectRequestOperation *operation, RKMappingResult *mappingResult) {
NSLog(#"Displaying user info %#", [mappingResult firstObject]);
} failure:nil];