I am creating an App for iOS/Andriod using appery.io (basically a phonegap type website that uses a WYSIWYG) that will basically be a calendar for upcoming TV episodes. Users will select the shows they want to watch and the calendar/list in the App will be populated with the upcoming episodes.
For this, I am trying to use an api called thetvdb.com. However, I have only basic knowledge of databases and even less with API usage. Thetvdb has some documentation for using their API, however, it is difficult to understand and translate into the appery.io form I am using to get requests.
Using their API requires a key, which I already have. I am just not sure what to put for the settings, and request fields. The main one I need to figure out is the URL under settings first. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Settings:
URL:
Method:
Data Type:
Content Type:
Request:
Not even sure what parameters to use.
Thetvdb.com Documentation (http://www.thetvdb.com/wiki/index.php/Programmers_API)
The appery.io video tutorial I am following (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_iGKRPPsRc&list=PLdUnWwhvJspZXXuozUbly21FBh9AywSa6)
You can using AFNetworking framework. It is easy to use for communication with API.
With GET method, we can do:
AFHTTPRequestOperationManager *manager = [AFHTTPRequestOperationManager manager];
[manager GET:#"http://example.com/resources.json" parameters:nil
success:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {
NSLog(#"JSON: %#", responseObject);
} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
NSLog(#"Error: %#", error);
}];
For more information, please read on this website.
https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking
Related
I have two queries;
1- How can i get user's tagged videos as the below request to Graph API returns me nil on request :( and i have spend about thousands of minutes on searching for this issue but did not find the accurate answer or reason of this issue.
FBSDKGraphRequest *request = [[FBSDKGraphRequest alloc]
initWithGraphPath:#"me/videos/tagged"
parameters:nil
HTTPMethod:#"GET"];
[request startWithCompletionHandler:^(FBSDKGraphRequestConnection *connection, id result, NSError *error) {
// Insert your code here
NSLog(#"Result is:%#",result);
}];
2- How to make a call for user's saved videos on Facebook to Graph API?
I am Running FB SDK Version 4.20.2 and Graph API version 2.9.
Currently I am using a test account for this purpose and all videos are public.
I have an existing database up and running on the remote MS SQL server, and I want to be able to communicate and interact with that database from Xcode. I am writing an application for OS X in Swift, and the data that the application should use, is stored in that remote database.
The problem is, I can't seem to find any Swift library that could connect to the MS SQL server based database. So far, I have only found this open-source library: SQLClient in Objective-C, but it's quite difficult to have it set, especially as I am not familiar with the Objective-C.
Also, I keep seeing this Core-Data library being mentioned anytime there is some communication with the database, but as far as I understand Core-Data doesn't know how to connect to the MS SQL database.
Does anyone have any experience in connecting the Xcode Swift app to the remote MS SQL database? How should one do this? Any kind of advice is more than welcome, because right now I am kind of stuck with this problem.
The ideal way is to write webservices in any serverside language such as php, asp etc. The webservices will communicae with your mysql database and you swift code will communicate to the webservices.
I suggest to write a webservice with php for example to consume mysql data and provide a json/xml response : this is an example of code that can help you to getdata from Database and parse it to json .
function getOneAdminByUserName($cin){
require('connect.php');
//fetch table rows from mysql db
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `admin` WHERE cin= '".$cin."'";
$result = mysqli_query($connection, $sql) or die("Error in Selecting " . mysqli_error($connection));
if(mysqli_num_rows($result)>0){
$myArray = array();
while($row =mysqli_fetch_assoc($result))
{
array_push( $myArray , $row);
}
return json_encode($myArray);
//return json_encode(mysqli_fetch_assoc($result));
}
else{
return "no";
}
Then you can consume service on your ios app with AFnetworking
NSURL *URL = [NSURL URLWithString:#"http://example.com/resources/123.json"];
AFHTTPSessionManager *manager = [AFHTTPSessionManager manager];
[manager GET:URL.absoluteString parameters:nil progress:nil success:^(NSURLSessionTask *task, id responseObject) {
NSLog(#"JSON: %#", responseObject);
} failure:^(NSURLSessionTask *operation, NSError *error) {
NSLog(#"Error: %#", error);
}];
It's really bad for an application (mobile, web, any client) to directly have access to any database for security issues. Clients really should not be accessing the database, which is often holding very private/secure data. It opens up vulnerabilities (i.e., sql injection attack).
A set of web services written in php or java or some back-end technology is a more secure, scalable system. These web services can connect to the database and retrieve data. Your iOS application can call the web services and receive the data..for example in the form of XML or JSON.
So better you to use webservice.
Also coredata can use below 4 persistant store
I'm new to objective-c and i'm having a hard time with a AFNetworking.
So the thing is that i want to make a simple POST request to a server who will send me back a salt.
I'v make a simple app, in order to test my request but i don't understand why i'm getting the error code 999.
Here a sample of my code.
+ (void)simpleRequest; {
NSURL *mailserver = [NSURL URLWithString:#"https://localhost:4443/"];
AFHTTPSessionManager *manager = [[AFHTTPSessionManager alloc]initWithBaseURL:mailserver];
manager.securityPolicy.allowInvalidCertificates = TRUE;
manager.responseSerializer = [AFJSONResponseSerializer serializer];
manager.requestSerializer = [AFJSONRequestSerializer serializer];
NSDictionary *parameters = #{#"username": #"testtest"};
[manager POST:#"api/v0/login/salt" parameters:parameters success:^(NSURLSessionDataTask *operation, id responseObject) {
NSLog(#"JSON: %#", responseObject);
} failure:^(NSURLSessionDataTask *operation, NSError *error) {
NSLog(#"Error: %#", error);
}];
}
I' have link this code to a simple Button which's calling this function.
I have an other app, in ruby motion which's work fined with this function i can get the response without any error. But with this simple app i can't do any request, they all returned this error code 999.
Error: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-999 "cancelled"
UserInfo={NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://localhost:4443/api/v0/login/salt,
NSLocalizedDescription=cancelled,
NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=https://localhost:4443/api/v0/login/salt}
So i'm really wondering what i'm doing wrong, anyone can help me on this ?
Thanks
EDIT:
Is it the good way for saving the manager in a property or am i doing something wrong ?
If it's the good way, this seems to not work
Thanks for the help
.h file
#property (nonatomic, retain) AFHTTPSessionManager *session;
.m file
#synthesize session;
- (IBAction)log:(id)sender {
NSURL *mailserver = [NSURL URLWithString:#"https://localhost:4443/"];
self.session = [[AFHTTPSessionManager alloc]initWithBaseURL:mailserver];
self.session.securityPolicy.allowInvalidCertificates = TRUE;
self.session.responseSerializer = [AFJSONResponseSerializer serializer];
self.session.requestSerializer = [AFJSONRequestSerializer serializer];
NSDictionary *parameters = #{#"username": #"testtest"};
[self.session POST:#"api/v0/login/salt" parameters:parameters success:^(NSURLSessionDataTask *operation, id responseObject) {
NSLog(#"JSON: %#", responseObject);
} failure:^(NSURLSessionDataTask *operation, NSError *error) {
NSLog(#"Error: %#", error);
}];
In my case iOS 10 SDK's caused AFNetworking error code -999. If you're trying to reach a server that has SSL and you don't want to check it out, add some privacy Policy to Afnetworking
AFSecurityPolicy *securityPolicy = [AFSecurityPolicy policyWithPinningMode:AFSSLPinningModeNone];
securityPolicy.allowInvalidCertificates = YES;
[securityPolicy setValidatesDomainName:NO];
That's error -999, not 999. That is NSURLErrorCancelled. Your request has been cancelled before it can be completed.
Looking at your code, you aren't retaining the AFHTTPSessionManager *manager anywhere. This means that the manager will be disposed as soon as +simpleRequest returns. I'm guessing that this is what is cancelling your request.
You need to save the manager so that it lives for the full duration of the request. Save it in a property somewhere.
In my case iOS 9 SDK's "App transport security" cause AFNetworking error code : -999.
If you're trying to reach a server that doesn't have a SSL add keys like screenshot below.
I noticed that your API endpoint indicates to a secure connection:
httpS://localhost:4443/api/v0/login/salt
Just try it just in case, maybe it repeats your situation.
In my case, this was a typo in the API manager code. Which from the part can be said is connected with App Transport Security Settings.
Just changed the protected protocol from httpS:// to http:// and the error:
NSURLErrorDomain Code = -999 "cancelled"
was gone and it all worked!
+And also if you had a similar problem. Be sure to discuss this with a backend specialist who deals with the server or API configuration for your application. This means that the server does not have valid security certificates. Perhaps you still need a secure connection. Or this specialist can again configure everything back from http:// to httpS://, and I'm not sure (did not check) whether this will work again when in the code you are already using a non-secure http:// connection.
[Original OP question may not mention Cordova but this link was very high in the search result when Googling this issue]
For my Cordova project (or similar), turns out it was a plugin issue. Make sure you're not missing any plugins and make sure they're installed properly without issue.
Easiest way to verify this is simply to start fresh by recreating the Cordova project (cordova create <path>) along with the required platforms (cordova platform add <platform name>) and add each plugin with the verbose flag (--verbose) so that you can see if anything went wrong in the console log while the plugin is being downloaded, added to project and installed for each platform (cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-device --verbose)
Recap:
cordova create <path>
cordova platform add <platform name>
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-device --verbose
I want to send max. 100 images in a single request to my server. Simple image upload works fine for me.
But I want to create a stream of data with AFNetworking 2.0 api. So, I want to ask that How I can create a newtwork stream with my image data.
Also, This stream should work in background mode of the app also & images should upload on the server in background mode of the app. How can I achieve this with AFNetworking 2.0 library?
Any suggestions will be helpful.
I do not think it is a good idea but I will answer your question to let you decide yourself.
AFAIK there are only two ways to send 100 images with a single request:
Bind them in a single file, for example zip them
Use multipart/form-data
First approach is quite obvious :) Let's talk about the second one.
Create a multipart request with AFNetworking:
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[AFHTTPRequestSerializer serializer]
multipartFormRequestWithMethod:#"POST"
URLString:[url absoluteString]
parameters:nil
constructingBodyWithBlock:^(id<AFMultipartFormData> formData)
{
for (NSURL *imageUrl in imageURLsArray)
[formData appendPartWithFileURL:imageUrl name:[imageUrl lastPathComponent] error:nil];
}
error:nil];
Save request body to a file because background uploading is supported only for files, not for streams or data in a memory:
NSURL *fileURL = create url for a temporary file
[[AFHTTPRequestSerializer serializer]
requestWithMultipartFormRequest:request
writingStreamContentsToFile:fileURL
completionHandler:(void (^)(NSError *error))
{
NSMutableURLRequest *newRequest = [request mutableCopy];
newRequest.HTTPBodyStream = nil;
// Here you can start background uploading of file fileURL using newRequest request
}];
How to upload a file in background you can find for example here AFNetworking 2.0 and background transfers or here http://www.objc.io/issue-5/multitasking.html
I'd advise against a single request uploading 100 images because if it fails, the entire request fails. I'd be inclined to do individual requests. A single request may have an intuitive appeal because it is simpler, but it's going to be less graceful in the presence of network interruptions.
In terms of doing background uploads with AFNetworking, see AFNetworking 2.0 and background transfers, which walks through a few of the considerations (using AFHTTPSessionManager instead of AFHTTPRequestOperationManager, writing the necessary app delegate methods to capture background session completion handler, the fact that you cannot use task-specific completion block handlers, etc.).
Note, you will want to create upload tasks that upload a file. This means that if your web service is expecting a multipart/formdata request, that you should stage these requests to a file (see Avt's answer) and then supply that as the file parameter of the upload request. This not only is compatible with background sessions, but it has a minimal peak memory usage profile (which I assume was your intent behind your comment about wanting a stream-based request).
#Nirmit, you can upload larger number of images using multipart uploading. kindly followed the link. https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking.
while uploading set of images, you need to set timeout limit at your end as well as server end at max level. also you need to provide background running support. incase user enter in background mode.
In multipart request form:
you need to add for-loop of images instead of single image. here i added modification of multipart request form.
AFHTTPRequestOperationManager *manager = [AFHTTPRequestOperationManager manager];
NSDictionary *parameters = #{#"foo": #"bar"};
[manager POST:#"http://example.com/resources.json" parameters:parameters constructingBodyWithBlock:^(id<AFMultipartFormData> formData) {
for(int i=0:i<1000:i++){
NSURL *filePath = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:arrayImages[i]];
[formData appendPartWithFileURL:filePath name:#"image" error:nil];
}
} success:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {
NSLog(#"Success: %#", responseObject);
} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
NSLog(#"Error: %#", error);
}];
I'm interested in integrating the Imgur API into my app, and it states that in order to get image information (basically the extent of what I need right now) I just need to register my app, no need to log in with user information or anything.
Great, I'm using AFOAuth2Client (specifically this pull request so it works with AFNetworking 2.0). I have my client key and client secret, but I can't seem to figure out how to get to an image.
I try the following code (personal API details removed):
AFOAuth2Client *oauthClient = [AFOAuth2Client clientWithBaseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"https://api.imgur.com/"] clientID:#"---" secret:#"---"];
[oauthClient authenticateUsingOAuthWithURLString:#"https://api.imgur.com/oauth2/authorize" parameters:nil success:^(AFOAuthCredential *credential) {
NSLog(#"Yes");
} failure:^(NSError *error) {
NSLog(#"No");
}];
But I always get No outputted. How do I properly authenticate so I can then make calls to the API to get information about an image? (As detailed here.)
As I've been told I don't need OAuth period, I tried the following with AFNetworking 2.0 (to no avail):
AFHTTPRequestOperationManager *operationManager = [AFHTTPRequestOperationManager manager];
[operationManager POST:#"https://api.imgur.com/3/image/1Nf1quS" parameters:#{#"Authorization": #"Client-ID myactualclientidisremoved"} success:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {
NSLog(#"success");
} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
NSLog(#"failure");
}];
First, the example is using Imgur API v2 which is old and unsupported. You should be using API v3.
Also note that:
For public read-only and anonymous resources, such as getting image info, looking up user comments, etc. all you need to do is send an authorization header with your client_id in your requests.
from docs at https://api.imgur.com/oauth2 -- so you don't really need OAuth for what you're doing.
There is some example Imgur API code that might help you, listed at https://api.imgur.com/ -- the Android example might be more relevant to you, since it uses Java, but unsurprisingly it comes with all the overhead of an Android project, compared with a plain Java application.