creating notification from connectionDidFinishLoading - ios

Question

In order to send HTTP request, I am using NSURLConnection like this:
NSURLConnection *connection = [[NSURLConnection alloc]
initWithRequest:request
delegate:self
startImmediately:YES];
At the end of connectionDidFinishLoading, I need to post different notifications, depending on the HTTP request that was just completed.
However inside connectionDidFinishLoading I don't have a clear logical identifier to the type of the request that was send:
- (void)connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection *)connection {
// here i want to post various notifications, depending on the HTTP request that was completed
}
What is the best solution here? Thanks!

Answer 1

Connection did finish method passes the NSURLConnection object, which has the request and url:
-(void)connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection *)connection {
NSLog(#"currentRequest: %#", connection.currentRequest);
NSLog(#"originalRequest: %#", connection.originalRequest);
// here do a if statement that compares url
if ([connection.currentRequest.URL.absoluteString isEqualToString:#"http://google.co.uk"]) {
NSLog(#"Equal to google");
// post notification
}
}

Answer 2

You can use framework like MKNetworkKit. In this framework you can write like this:
- (void) sendRequest: (NSString*) aRequestPath
httpMethod: (NSString*) aHttpMethod
paramsBlock: (SMFillParametersForRequestBlock) aParamsBlock
successBlock: (SMSaveRequestResultBlock) aSuccessBlock
errorBlock: (SMErrorRequestResultBlock) aErrorBlock
userInfo: (id) anUserInfo
{
MKNetworkEngine* network_engine= [[MKNetworkEngine alloc] initWithHostName: MuseumsHostName];
NSMutableDictionary* params = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
if (aParamsBlock)
{
aParamsBlock(params);
}
MKNetworkOperation* operation = [network_engine operationWithPath: aRequestPath
params: params
httpMethod: aHttpMethod
ssl: NO];
[operation onCompletion: ^(MKNetworkOperation* completedOperation){
// parse response of current request:
aSuccessBlock(completedOperation, anUserInfo, ...);
} onError: ^(NSError *error){
// error handler: call block
}];
[network_engine enqueueOperation: operation];
}
Believe me, this is the best solution