Re: [aerogear-dev] Object Serialization in iOS

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Corinne Krych <corinnekrych(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote: > > On 26 Feb 2014, at 10:14, Christos Vasilakis <cvasilak(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > we are currently working on updating our underlying networking library > to rely on the AFNetworking 2.x branch. What is more interesting of this > change, is that the new library supports the concept of 'pluggable' > serializers, both in the request and in the response. In other words, a > plugin a can be written (and attached) to automatically convert your object > model to JSON (or XML, etc) and back, upon request/response. Although it > could have been in earlier versions, it was a pain and hacky, making the > new version attractable for this operation. Interesting enough, this > spanked many projects[1][2] that take advantage of this ability. > > > > Currently in iOS, we deal with generic dictionary objects, which > although have their flexibility, I think it will make life easier for our > developers, to make use of their object model directly during operations. > > +1 > This way we get closer to the AeroGear Android libs offer. > +9001 > > > After the AFnet 2.x merge and our 1.5 release, what do you think on > creating such a plugin and making necessary adjustments to our API? > > Sound good to me. > could be great addition for 1.6 > > > > > Thanks, > > Christos > > > > > > [1] https://github.com/gonzalezreal/Overcoat > > [2] https://github.com/dcaunt/Sculptor > > > _______________________________________________ aerogear-dev mailing list aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev