[aerogear-dev] Object Serialization in iOS

[Daniel Passos]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Corinne Krych <corinnekrych at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On 26 Feb 2014, at 10:14, Christos Vasilakis <cvasilak at gmail.com> 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
> >
>
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