[aerogear-dev] Object Serialization in iOS

[Sebastien Blanc]

+1 !


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Daniel Passos <daniel at passos.me> wrote:

> 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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