[aerogear-dev] Object Serialization in iOS

[Tadeas Kriz]

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Tadeas Kriz
tkriz at redhat.com

On 26 Feb 2014, at 10:33, Corinne Krych <corinnekrych at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 26 Feb 2014, at 10:14, Christos Vasilakis <cvasilak at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi everyone,
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> +1
> This way we get closer to the AeroGear Android libs offer.
Yes, that’s something that was extremely painful when I used AeroGear-iOS compared to Android. The marshalling wouldn’t be difficult to implement even without the support in AFNetworking, I’ve looked at it and it seems way easier than in Java TBH.

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>> 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?
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> Sound good to me.
> could be great addition for 1.6
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>> Thanks,
>> Christos
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>> [1] https://github.com/gonzalezreal/Overcoat 
>> [2] https://github.com/dcaunt/Sculptor
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