I would like to add text to my app so when ever I want to change the text in Xcode, the text will also change for the user. From my understanding so far, if I want to change a UILabel, I would have to submit it to the AppStore again and the user would have to update the app in order to see the UILabel text change.
Is it possible for me to add text on the app when ever I want and it will update for the user automatically?
First you should consider the solution, that will be connecting your app to certain API service.
In other words, the service that will bring fresh data to your app, will be an API, that your code will connect to. After connection and getting response from server, data from it will be transferred to the user interface of your application.
For example - your code will be set to make requests from your app using URL, looking like this:
http://example.com/api/request/?id=100
For better imagination, if you would like to check, what this URL returns, you would type that URL to your browser. It would return some output - for example JSON, something like this:
{"label": "This is title"}
So your app (after some action, for example when a view is shown or a user taps a button) will establish connection to this URL, to be able to get this output and process it. So it will await some structure, that is needed to read by your program. In this case, the structure is a format of an output, that is JSON.
Then, your code will parse this output and gets result. So the result would be "This is title" and your UILabel would be updated with "This is title".
For URL connections and sessions, using swift3, the best choice to use is an Alamofire framework:
https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire
And this is very useful tutorial:
https://www.raywenderlich.com/121540/alamofire-tutorial-getting-started.
It explain, how to get an access to a service, that is capable to prepare your output (e.g. JSON), because your app will need to connect to it.
This tutorial is a solid guide, how to create a service like that.
You have to implement web services for this where your app will read data from some server, programmatically. And using this you can update your any type of data. I would suggest to read more about Objective C Basic, Web services, AFNNetworking, NSURLSession and all.
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We are trying to use Cobalt (20.stable) browser as the browser of our web SPA application.
My requirement is to be able to change URL at runtime, what I was able to find in the code:
Is:
starboard::shared::starboard::Application::Link(const char* link_data)
which ends up sending:
kSbEventTypeLink
Unfortunately this is not working, as code is ignoring the call; the handling reaches the point:
// TODO: Remove this when terminal application states are properly handled.
if (deep_link_event->IsH5vccLink()) {
browser_module_->Navigate(GURL(deep_link_event->link()));
}
In my case I m trying to change the URL to let say https://www.example.com.
There should be a way to do that as when navigating we can always have a link that will cause the browser to go to some URL?
Porting layer is not supposed to control navigation directly. Instead, your Starboard implementation may send a deep link event which could be intercepted by a web app which will perform a navigation. See h5vcc_runtime.idl for Web API.
That said, if you are building an SPA, why do you even need to change a URL? Initial URL of a web app is controlled by --url command line switch.
When you say runtime are you looking to change the initial URL when the app is first launched? If so, you could just use the --url parameter.
So you could do the following:
cobalt --url="https://www.example.com"
I did a patch to allow changing the URL.
I just need to call starboard::shared::starboard::Application::Link("https://www.example.com").
Inside this call a DeepLinkEvent is posted.
Patch : https://gofile.io/?c=9GvNHX
Cobalt does not navigate for you. The JavaScript receives the deeplink with the function it sets on h5vcc.runtime.onDeepLink and then does whatever it wants with that. As a SPA, it will parse the URL and load new content from its server in its own internal data format (e.g. protocol buffers, JSON, etc.) which it uses to update its own DOM to show new content.
Navigating is not the point of a SPA since that makes it not be a single page application. However, there may be cases such as a loader app that will want to make some initial decisions then load the actual SPA. That loader app would have to have the appropriate CSP rules in place, then set window.location to the URL of the page to navigate to.
Note: The code you found in Application::OnDeepLinkEvent() is a remnant that previously supported the H5vccURLHandler, which was removed in Cobalt 20. It's not meant to navigate to arbitrary deeplinks.
I'm creating a web application using parse and have found that in order for a user to authenticate I need to make all requests using HTTPS. I'm able to switch this over and get it to work correctly, but when I do I get all kinds of mixed content errors because I'm retrieving PFFile objects which only return a non-secure URL.
This wouldn't even be a huge concern with Chrome or Safari but of course IE needs to present a message to the user and block all this content. Are there any potential work arounds? Why can't parse just put a setting in the app to enable files to be served from a secure url? This seems completely ridiculous. How do people get around this? Are you completely avoiding the use of PFFile?
Replace http:// with https://s3.amazonaws.com/.
So if you start with this:
http://files.parsetfss.com/b05e3211-bf8b-.../tfss-fa825f28-e541-...-jpg
The final url will look something like this:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.parsetfss.com/b05e3211-bf8b-.../tfss-fa825f28-e541-...-jpg
I'm trying to build my Parse iOS project in a way that'll be more easy to migrate later on for the client should he desire it.
To that end, I'm trying to use the REST API instead of relying on PFUser and PFObjects.
But I love the PFLoginViewController-- it's such a time saver. Is there a way I can use that pre-built login/sign-up flow with the REST API instead of PFUser?
I don't think that u could use it without PFUser but u could create similar to that and time will be consumed.
Still One thing might work out, check this link and I hope you have already but this will show how to integrate the PFLoginViewcontroller so in that they have logInView which will provide you access to all component like loginButton, usernameTextField, passTextField and etc. So you could access to these component your own explicit component.
Like, you could create your own UIButton(namely, logInBtn with action selector and all) then access it to logInView.LogInButton = logInBtn(your own button) and in this button's action you could make Rest api calls for login, and similarly for other component which needs to be modified for your requirement.
Im pretty new to struts2 and Ajax ,Actually i have a drop down menu in JSP lets say first.jsp, When user select a choice from dropdown menu,I am calling a function of Action class lets say Method1.In this method i am fetching some value from DB(lets say:a,b,c) and one value from java memory lets say d.Then I am forwarding to second.jsp and display all the parameters(a,b,c and d) in tabular format.
Now problem is that the parameter d is dynamic ,this is updating by some other application and if its change then I have to show it on JSP wihout any action.
One solution is I use in second.jsp , so after interval of 10 second again Mehod1 will call and it will fetch value(a,b,c) from db and updated value of d from java memory. and disply it to second.jsp.But in this case i am unnecessary retrieving value from db while my purpose is just to get value d from memory.This is working but this is causing my application to slower.
Can any body suggetst some other solution? or can i do it using ajax and how?
Any other advice? any help is appreciated.try to be more clear, i'm in lack of ideas in this problem, even it sounds like a classic :I have spend hours trying to play around with this but have got nowhere
Okay... What you're asking is a little fuzzy so let me rephrase:
You have a user (USER1) who opens a web page and sees some data.
You have a second user (USER2) (who may be an application) who is able set a value from time to time.
When USER2 updates that value you want USER1 to see it change in their open browser window?
If this is the case you need to understand basic ajax. For that get these demo applications working:
This example uses dojo and perhaps the S2 ajax tag lib I don't remember I prefer not to use ajax tags (as they are deprecated and prefer jquery for ajax):
http://struts.apache.org/2.x/docs/struts-2-spring-2-jpa-ajax.html
This example here shows a very similar application but using jquery, no tag library, upgraded to Spring 3, it still needs polish:
http://www.kenmcwilliams.com/Downloads/
Now that you know how to get data via ajax, look at the request with firebug. You'll see that the request is just like a typical function call, the browser keeps waiting for the data to come back.
What you do is simply not return from the action until new data is provided. This is called long polling see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_%28programming%29#Ajax_with_long_polling
If you have not written a simple chat program, using just terminal windows I recommend you do so. Two windows per client (client-send, client-receive windows) and you'll need a server program. I remember hacking one together in a few hours using _Thinking In Java 2nd Edition (Later books took out the networking section if I remember correctly). Anyways between understanding client server interaction and long polling will let you get things working. It would be fun to extend the simple terminal based chat application to a S2 ajax chat application. Would make an awesome tutorial! PS: This is just an application of the producer/consumer problem (If you understand that then I guess you don't need to do the fun exercise).
The interfaces would look very pretty if the server was managed by spring. I know there must be nice servers already written but I am not familiar with any, but would love to hear of one.
I'm new and just developing on J2EE.
I am modifying an existing application (an OpenSource project).
I need to save an image on a client sent by the server, but I do not know how.
This activity must be done in a transparent manner without affecting the existing operation of the application.
From the tests done I get this error:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: getWriter () has Already Been Called for this response.
How should carry out this task, according to your own opinion?
How do I save on the client, locally, the image?
Update:
Thanks for the answers.
My problem is that:
the image is generated on the server, but not for direct client request (there is no link to click on web page), the picture is composed using other services on the Internet.
reconstruct the image on the server.
This image must be sent to the client to be saved locally.
so I'd like it to appear a window where you assign the destination image
plus I'd like the rest of the application were not affected by this activity.
The application is yet on production.
Thank you very much for your response.
From the tests done I get this error: java.lang.IllegalStateException: getWriter () has Already Been Called for this response.
In other words, you were trying to mix the binary data of the image with the character data of the HTML output, or you were trying to do this in a JSP instead of a Servlet. This is indeed not going to work. You need to send either the image or the HTML page exclusively in response to fully separate requests.
In your JSP/HTML page just have a link to the image, like so:
click to download image
Then, in a servlet listening on an url-pattern of /imageservlet/*, you just get the image as InputStream from some datasource (e.g. from local disk file system as FileInputStream) and then write it to the OutputStream of the response the usual Java IO way.
You only need to set at least the Content-Disposition response header to attachment to make sure that the client get a Save As popup dialogue, else it will be displayed straight in the browser. Setting the Content-Type and Content-Length are also important so that the browser knows what the server is sending and can predict how long the download may take.
response.setHeader("Content-Type", getServletContext().getMimeType(file.getName()));
response.setHeader("Content-Length", String.valueOf(file.length()));
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=\"" + file.getName() + "\"");
You can find complete basic servlet example in this article.
Note: you cannot control where the client would save the image, this would be a security hole. This way websites would be able to write malicious files on client's disk unaskingly.
Update: as per your update, there are two options:
You need to let the client itself fire two HTTP requests (I've answered this in your subsequent question)
Create a client side application which does all the task directly at the client side and then embed this in your webpage, for example a Java Applet. With an applet you have full control over the client environment. You can execute almost all Java code you'd like to execute and you can write files to disk directly without asking client for the location to save. You only need to sign the applet by a 3rd party company or the client needs to confirm a security warning before running.
Its up to the browser how all types of output are handled. Web pages are given a content type of html which the browser understands and ends up rendering ass a page that we can see. Images are given content type of image/jpeg etc which are rendered as images when in a page etc. To force a download prompt one needs to use a content type of a binary file rather than that of an image so the browser forces the download rather than shows the image. To ensure this use something like "application/octetstream"... i cant recall exactly but its easy to google for.