SKProductRequest synchronous - cocoa

i start the product request already in a operation block
NSOperationQueue * queue = [[NSOperationQueue alloc] init];
[queue addOperationWithBlock:^{
SKProductsRequest * request= [[SKProductsRequest alloc] initWithProductIdentifiers: selectedSKIdentifiers];
request.delegate = self;
[request start];
}];
so i would like to use some synchronous version, like when downloading data
NSData * data = [[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:url];
or parsing XML is also synchronous
NSXMLParser * parser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:xmlData];
[parser setDelegate:self];
[parser parse];
[parser release];
Is there a way for to do the SKProductsRequest synchronous
The apple documentation luck on further info on this topic at this day

i found a way how to make any method synchronous :
// create the object that will perform an async operation
MyConnection *conn = [MyConnection new];
// create the semaphore and lock it once before we start
// the async operation
self.theLock = [NSConditionLock new];
// start the async operation
self.testState = 0;
[conn doItAsyncWithDelegate:self];
// now lock the semaphore - which will block this thread until
// [self.theLock unlockWithCondition:1] gets invoked
[self.theLock lockWhenCondition:1];
// we're done
[self.theLock release];
[conn release];
Make sure to invoke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[self.theLock unlockWithCondition:1];
In the delegate(s) then.

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Synchronous calling web API service for a generic method

I am using RestKit version 0.20.3 to make a generic method that is used in many other places. The problem is the returned value from that method is always nil because the "return location;" statement is executed BEFORE the Success call back function over the [objectManager getObjectsAtPath ...] method (see below codes).
I want the "return location;" statement must WAIT for the block variable "location" is filled with data from the Success call back function inside the [objectManager getObjectsAtPath ...] method. How can I do this?
Thank you for your help.
My generic method looks like:
-(KNSunGoogleLatitudeLongitudeGeometryLocation*)getSynchronouslyLatitudeLongitudeWithAddress:(NSString*)address
{
__block KNSunGoogleLatitudeLongitudeGeometryLocation* location = [[KNSunGoogleLatitudeLongitudeGeometryLocation alloc] init];
NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL URLWithString:#"http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api"];
AFHTTPClient * client = [AFHTTPClient clientWithBaseURL:baseURL];
[client setDefaultHeader:#"Accept" value:RKMIMETypeJSON];
RKObjectManager *objectManager = [[RKObjectManager alloc] initWithHTTPClient:client];
//1. KNSunGoogleLatitudeLongitudeGeometryLocation
RKObjectMapping *locationMapping = [RKObjectMapping mappingForClass:[KNSunGoogleLatitudeLongitudeGeometryLocation class]];
[locationMapping addAttributeMappingsFromArray:#[#"lat", #"lng"]];
//2. KNSunGoogleLatitudeLongitudeGeometry
RKObjectMapping *geometryMapping = [RKObjectMapping mappingForClass:[KNSunGoogleLatitudeLongitudeGeometry class]];
//3. KNSunGoogleLatitudeLongitude
RKObjectMapping *latLongMapping = [RKObjectMapping mappingForClass:[KNSunGoogleLatitudeLongitude class]];
//4. property/relationship mapping
[geometryMapping addPropertyMapping:[RKRelationshipMapping
relationshipMappingFromKeyPath:#"location"
toKeyPath:#"location"
withMapping:locationMapping]];
[latLongMapping addPropertyMapping:[RKRelationshipMapping
relationshipMappingFromKeyPath:#"geometry"
toKeyPath:#"geometry"
withMapping:geometryMapping]];
// 6. response
RKResponseDescriptor * responseDescriptor = [RKResponseDescriptor responseDescriptorWithMapping:latLongMapping
method:RKRequestMethodGET
pathPattern:nil
keyPath:#"results"
statusCodes:RKStatusCodeIndexSetForClass(RKStatusCodeClassSuccessful)];
// 7
[objectManager addResponseDescriptor:responseDescriptor];
NSDictionary *queryParams;
queryParams = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:address, #"address", #"false", #"sensor", nil];
// 6
[objectManager getObjectsAtPath:#"http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json"
parameters:queryParams
success:^(RKObjectRequestOperation * operaton, RKMappingResult *mappingResult)
{
//-----------
NSArray* results = [mappingResult array];
KNSunGoogleLatitudeLongitude* result0 = [results objectAtIndex:0];
KNSunGoogleLatitudeLongitudeGeometry* geometry = result0.geometry;
location= geometry.location;
NSLog(#"lat=%#, long=%#", location.lat, location.lng);
}
failure:^(RKObjectRequestOperation * operaton, NSError * error)
{
NSLog (#"failure: operation: %# \n\nerror: %#", operaton, error);
}];
return location; // note: ALWAYS RETURNs nil
}
You need to change what you want because it's a bad design. You should not block the requestor while the request is in progress. Instead you should pass a block to your general method that is executed from the block you pass to RestKit. This allows you to properly respect the asynchronous nature of the request.
If you did want to proceed with blocking, you could use look at using a semaphore. But, you would need to manage this yourself. And you wouldn't be able to trigger the request on the main thread - ever. These are significant hurdles to general usage and will probably cause you issues in the future.

NSURLConnection response not complete

I am making call to a server requesting JSON data using NSURLConnection.
For some reason I get part of the response. If I hit the url through the browser the response its correct. The weird thing is that it happens only sometime. So I'm having a hard time debugging the issue.
Then when because the response is not complete I get the following error:
Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3840 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (Cocoa error 3840.)" (Invalid value around character 0.) UserInfo=0xa4634a0 {NSDebugDescription=Invalid value around character 0.} {
NSDebugDescription = "Invalid value around character 0.";
}
I guess it could also be an issue with the server it self. Here's my code:
-(void) getShareHistory:(NSString *)range paging:(NSInteger *)page{
NSString *post = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"range=%#&paging=%#",
range,
[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%ld",(long)page]];
NSString *url = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"http://www/domai.com/handle_share_links.php?action=history"];
NSData *post_data = [post dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];
NSString *postLength = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d", [post_data length]];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init];
[request setCachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy];
[request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:url]];
[request setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
[request setValue:postLength forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Length"];
[request setValue:#"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Type"];
[request setHTTPBody:post_data];
self.shareHistoryConn = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request delegate:self];
}
- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData *)response{
NSString *strData = [[NSString alloc]initWithData:response encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
NSLog(#"response %#",strData);
NSError *jsonParsingError = nil;
if(connection == self.shareHistoryConn)
{
NSArray *data = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:response options:NSJSONReadingAllowFragments error:&jsonParsingError];
if(!jsonParsingError)
{
[[self delegate] onGetShareHistorySuccess:data];
}else{
[[self delegate] onGetShareHistoryFailed:jsonParsingError];
}
}
Thanks in advance.
What you're seeing is normal behavior. didReceiveData can be called any number of times. It is up to you to keep accumulating the data until you get connectionDidFinishLoading.
The standard delegate structure is like this:
- (void) connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection
didReceiveResponse:(NSURLResponse *)response {
// connection is starting, clear buffer
[self.receivedData setLength:0];
}
- (void) connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection
didReceiveData:(NSData *)data {
// data is arriving, add it to the buffer
[self.receivedData appendData:data];
}
- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection*)connection
didFailWithError:(NSError *)error {
// something went wrong, clean up interface as needed
}
- (void)connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection *)connection {
// all done, we are ready to rock and roll
// do something with self.receivedData
}
Always implement all four delegate methods.

Why does my code break for one call to this method, but not another?

I have a Mac application that is supposed to fetch Twitter followers and friends for a given username and then, in turn, ask Twitter for the user NAMES for each of those returned UserIDs. As you can see below, I have a method that will call the Twitter API to get friends/followers (which works fine). It is the userNameForUserID:delegate: method that is causing me problems. I used to do these requests synchronously and return the NSString for the username right then. That (now commented out) line always broke, so I tried doing it with an NSURLConnection asynchronously. Still doesn't work. I don't understand why
[[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:...] works for the fetchFollowers... method, but not when I do it the EXACT SAME way in the other...
I put a break point on the line that used to alloc init the NSString with contents of URL, and when I step into it, it doesn't break, return, throw an exception, crash...nothing. It's as if that line just got stepped over (but my application is still blocked.
Any ideas? Much appreciated!
NSString * const GET_FOLLOWERS = #"https://api.twitter.com/1/followers/ids.json?cursor=-1&screen_name=";
NSString * const GET_FRIENDS = #"https://api.twitter.com/1/friends/ids.json?cursor=-1&screen_name=";
NSString * const GET_USER_INFO = #"https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?user_id=";
#implementation TwitterAPI
+ (void)userNameForUserID:(NSNumber *)userID delegate:(id<UserNameDelegate>)delegate
{
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[GET_USER_INFO stringByAppendingString:[userID stringValue]]];
// NSString *JSON = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:url encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&error];
NSURLRequest *req = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
NSOperationQueue *queue = [[NSOperationQueue alloc] init];
[NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest:req queue:queue completionHandler:^(NSURLResponse *urlResponse, NSData *data, NSError *error) {
[delegate addUserNameToArray:data];
}];
}
+ (NSArray *)fetchFollowersWithUserName:(NSString *)userName
{
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[GET_FOLLOWERS stringByAppendingString:userName]];
NSArray *followerIDs;
NSString *JSON = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:url encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding error:nil];
if ([JSON rangeOfString:#"error"].location == NSNotFound)
followerIDs = [[JSON JSONValue] valueForKey:#"ids"];
return followerIDs;
}

NSDistantObject enumeration

I was make communication for client-server application and have strange problem.
here is a code where i pickup objects.
- (byref NSArray*)objectsOfName:(bycopy NSString*)name
withPredicate:(bycopy NSPredicate*)predicate;
{
NSManagedObjectContext *context = [self managedObjectContext];
NSError *error = nil;
NSFetchRequest *request = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
[request setEntity:[NSEntityDescription entityForName:name
inManagedObjectContext:context]];
[request setPredicate:predicate];
NSArray *results = [context executeFetchRequest:request error:&error];
[request release], request = nil;
if (error) {
NSLog(#"%#:%# Error on fetch %#", [self class], NSStringFromSelector(_cmd), error);
return nil;
}
//NSLog(#"%#:%# Result of fetch is %#", [self class], NSStringFromSelector(_cmd), results);
return results;
}
Here is pickup:
NSArray *destinations;
#ifdef SNOW_CLIENT
destinations = [server objectsOfName:#"DestinationsListWeBuy" withPredicate:predicate];
If i do
NSLog(#"Destination:%#\n",destinations);
i seen all objects in log.
If i try to do
NSLog(#"all:%#\n%#\n%#\n",[[destinations objectAtIndex:0] valueForKey:#"rate"],[[destinations objectAtIndex:0] valueForKey:#"lastUsedACD"],[[destinations objectAtIndex:0] valueForKey:#"lastUsedCallAttempts"]);
i seen attributes also.
But, if i try to do loop around objects:
for (NSManagedObject *dest in destinations)
{
NSLog(#"all:%#\n%#\n%#\n",[dest valueForKey:#"rate"],[dest valueForKey:#"lastUsedACD"],[dest valueForKey:#"lastUsedCallAttempts"]);
i have EXC_BAD_ACCESS in this part of code:
for (NSManagedObject *dest in destinations)
all debug technic, which i know, don't give me possibility to understand, what happened. (NSZombieEnabled = YES)
if i do loop at another manner:
for (NSUInteger count = 0;count < [destinations count]; count++)
NSLog(#"all:%#\n%#\n%#\n",[[destinations objectAtIndex:count] valueForKey:#"rate"],[[destinations objectAtIndex:count] valueForKey:#"lastUsedACD"],[[destinations objectAtIndex:count] valueForKey:#"lastUsedCallAttempts"]);
i seen all keys without exception. All nsmanagedobject's is subclassed.
If i need implement encodeWithCored method for all subclasses, examples is appreciated.
*UPDATE for Marcus *
This is how i receive objects from server side:
- (byref NSArray*)allObjects
{
NSPersistentStoreCoordinator *coordinator = [self persistentStoreCoordinator];
if (!coordinator) {
NSMutableDictionary *dict = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
[dict setValue:#"Failed to initialize the store" forKey:NSLocalizedDescriptionKey];
[dict setValue:#"There was an error building up the data file." forKey:NSLocalizedFailureReasonErrorKey];
NSError *error = [NSError errorWithDomain:#"YOUR_ERROR_DOMAIN" code:9999 userInfo:dict];
[[NSApplication sharedApplication] presentError:error];
return nil;
}
NSManagedObjectContext *moc = [[NSManagedObjectContext alloc] init];
[moc setPersistentStoreCoordinator:coordinator];
[moc setUndoManager:nil];
NSNotificationCenter *nc = [NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter];
[nc addObserver:self
selector:#selector(mergeChangesForClient:)
name:NSManagedObjectContextDidSaveNotification
object:thirdMOC];
NSFetchRequest *request = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];
NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:#"Carrier"
inManagedObjectContext:moc];
[request setEntity:entity];
[request setIncludesSubentities:YES];
NSError *error = nil;
NSArray *objects = [moc executeFetchRequest:request error:&error];
[request release], request = nil;
for (NSManagedObject *carrier in objects) {
NSSet *destinations = [carrier valueForKeyPath:#"destinationsListForSale"];
for (NSManagedObject *destination in destinations) [destination addObserver:self forKeyPath:#"rate" options:NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew context:nil];
}
if (error) {
NSLog(#"%#:%# error: %#", [self class], NSStringFromSelector(_cmd), error);
return nil;
}
return objects;
}
This is what i do with them on client side:
NSArray *allObjects = [server allObjects];
[carrierArrayController setContent:allObjects];
There is no serialization in this case. Any other ways (like send copy of server moc to client side doesn't work, it just generate exceptions on main.c).
p.s. many thanks to Marcus for his Core Data book.
unrecognized selector sent to class 0x1000a2ed8 2011-03-17 02:15:18.566 snowClient[19380:903] +[AppDelegate encodeWithCoder:]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0x1000a2ed8
That is not a core data problem. That is an error in your code where you are trying to call a method on an object that does not respond to that method. You need to track that down as it appears that you are trying to serialize your AppDelegate.
Update
What kind of class is 0x1000a2ed8? Break on the exception and print out the object to see what it is. Again, this is not a core data error directly, it is sending a messages to an object that does not respond to that message. It is possible that Core Data no longer allows you to send Managed objects across as distributed objects. It is possible that this is simply an issue with an over-released object. No way to know without further investigation.
Step one: Find out what object 0x1000a2ed8 is and see if the object changes from one run to the next.

ASIHTTPRequest problems on iPhone (memory?)

I am using ASIHTTPRequest on the iPhone to make a call to the server, which then sends a response containing a JSON file. I got it working on a basic level, but when I added it to my project, and made a call to the server, my app started crashing with bad_access.
I make the call from viewDidLoad as such:
requestModel = [[RequestModel alloc]init];
NSURL *url = [[NSURL URLWithString:#"myURL"]retain];
[requestModel eventsRequestFor:#"myUsername" password:#"myPassword" forURL:url];
This calls a function in another class called RequestModel, and I go through and try to unpack the returned array as such (a lot of code):
-(void)eventsRequestFor:(NSString*)username password:(NSString*)password forURL:(NSURL*)forURL {
//use ASIHTTPRequest to post to sever. Here you authenticate and recieve answer
ASIHTTPRequest *request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:forURL];
[request setUsername:username];
[request setPassword:password];
[request setDelegate:self];
[request setDidFailSelector:#selector(uploadFailed:)];
[request setDidFinishSelector:#selector(uploadFinished:)];
[request startAsynchronous];
[request release];
NSLog(#"Model called");
}
#pragma mark Model Delegates
- (void)uploadFinished:(ASIHTTPRequest *)request {
// Use when fetching text data
NSLog(#"upload start");
NSString *stringFromRequest = [[NSString alloc]init];
stringFromRequest = [request responseString];
[self buildArrayFromRequest:stringFromRequest];
//[stringFromRequest release];
}
- (void)uploadFailed:(ASIHTTPRequest *)request {
NSString *statusMessage = [request responseStatusMessage];
NSLog(#"%#",statusMessage);
NSError *error = [request error];
NSLog(#"%#",error);
}
-(void)buildArrayFromRequest:(NSString*)string {
NSArray *arrayFromData = [[NSArray alloc]init];
arrayFromData = [string yajl_JSON];
NSLog(#"This is the array from the JSON %#",[arrayFromData objectAtIndex:0]);
NSMutableArray *events = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for(int i= 0; i < [arrayFromData count];i++)
{
/////code to unpack array
}
///here i try to populate table with unpacked array
FirstViewController *firstVC = [[FirstViewController alloc]init];
[firstVC createTableWithArray:events];
[firstVC release];
[arrayFromData release];
[events release];
}
Any ideas on where I am going wrong? It seems like I am releasing an object that has already been released, but I can't find it.
EDIT: You're releasing an NSData that's not yours.
You don't need this line :
[arrayFromData release];
because of this mistake :
You have put :
NSArray *arrayFromData = [[NSArray alloc]init];
arrayFromData = [string yajl_JSON];
when all you need is this :
NSArray *arrayFromData = [string yajl_JSON]; // This doesn't need releasing
You're releasing a request that's already autoreleased :(
// Create an autoreleased request object
ASIHTTPRequest *request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:forURL];
...
[request release]; // fail here - this line is not needed
Just FYI :
This is unneeded code :
NSString *stringFromRequest = [[NSString alloc]init];
stringFromRequest = [request responseString];
You are making a string object and then getting a different one. The first one you're making will be leaked. This code will do what you want :
NSString *stringFromRequest = [request responseString]; // This doesn't need releasing :)
However, it's the cause of a leak, not the crash that you are reporting.
(You've got this pattern in other places in your code, not just here.)

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