iOS Integrate Sendy API

Question

I am making an iPhone app that will need to communicate with the Sendy API. I believe that it uses some kind of JSON, but I'm not really sure, nor do I know where to start. I'm particularly interested in the subscribe portion of the API. Basically, I need to know how to talk to the Sendy API from my app.

Any help is appreciated.

My code:

- (IBAction)submitButtonPressed:(id)sender
{
    self.data = [[NSMutableData alloc] initWithLength:0];
    NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.erwaysoftware.com/sendy/subscribe"]];
    [request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
    [request setValue:@"[email protected]" forHTTPHeaderField:@"email"];
    [request setValue:@"john" forHTTPHeaderField:@"name"];
    [request setValue:@"LxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxQ" forHTTPHeaderField:@"list"];
    [request setValue:@"true" forHTTPHeaderField:@"boolean"];

    NSURLConnection *conn = [NSURLConnection connectionWithRequest:request delegate:self];
    [conn start];

}
- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveResponse:(NSURLResponse *)response {
    [self.data setLength:0];
}

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData *)d {
    [self.data appendData:d];
}

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didFailWithError:(NSError *)error {
    [[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:NSLocalizedString(@"Error", @"")
                                 message:[error localizedDescription]
                                delegate:nil
                       cancelButtonTitle:NSLocalizedString(@"OK", @"")
                       otherButtonTitles:nil] show];
}

- (void)connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection *)connection {
    NSString *responseText = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:self.data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

    // Do anything you want with it

    NSLog(@"%@", responseText);
}

When the log happens, the string is empty. I know through breakpoints that the last method is called.

Answer 1

Looking at the API it's all just plain text response.

Since it's a POST you can use an NSURLConnection to compose the request. See this question for information on formatting the response.

An alternative is to use something like AFNetworking or RestKit that might be a little more friendly if you're doing more work with APIs.