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RestKit base URL - directory following domain name

I'm trying to set my base URL for RestKit as http://example.com/api like so:

// initialize AFNetworking HTTPClient
NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://example.com/api"];
AFHTTPClient *client = [[AFHTTPClient alloc] initWithBaseURL:baseURL];

// initialize RestKit
RKObjectManager *objectManager = [[RKObjectManager alloc] initWithHTTPClient:client];
[RKObjectManager setSharedManager:objectManager];

However for some reason it only saves the domain http://example.com as the base URL and no following directories after it.

I can simply prepend /api in front of all my API path calls (e.g. /api/events/active instead of /events/active), but it would be a lot easier if I were to eventually work with different versions of the API like (e.g. /v1). Ideally I would be able to just change the base URL and not so much all the individual paths. Any ideas why I can't set the base URL correctly?

Thanks much! -Ryan

SOLVED:

Base URL was previously stored as "http://example.com/api" and path was "/events".

Thanks to Paul's answer below the correct way is to store base URL as "http://example.com/api/" and path as "events".

Solution

  • Under the hood AFHTTPClient uses -[NSURL URLWithString:relativeToURL:] to construct your URLs. If you look at the docs for this method you'll see that it expects a trailing slash. You can get away with this as AFHTTPClient seems to append this for you.

    That just leaves us with this potential issue

    NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://example.com/api/"];
NSLog(@"%@", [[NSURL URLWithString:@"/events" relativeToURL:baseURL] absoluteURL]);
//=> https://example.com/events
NSLog(@"%@", [[NSURL URLWithString:@"events"  relativeToURL:baseURL] absoluteURL]);
//=> https://example.com/api/events

    If you prepend a forward slash it knocks off any path components and just uses the host part of the url. So make sure you don't prepend a slash in your paths