斯坦福iOS7 2013-2014秋Assignment 6的一种答案 #1

这篇文章是针对斯坦福iOS7 2013-1014的公开课Assignment 6 Top Regions所进行的解答，由于这个作业设计的内容很多包括

1.CoreData

2.UIManagedDocument

3.Database Schema Design 

4.Multithreaded Application Development 

5.The Application Delegate method ：application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: 

6.Background Fetching 

7.Background URL Sessions 

8.Listening to “radio stations” via NSNotificationCenter

并且难度很大，涉及的方面也很多，就拿出来和大家分享一下。当然这并不是唯一的答案，只是一些见解。这个作业的UI是基于Assignment 5(不需要其中的类和model），并且需要下载好FlickrFetcher的API，这些就不再说了，csdn上有人分享源码的。

拿到这个作业一个直观的感受可能就是如何设计它的数据结构，当然我先卖个关子，在后面的部分会提出一种思路，先一点点地完成。

1.Our application must work identically to last week except that where you are displaying the “top places” (as reported by Flickr), you are going to display the “top regions” in which photos have been taken. You will calculate the most popular regions from the data you gather periodically from the URLforRecentGeoreferencedPhotos. 

首先，从appDelegate开始

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application
didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
    [self startFlickrFetch];
    return YES;
}

简单地建立一个foreground fetch

- (void)startFlickrFetch
{
    [FlickrHelper loadRecentPhotosOnCompletion:^(NSArray *photos, NSError *error) {
        if (error) {
            NSLog(@"Flickr background fetch failed: %@", error.localizedDescription);
        } else {
            NSLog(@"%d photos fetched", [photos count]);
        }
    }];
}

建立一个FlickrHelper的类，它从json中读取出photos，然后在completionHandler 上运行AppDelegate中的block。它的包含以下方法：

//  FlickrHelper.h
+ (void)loadRecentPhotosOnCompletion:(void (^)(NSArray *places, NSError *error))completionHandler;
 
//  FlickrHelper.m

#import "FlickrFetcher.h"
+ (void)loadRecentPhotosOnCompletion:(void (^)(NSArray *places, NSError *error))completionHandler
{
    NSURLSessionConfiguration *config = [NSURLSessionConfiguration ephemeralSessionConfiguration];
    NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sessionWithConfiguration:config];
    NSURLSessionDownloadTask *task = [session downloadTaskWithURL:[FlickrFetcher URLforRecentGeoreferencedPhotos]
                                                completionHandler:^(NSURL *location, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) {
                                                    NSArray *photos;
                                                    if (!error) {
                                                        photos = [[NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:location]
                                                                                                  options:0
                                                                                                    error:&error] valueForKeyPath:FLICKR_RESULTS_PHOTOS];
                                                    }
                                                    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
                                                        completionHandler(photos, error);
                                                    });
                                                }];
    [task resume];
}

好了，在output里面应该能“250 photos fetched”这条信息。