NSURLConnection异步请求

NSURLConnection异步请求

对于NSURLConnection在5.0后有两种方法实现异步请求，一种是5.0以后引入的+sendAsynchronousRequest:queue:completionHandler:，还有就是2.0就存在的+connectionWithRequest: delegate:。前一种方法当然是最方便的，而且文档全。但是考虑到兼容的问题，往往还是会采用后者，但是问题在于文档的不全，会让人引起混乱，尽管有一个例子SimpleURLConnection的例子。

+sendAsynchronousRequest:queue:completionHandler:

- (void)loadDataSource {
    NSString *URLPath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://imgur.com/gallery.json"];
    NSURL *URL = [NSURL URLWithString:URLPath];
    NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:URL];

    [NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest:request queue:[NSOperationQueue mainQueue] completionHandler:^(NSURLResponse *response, NSData *data, NSError *error) {

       NSInteger responseCode = [(NSHTTPURLResponse *)response statusCode];

       if (!error && responseCode == 200) {
          id res = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:nil];
          if (res && [res isKindOfClass:[NSDictionary class]]) {
             self.items = [res objectForKey:@"gallery"];
             [self dataSourceDidLoad];
          } else {
             [self dataSourceDidError];
          }
       } else {
          [self dataSourceDidError];
       }
    }];
}

+connectionWithRequest: delegate:

- (void)loadDataSource {
    NSString *URLPath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://imgur.com/gallery.json"];
    NSURL *URL = [NSURL URLWithString:URLPath];
    NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:URL];   
    [NSURLConnection connectionWithRequest:request delegate:self];
}

//---------------------------------------
// You have to implement below four methods
//---------------------------------------

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)theConnection didReceiveResponse:(NSURLResponse *)response
{
    NSInteger responseCode = [(NSHTTPURLResponse *)response statusCode];
    _connectedSuccess = responseCode == 200;

    NSLog(@"response length=%lld", [response expectedContentLength]);
}

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)theConnection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data
// A delegate method called by the NSURLConnection as data arrives.  The 
// response data for a POST is only for useful for debugging purposes, 
// so we just drop it on the floor.
{
    if (_galleryData == nil) {
        _galleryData = [[NSMutableData alloc] initWithData:data];
    } else {
        [_galleryData appendData:data];
    }
}

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)theConnection didFailWithError:(NSError *)error
// A delegate method called by the NSURLConnection if the connection fails. 
// We shut down the connection and display the failure.  Production quality code 
// would either display or log the actual error.
{
}

- (void)connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection *)theConnection
// A delegate method called by the NSURLConnection when the connection has been 
// done successfully.  We shut down the connection with a nil status, which 
// causes the image to be displayed.
{
    if (_connectedSuccess) {
        id res = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_galleryData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:nil];
        if (res && [res isKindOfClass:[NSDictionary class]]) {
            self.items = [res objectForKey:@"gallery"];
            [self dataSourceDidLoad];
        } else {
            [self dataSourceDidError];
        }

        [_galleryData release];
        _galleryData = nil;

    } else {
        [self dataSourceDidError];
    }
}

实际上必须要实现NSURLConnectionDataDelegate,而这个Protocol的声明在文档中是不容易找到的，只有在这里提到了一下，在SimpleURLConnection中则没有说清楚。不过估计在5.0以前应该是没有这个Protocol的，所以在实现的过程中只要增加这四个方法就可以了，也可以有选择性地增加你想要地因为都是可选地方法。注意在这个代码里面用到了NSJSONSerialization，这个也是5.0引入的，所以要想用JSON Parser可以考虑JSONKit。