String <-> Object Coder for Objective-C
String <-> Object Coding for Objective-C. Rhymes with "socket".
With SOCKit and SOCPattern you can easily transform objects into strings and vice versa.
SOCPattern* pattern = [SOCPattern patternWithString:@"api.github.com/users/:username/gists"]; [pattern stringFromObject:githubUser]; > @"api.github.com/users/jverkoey/gists"
SOCPattern* pattern = [SOCPattern patternWithString:@"github.com/:username"]; [pattern performSelector:@selector(initWithUsername:) onObject:[GithubUser class] sourceString:@"github.com/jverkoey"]; > username = jverkoey
Damn straight it is.
Except hella better. It's also entirely incompatible with Three20 routes. This kinda blows if you've already invested a ton of energy into Three20's routing tech, but here are a few reasons why SOCKit is better:
Here's a quick breakdown of the differences between Three20 and SOCKit, if SOCKit were used as the backend for Three20's URL routing.
Three20: [map from:@"twitter://tweet/(initWithTweetId:)" toViewController:[TweetController class]]; SOCKit: [map from:@"twitter://tweet/:id" toViewController:[TweetController class] selector:@selector(initWithTweetId:)];Three20: [map from:[Tweet class] name:@"thread" toURL:@"twitter://tweet/(id)/thread"]; SOCKit: [map from:[Tweet class] name:@"thread" toURL:@"twitter://tweet/:id/thread"];
SOCKit is a sibling project to Nimbus, a light-weight and modular framework that makes it easy to blaze a trail with your iOS apps.
Users of RESTKit will notice that SOCKit provides similar functionality to RESTKit's RKMakePathWithObject. In fact, both
RKMakePathWithObjectand the underlying
RKPathMatcherclass rely on SOCKit behind the scenes.
This lightweight library is built to be a dead-simple airdrop directly into your project. Contained in SOCKit.h and SOCKit.m is all of the functionality you will need in order to start mapping Strings <-> Objects. To start using SOCKit, simply download or
git checkoutthe SOCKit repo and drag SOCKit.h and SOCKit.m to your project's source tree.
#import "SOCKit.h"where you want to use SOCKit and start pumping out some mad String <-> Object coding.
When coding objects into strings you define parameters by prefixing the property name with a colon. So if you have a Tweet object with a
tweetIdproperty, the pattern parameter name would look like
:tweetId. Simple enough.
But now let's say you have a Tweet object that contains a reference to a TwitterUser object via the
userproperty, and that TwitterUser object has a
usernameproperty. Check this out:
:user.username. If this was one of my tweets and I encoded the Tweet object using a SOCKit pattern the resulting string would be
@"featherless". KVC rocks.
In-depth documentation can be found in the SOCKit.h header file.
If you find a bug in SOCKit please file an issue on the Github SOCKit issue tracker. Even better: if you have a solution for the bug then fork the project and make a pull request.