iOS App Development: RESTful Web Services

Review the key concepts you need to know to create queries to a RESTful JSON server API.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files

1. RESTful Overview and Read Request

• RESTful API
• Create, read, update, delete (CRUD)
• URLSession: GET read request
• RESTful fetching one item

2. Codable Protocol for Read Request

• REST response handling of JSON
• Codable protocol is two protocols
• Decodable protocol: JSON to object
• CodingKeys for naming of properties

3. Create, Delete, and Encodable for Update

• Default encoding of object instance
• Create new object on the server
• URLSession PUT for update
• Delete request

4. More Advanced Uses of Codable

• Manual decoding of data
• Manual encoding of object instance
• Codable for arrays
• Codable for dictionaries
• Enumerations and Codable

Conclusion

• Next steps