Comments on Victor Costan: Toolkit for Web Service-Backed iPhone Apps

@Tyler: do you know how I could do 1? 2 isn't ...

2010-02-01T22:26:46.075-05:00

@Tyler: do you know how I could do 1? 2 isn't too difficult, I can do that quickly.

I will do the change, if it doesn't take too much time and work. Sadly, iPhone development didn't work out for me financially, so I can't spend too much time on iPhone-related stuff.

After having spent the past few hours digging thro...

2009-12-19T20:26:45.457-05:00

After having spent the past few hours digging through just a minor section of this library, I must say: nice job, man. This is quite impressive.

I did run into one issue, however:

Even though the library requires that properties be declared for the various ivars you want to work with, it doesn't actually use the properties' setters when setting the ivars - it just grabs the ivar and sets it manually. Normally, this would not be an issue. However, my employer requires that all ivars be prepended with a specific character to distinguish them from local vars and to make the code more readable. I would prefer not to have to prefix my properties with the same character.

This could theoretically be achieved if, instead of assuming the ivar and property are named the same, the library:

1. Generated any missing setter strings
2. Used the setters to change the ivars

[ZNMSString.m line 38, for example]:

if (nil != [attribute setterName])
{
SEL setterSelector = NSSelectorFromString([attribute setterName]);
objc_msgSend(instance, setterSelector, string);
}

I don't know how much work it would take to go through and make this change to all the various types, but I think it would add some nice flexibility to the library.

@Matthew: Thank you so much for the exposure, and ...

2009-11-16T19:45:37.017-05:00

@Matthew: Thank you so much for the exposure, and good luck with your presentation!

Please add a comment pointing to your deck if you get around to posting it online?

Adding this awesome library and blog post to a sli...

2009-11-16T17:11:50.174-05:00

Adding this awesome library and blog post to a slide deck I'm using on the NoFluffJustStuff.com presentation tour about iPhone development with Java Web Services.

Wow, sounds great !!! I've been looking for th...

2009-10-12T14:17:39.539-04:00

Wow, sounds great !!!
I've been looking for this for a very long time.
I am looking forward on trying this out later this week.....