iOS App Development: RESTful Web Services

Course details

Review the key concepts you need to know to create queries to a RESTful JSON server API. Learn the core fundamentals for creating a request, and review how to do the standard operations on server-side data: create, read, update, and delete (CRUD). Discover how to parse JSON data directly into object instances with the Codable protocol. Plus, learn about more advanced uses of the Codable protocol, including how to implement manual decoding of data.

Learning objectives
Create, read, update, delete (CRUD)
RESTful fetching one item
REST response handling of JSON
Creating new objects on the server
Codable for arrays and dictionaries
Enumerations and Codable

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know
03 - Using the exercise files

1. RESTful Overview and Read Request

04 - RESTful API
05 - Create, read, update, delete (CRUD)
06 - URLSession - GET read request
07 - RESTful fetching one item

2. Codable Protocol for Read Request

08 - REST response handling of JSON
09 - Codable protocol is two protocols
10 - Decodable protocol - JSON to object
11 - CodingKeys for naming of properties

3. Create, Delete, and Encodable for Update

12 - Default encoding of object instance
13 - Create new object on the server
14 - URLSession PUT for update
15 - Delete request

4. More Advanced Uses of Codable

16 - Manual decoding of data
17 - Manual encoding of object instance
18 - Codable for arrays
19 - Codable for dictionaries
20 - Enumerations and Codable

Conclusion

21 - Next steps

iOS App Development: RESTful Web Services

Authors

Bear Cahill