Commit Graph

5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Blake Watters
4e03ba7bef Renamed Polymorphic mapping to dynamic mapping after consulting with the community. Dropped abstract superclass in favor of a RKObjectMappingDefinition protocol. Caught missing cases with dynamic object mapping + targetObject. Updated docs and method signatures to reflect the updates. 2011-07-31 19:37:42 -04:00
Blake Watters
670234b775 Added support for polymorphic object mapping (Github #105, #244). This enables you to dynamically map objects to different destination classes or using different mapping strategies via configuration or callbacks. See Docs/Object Mapping.md for details.
Other changes include:
* Eliminated the RKObjectFactory protocol and implementations. Object mapping instances themselves are
now responsible for instantiating target objects for mapping.
* Introduced RKObjectAbstractMapping superclass for RKObjectMapping and RKObjectPolymorphicMapping.
* Updated example applications to use block object loaders (RKTwitter and RKTwitterCoreData)
* Refactored method signatures of RKObjectMapper, RKObjectMapping, and RKObjectMappingProvider to reflect the
existence of abstract mapping types. This was necessary to make polymorphic mappings integrate cleanly.
* Fixed overlap in RestKit error domains between network and object mapping. fixes #208
2011-07-30 16:00:36 -04:00
Blake Watters
570b13ca07 Updated Object Mapping documentation, added support for inferring object mappings based off of the type of the object used in postObject:, putObject:, etc. Made KVC validation optional. 2011-07-23 23:47:03 -04:00
Blake Watters
3204682f72 Added object mapping management to the mapping provider for folks who don't have keyPaths. Deprecated setMapping:forKeyPath: in favor of setObjectMapping:forKeyPath: for consistency with the other method signatures. 2011-06-20 10:49:40 -04:00
Blake Watters
f3c0995d5e Implementation of Object Mapping 2.0 design:
* Removed RestKit from inheritance hierarchy
  * Mappings are implemented as concrete classes
  * Mapper is much more flexible & powerful
  * Much more robust error handling
  * Serialization is reimplemented as an object mapping operation
  * Added ability to serialize to JSON natively
  * Reworked Core Data integration
  * Simplified the codebase substantially
2011-06-11 19:26:56 -04:00