RKTableController provides a flexible, integrated system for driving iOS table views using
the RestKit object mapping engine. Local domain objects can be mapped into table cells within a
collection or presented for editing as part of a form. There are three flavors of table controllers
available:
* Static Tables: RKTableController can be used to render simple static tables that are composed of RKTableItems
presented in RKTableSections. Table items can quickly be built and added to a table without a backing model
or can have content object mapped into them for presentation.
* Network Tables: RKTableController can also render a table with the results of a network load. The typical use
case here is to have RestKit retrieve a JSON/XML payload from your remote system and then render the content into
a table.
* Core Data Tables: RKFetchedResultsTableController can efficiently drive a table view using objects pulled from a
Core Data managed object context. Typical use-cases here are for the presentation of large collections that are
pulled from a remote system, offering offline access, or speeding up a UI by using Core Data as a fast local cache.
RKTableController supports a number of bells and whistles including integrated searching/filtering and pull to refresh.
The test is currently failing and the 6 results are
returned instead of keeping alive only the original
4 result objects. Requires further investigation.
Didn't add header to NSManagedObject+ActiveRecord.h,
NSManagedObject+ActiveRecord.m and RKManagedObjectCache.h .
NSManagedObject+ActiveRecord was adapted from someone else, and
RKManagedObjectCache has different code formatting. Will update those
once I get confirmation on them.
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
* Introduces RKRequestCache for cacheing responses (supports ETag conditional GET, use cache if available, use cache on error, etc.) closes#75
* Updates to Three20 layer to eliminate need for intermediary TTTableItem classes closes#76
* Fixes to ensure iOS 3.x compatability:
* Switched compiler to Clang
* Updated conditional checks for UIBackgroundTask symbols to ensure runtime safety on iOS 3.x
* Removed unnecessary linkage against UIKit and CoreFoundation from library targets
* Fix for issue where RKRequest objects could become stuck in infinite loop within RKRequestQueue loadNextInQueue if you start
a request and then cancel immediately. On cancel only decrement loadCount if the request has start loading. refs #122
* 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
* Cleaned up various mismatches in method signatures that were preventing documentation generation
* Removed naked ampersands from comments as they cause XML parser failures during docset generation via appledoc
