Mapping actual parentheses in resources paths

[Nick Curran]

I'm trying to map PUTs and DELETEs to OData resource paths. OData address resources with actual parentheses, like so:

/Thing(23)

Is there a way to route this in RestKit? Currently the parentheses get stripped out and I end up with

/Thing:23

I have a workaround where I route with [ and ] instead of ( and ), and then I replace those in requestWillPrepareForSend, but that solution smells. I'd like to be able to escape the parentheses somehow and move on.

My setup:

[objectManager.router routeClass: [Thing class] toResourcePath: @"/Thing(:id)" forMethod: RKRequestMethodPUT];

[objectManager.router routeClass: [Thing class] toResourcePath: @"/Thing(:id)/" forMethod: RKRequestMethodDELETE];

[Mark Peters]

Hi Nick

 

Did you ever solve this? I'm running into the same issue and can't seem to find an elegant way out.

 

Thanks

Mark

[Nick Curran]

I solved it with a kludge. It's not ideal, but it works. I used [] instead of () in my routing, and then I handle requestWillPrepareForSend: in my RKRequestDelegate to convert them on the actual send. 

#pragma mark - RKRequestDelegate

- (void) requestWillPrepareForSend: (RKRequest*) request
{
    NSRange range = [request.resourcePath rangeOfString: @"["];
    if (range.location == NSNotFound)
        return;
    id params = request.params;
    NSString* path = [request.resourcePath stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: @"[" withString: @"("];
    path = [path stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: @"]" withString: @")"];
    request.resourcePath = path;
    request.params       = params;
}

[Blake Watters]

Parentheses matching/replacement is no longer performed under 0.20.