Re: Cocoa Asynchronous API Design
Re: Cocoa Asynchronous API Design
- Subject: Re: Cocoa Asynchronous API Design
- From: Tito Ciuro <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 11:05:44 -0700
Hi Seth,
I thought about adding blocks, but I would like to support older iPhones if possible. Blocks were introduced in iOS 4, correct?
Thanks,
-- Tito
On May 24, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Seth Willits wrote:
> On May 24, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Tito Ciuro wrote:
>
>> I have a question about Cocoa API design. I think I can give a concrete example to best explain what the goal is. Assume I have an Inventory service and I need to write a client API that deals with it. Goals:
>>
>> - The API should allow me to add, update, delete and search items
>> - These operations should be asynchronous
>
>
> - (void)addInventoryItem:(Item *)item resultHandler:(void (^)(NSError * error))resultHandler;
>
> In this way, the result handling block already has access to every parameter and the receiver, so there's no need for verbose delegate methods which pass them all back, or packing and and unpacking an object which contains them all.
>
>
> --
> Seth Willits
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