Re: ERRest skipping my NSDictionary
Re: ERRest skipping my NSDictionary
- Subject: Re: ERRest skipping my NSDictionary
- From: Riccardo De Menna <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 23:45:24 +0200
Anyone on this?
On 09/ott/2014, at 15:52, Riccardo De Menna <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is an ERRest specific question.
>
> I have an iOS -> WebObjects/ERRest setup regularly working.
> One of the entities on both sides has an attribute that returns an NSDictionary.
> The problem is that when I try to update this attribute from the iOS side into the WO side, it is silently skipped and left empty.
>
> The iOS side JSON-serializes everything before posting the Rest requests… as a result, the dictionary attribute shows in the JSON output, very similar to a relationship child node.
>
> I could be saying something stupid here so please don’t be too harsh…
>
> The thing is, together with any primitive type, I was assuming that the Map/Dictionary kind was among the things I could “obviously” send.
> Now I’m not so sure… could anybody shed some light on this, since I could be banging my head under the wrong tree?
>
> In other words… Can I send a Map/Dictionary type object inside my JSON request and hope that WO/ERRest will catch that it is NOT a relationship to other nodes, but simply a plain old dictionary and call my entity setter or am I simply confusing ERRest?
>
> BTW, not sure if it means anything, but the attribute is actually a class method and not a real model attribute since the dictionary needs to be processed. Could that be the issue?
>
> Please help,
> Riccardo De Menna
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