Easy Methods to Retrieve RESTful Data in Objective-C

-(NSMutableArray*) getItemsArray:(NSDictionary *)itemsDictionary

{

   // FOR METHODS NOT NATIVE TO OBJECTIVE-C SEE MY METHODS AS I USE THEM HERE: 

   // IE, convertToString (etc.)

    NSString* numberOfItems = [itemsDictionary objectForKey: @"numberOfDetails"];

int intNumberOfItems = [numberOfItems intValue];

NSNumber* price, *quantity;

    NSString* stringData, *stringItemNumber;

    NSMutableArray *itemsArray;

    NSLog(@"OrdersViewController: getItemsArray: Number of Details: %@", numberOfItems);

    NSLog(@"OrdersViewController: getItemsArray: intNumberOfItems: %i", intNumberOfItems);

    

    indivItem *item;

    NSDictionary* indivItemDictionary;

    

    itemsArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

    

    for (int i = 0; i < intNumberOfItems; i++) {

        

item = [[indivItem alloc] init];

stringItemNumber = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%i", i];

        

NSLog(@"Item Index Number: %@", stringItemNumber);

        

        indivItemDictionary = [itemsDictionary objectForKey:stringItemNumber];

        

        stringData = [indivItemDictionary objectForKey:@"price"];

        NSLog(@"String Data Price Data of an Item: %@", stringData);

price = [self convertStringToNumber:stringData];

        NSLog(@"Price Data of an Item: %@", [price stringValue]);

item.price = price;

NSLog(@"Item's Price: %f", [item.price floatValue]);

        

stringData = [indivItemDictionary objectForKey:@"quantity"];

quantity = [self convertStringToNumber:stringData];

        item.quantity = quantity;

NSLog(@"Quantity: %i", [item.quantity integerValue]);

stringData = [indivItemDictionary objectForKey:@"itemName"];

item.itemName = stringData;

NSLog(@"Item's Name: %@", item.itemName);

     

[itemsArray addObject:item];

        

        

}

    

    return itemsArray;

    

}

-(NSDictionary*)getOrderDictionary:(NSString*)customerID

{

    

    

    NSString *urlString = @"http://www.website.com/test/restfulScriptCall.pl?";

    NSString *queryString = @"";

    queryString = [queryString stringByAppendingString:@"parametername="];

    queryString = [queryString stringByAppendingString:parametervalue];

    

    // Step 5:  Make the RESTful call.

    

    urlString = [urlString stringByAppendingString:queryString];

    

    urlString = [urlString stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];

    

    

    NSLog(@"OrdersViewController URL String: %@", urlString);

    

    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlString];

    NSData *dataURL = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];

    NSDictionary *myDict = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:dataURL options:0 error:nil];

    return myDict;

    

    

    

}