ASIHTTPRequest 2013

Dro

How do you think guys. Is that convenient to release a turn-based board game (always online) with network working on ASIHTTPRequest? A library that is no longer supported and updated. For almost two years now.
It's still kinda easy to use. I've got used to that. And it does the thing.
But game gone ARC at the middle of development. and ASIHTTPRequest have not. so it still uses -fno-objc-arc, which I don't like.

It's not like really hard to change network component but that's a trivial and long round. I just think is there at least one good point? AFNetworking? Some suggestions advices recommendations?

Thanks!

seriousGeorge

We used ASIHttpRequest also in many projects. But some colleagues are now using AFNetworking. I remember it was at first a little more complicated than Asi and lacked some features when I checked it (persistentCaching was one of it if I remember correctly) - but that wass over a year ago. I guess nowadays and since constant updates it should compare or exceed the featureset of Asi - at least I would give AFNetworking it a try 😉

Also you may check some of the Answers in here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7529258/what-major-asihttprequest-features-is-afnetworking-missing

iosNighthawk

Hey I was using ASI back in the day before ARC.

Since ARC I started using MKNetworkKit. I really like it and find it easy to use.
https://github.com/MugunthKumar/MKNetworkKit

I haven't heard of AFNetworking, but that could be a good choice too. I'd take a look at some libraries and see what works best for you.

Dro

Thank you guys.
Looks like it has to be done.

I also noticed one really rare bad_access in ASI:

// Dispatch the stream events.
        case kCFStreamEventErrorOccurred:
            [self handleStreamError];

if ([[self delegate] respondsToSelector:[self didReceiveDataSelector]]) {

http://pix.academ.org/img/2013/07/13/9efe7e8d78cb83c4cbd0a9f48fb6d6be.png

Got this just now.
it's like one time in 100 launches. And for now I don't know the reason.

Will see how AFN works with that. Or MKN probably.

Dro

I've tried AFN and after full day of refactoring I removed ASI from the project.

There were some difficulties with content type, special http headers and etc. But now it's already easier to use. I like how AFN parse JSON to native dictionary on the go. Tons of code have been removed. And it's easier to cancel operations.

It's ARC =)
and of course there's no specified crashes. At least for now.

Thank you guys.

borrrden

ASI has been abandoned for quite some time now, and as a result the new consensus seems to be AFNetworking. Indeed I have used it in my own projects! Just remember that when using this kind of library that *you need to include the license in your project*. AFNetworking is under the MIT license, which is pretty poorly worded in terms of clarity (the license needs to be included in "the software"). However, with Simple English rules ("My mother goes to Best Buy to buy software") it can be argued that software means "binary" in this case. It seems to be enough just to throw a copy of the license in your main bundle (where no one can see it or access it easily anyway), but keep it in mind. I was scolded repeatedly during these past few days by my team leader because we need to clear this kind of stuff with our client first (I didn't realize that it was such a big deal...).