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Use [siesta-swift] for questions about the Siesta REST library for iOS. For the Javascript unit testing tool, use the tag [siesta].

Siesta is a REST framework for iOS apps. It provides a resource-centric alternative to the familiar request-centric approach to networking.

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What is the best way to map REST URL Patterns to Model Objects for the Siesta framework?

I'd like to use a ResponseTransformer (or a series of them) to automatically map my object model classes to the responses coming back from a Siesta service so that my Siesta resources are instances of my model classes. I have a working…
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How to implement a Persistent Cache in Siesta with a structured model layer

I'm using (and loving) Siesta to communicate with a REST web service in my Swift App. I have implemented a series of ResponseTransformers to map the API call responses to model classes so that the Siesta Resources are automatically parsed into…
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How can I mock resource responses?

In my app I have a class that encapsulates a Service and has methods that return resources and requests. In my tests I want to mock success/failures for the requests and resources without making any real network calls.Since Request is a protocol, it…
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Sending a numeric value in http request with swift, adds 000000000000001 to the actual value

I'm trying to perform a HTTP request to a server: the content is a JSON object, which contains a numeric value for the key "amount". If the "amount" is a value with a decimal digit, e.g. 1.6, the request will contain the value 1.6000000000000001,…
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Siesta iOS GET request with url parameters

Is there a way to make a GET request in Siesta, while providing parameter, like http://example.com/api/list.json?myparam=1? I tried with myAPI.resource("list.json?myparam=1") but the question mark gets escaped. Then I tried…
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How do I upload a file using Siesta Framework in Swift?

The question is pretty straightforward: I need to upload a .zip file to a server, how do I do this within Swift using Siesta Framework? Thank you.
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Swift Siesta edit fetched entity

I'm building an API client using Siesta and Swift 3 on Xcode 8. I want to be able to fetch an entity using a Siesta resource, then update some of the data and do a patch to the API. The issue is that having an entity, if I save the JSON arrays in my…
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How do I create a Siesta transformer for an API endpoint that contains a JSON array?

I'm building an app that needs to make a GET request to the API endpoint https://thecountedapi.com/api/counted using the Siesta framework. The endpoint returns a JSON array, just like an endpoint like https://api.github.com/users/ebelinski/repos,…
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Siesta Swift Casting from ImplicitlyUnwrappedOptional to Array

I am configuring ResponseTransformer of siesta to return array of objects. service.configureTransformer("/models/*") { Model.instantiate($0.content) } but somehow when I try to convert them to back to array using let objects =…
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Does Siesta provide any special handling for pagination?

How does Siesta handle paginated URLs? Is there a mechanism to manage multiple pages of results as a single resource?
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Mark successful siesta response as error

I'm working with a really strange (and nasty) API that I have no control over, and unfortunately when an invalid request is made, instead of responding with a 4xx status, it responds with a 200 status instead. With this response, it also changes the…
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Siesta Framework Request Cancellation

I could not find any way to cancel a request using Siesta Framework. Is this possible, and how?
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How should I handle partial EntityCache hits in Siesta?

I have an endpoint where I can request multiple pieces of data (such as https://example.com/things?ids=1,2,3) that I'm querying using Siesta. I'm trying to figure out the proper behavior of my persistent entity cache if I only have some of the…
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How to define content transformers in Siesta?

I'm just integrating Siesta and I love it, it solves a lot of issues we have when using frameworks like RestKit. What I can't get my head around is how to use the content transformers? I've looked at the docs and examples and I can't quite…
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Authentication Token

I'm trying to setup a simple iOS example to better understand Siesta. My REST api requires an access token to accompany each request. So (1) at the start of the app and (2) anytime I retrieve a HTTP 401 I need to request an access token and then…
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