I'm using RestKit to map JSON API to iOS objects
+ (RKObjectMapping *)addressMapping
{
RKObjectMapping *mapping = [RKObjectMapping mappingForClass:[Address class]];
[mapping addAttributeMappingsFromDictionary:@{
@"id": @"idAddress",
@"id_city": @"idCity",
@"id_country": @"idCountry"
}];
return mapping;
}
+ (RKObjectMapping *)userMapping
{
RKObjectMapping *mapping = [RKObjectMapping mappingForClass:[User class]];
[mapping addAttributeMappingsFromDictionary:@{
@"id": @"idUser",
@"email": @"email",
}];
[mapping addPropertyMapping:[RKRelationshipMapping relationshipMappingFromKeyPath:@"address" toKeyPath:@"address" withMapping:[self addressMapping]]];
[mapping addPropertyMapping:[RKRelationshipMapping relationshipMappingFromKeyPath:@"branch_addresses" toKeyPath:@"branchAddresses" withMapping:[self addressMapping]]];
return mapping;
}
When I'm getting data from API, they're correctly mapped to classes:
RKResponseDescriptor *responseDescriptorGet =
[RKResponseDescriptor responseDescriptorWithMapping:[RestMappingProvider userMapping]
method:RKRequestMethodGET
pathPattern:@"/api/user/user"
keyPath:@"data"
statusCodes:RKStatusCodeIndexSetForClass(RKStatusCodeClassSuccessful)];
However when I'm updating data, the one to many relationship (branch_addresses) is not mapped correctly:
RKRequestDescriptor *requestDescriptor =
[RKRequestDescriptor requestDescriptorWithMapping:[[RestMappingProvider userMapping] inverseMapping]
objectClass:[User class]
rootKeyPath:nil
method:RKRequestMethodPUT];
Data received by the server:
[id] => 123
[email] => test@test.com
[address] => Array
(
[id] => 3
[id_city] => 1
[id_country] => 1
)
[branch_addresses] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[id] => 4
)
[1] => Array
(
[id_city] => 1
)
[2] => Array
(
[id_country] => 1
)
)
What data should looks like on the server:
[id] => 123
[email] => test@test.com
[address] => Array
(
[id] => 3
[id_city] => 1
[id_country] => 1
)
[branch_addresses] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[id] => 4
[id_city] => 1
[id_country] => 1
)
)
Content of php://input on server side (raw data):
id=123&email=test%40test.com&address[id]=3&address[id_city]=1&address[id_country]=1&branch_addresses[][id]=4&branch_addresses[][id_city]=1&branch_addresses[][id_country]=2&branch_addresses[][id]=6&branch_addresses[][id_city]=1&branch_addresses[][id_country]=1
Not all forms of data transmission are equally expressive. It seems you're sending query parameters instead of JSON, or at least a form encoded set of data. You need to set the default request mime type so restkit knows you want to send JSON and it converts to the required format.