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Ankish Jain
Ankish Jain

Reputation: 11361

iPhone downloading many small JSON files and storing in DB asynchronously

I have to download 100 thousand JSONS, each JSON not more than 200 characters. I am using AF networking. Is there a way to encode to reduce the size at the server side and send and i should be able to decode at iPhone side.

Moreover has anyone got a method to download the JSONS and store it in the DB on the background thread.Because when i do that directly the UI thread is blocked. Sample Code would be really helpful.

Need the best way to download the HUGE-JSON and store it in the DB.Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 161

Answers (1)

Volker Bublitz
Volker Bublitz

Reputation: 76

For encoding you can, for example, use gzip-compressed data in your http response that will be unpacked by ios automatically without the need to code anything. Just add "Content-Encoding: gzip" to your http response on the server side. On iOS, i think NSURLRequest accepts gzip encoding by default, or you can set 

[request setValue:@"gzip" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept-Encoding"]

Of course you can download the JSONS in the background. A good source for information and example code is here http://iosdevelopmentjournal.com/blog/2013/01/27/running-network-requests-in-the-background/

Upvotes: 1

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