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Jorge
Jorge

Reputation: 1532

Is it possible to retrieve data from parse.com using objective-c and show it in website?

I have an iOS app in which I use parse.com as backend service. Now, I hired someone to do a website interface using HTML and CSS. I want to share the same data between iOS app and website, I know parse.com offers me a few ways to do this, including creating a javaScriptapplication. The problem is, my programmer doesn't have any experience in JavaScript, nor do I.

My question is: Is it possible to use what I have (objective-c, xcode) as far as retrieving data from parse.com and showing on website? Even if I need to code something new, is it possible to use objective-c together with HTML and CSS?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 452

Answers (2)

Marius Waldal
Marius Waldal

Reputation: 9932

Parse has several APIs, one of which is REST. Your web developer should use the REST API to get data from Parse

https://www.parse.com/docs/rest

Upvotes: 2

Mostafa Berg
Mostafa Berg

Reputation: 3239

If there is will there is way, but you'll be making something really specific to your use and will be non standard and will be immediately hard to maintain, I recommend that you hire another developer and do things properly using the technologies given to you by parse !. if the cost will be high now I can promise you it'll be much higher if you went the path you're going to now.

So my answer is:

Yes, everything is possible and no, don't do it ! :)

Edit: Added an example to a possible way to do it to actually answer OP's question.

Example case:

1-Create a simple Mac Application in Xcode that fetches data exactly like you do it on iOS, and store the needed data into a database of your choice on your server

2-You now have access to the data you needed from parse, but on a local mirror. you will need some tool to fetch that data though, I recommend a simple PHP script.

Note that this will require an OSX server to always be running to fetch that data, you'll also need of find a way to fetch data on demand when a user needs it Vs. polling at specified intervals, this will hardly scale and will be costly as I said.

Upvotes: 1

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