mrardon

Accessing an API using CoreData's NSIncrementalStore

Note: the original location of this article is on my blog, however, it is posted here too for better readability.

In this article, we will see how to use Core Data for accessing your API. We will use the Bandcamp API as our running example. I've only been experimenting with this code for a few days, so there might be mistakes in there.

I have managed to install this… and make it work. I implemented it for Facebook and Google, but you can extend it. My solution it is mostly as described in #116, with a bit of more code presented. The key aspects that lack in the #116 presentation (IMO) are:

the registration as service of your custom FOSUBUserProvider (with the necessary parameters)
set the service for oauth_user_provider in the security.yml with your custom created service

Here are the steps:

Routing. In routing.yml I have added all the routes for both bundles.
Configuration. I have set the config.yml mostly as it is presented in the HWIOAuthBundle.
Security. I have set the security.yml mostly as it is presented in the HWIOAuthBundle (though my routes are using /login pattern, not /connect). Also, the oauth_user_provider is set for my custom service.

Setup vagrant vm

vagrant box add precise64 http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box
vagrant init precise64
sed -i 's/# config.vm.network :hostonly/config.vm.network :hostonly/' Vagrantfile
vagrant up
vagrant ssh

Install base software and apache (to have something to proxy)

	from redis import Redis
	import simplejson

	class Resque(object):
	"""Dirt simple Resque client in Python. Can be used to create jobs."""
	redis_server = 'localhost:6379'

	def __init__(self):
	host, port = self.redis_server.split(':')
	self.redis = Redis(host=host, port=int(port))

	/*
	* ctrl-f1
	* -------
	* Query or toggle the "Full Keyboard Access" hotkey, Ctrl-F1
	*
	* make CC=clang CFLAGS="-framework Carbon" ctrl-f1
	*/

	#include <Carbon/Carbon.h>

	<?php

	use Doctrine\ORM\Query\SqlWalker;

	/**
	* Quick hack to allow adding a USE INDEX on the query
	*/
	class UseIndexWalker extends SqlWalker
	{
	const HINT_USE_INDEX = 'UseIndexWalker.UseIndex';

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	curl https://s3.amazonaws.com/heroku-jvm-buildpack-vi/vim-7.3.tar.gz --output vim.tar.gz
	mkdir vim && tar xzvf vim.tar.gz -C vim
	export PATH=$PATH:/app/vim/bin

	<?php

	namespace Dpn\ToolsBundle\Form\Type;

	use Symfony\Component\Form\AbstractType;
	use Dpn\ToolsBundle\Form\DataTransformer\EntityToIdTransformer;
	use Symfony\Component\Form\FormBuilderInterface;
	use Symfony\Component\OptionsResolver\OptionsResolverInterface;
	use Doctrine\Common\Persistence\ObjectManager;

	<?php

	namespace Linkofy\CommonBundle\Menu;

	use Knp\Menu\FactoryInterface;
	use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerAware;

	class Builder extends ContainerAware
	{
	public function mainMenu(FactoryInterface $factory, array $options)