StackKit: an API framework for Cocoa

Question

About

StackKit is a library for accessing the Stack Exchange API from within Cocoa/Cocoa Touch applications. It is under active development, but the major core functionality is present.

Code Snippet

[SKSite requestSiteWithNameLike:@"Stack Overflow" completionHandler:^(SKSite *site, NSError *error) {
  SKFetchRequest *r = [[SKFetchRequest requestForFetchingUsers] withIDs: 115730, nil];
  [site executeFetchRequest:r completionHandler:^(NSArray *results, NSError *error) {
    NSLog(@"retrieved users: %@", results);
  }];
}];

License

StackKit is available under the MIT license.

Download

StackKit can be downloaded from its Github repository.

Platform

StackKit is compatible with iOS 5+ and Mac OS X 10.7+.

Contact

StackKit is being developed by myself (Dave DeLong).

Code

StackKit is written in Objective-C. If you find a bug or would like to help contribute to it, please contact me via the project repository on Github. You're also welcome to fork the repository and send pull requests.

_{Description and code samples shown reflect the API of the "2.0" branch}

Answer 1

Good thing you didn't put a space in the name:

Answer 2

have you thought of adding User Association from StackAuth? I added it to my copy as a class method to SKSite, not sure if it follows the design pattern but it works. Also it doesn't return complete SKUser objects, because stackauth itself doesn't and fetch the complete user object from each site isn't feasible.

Answer 3

Hi Dave,

I'm using StakKit and love it, but when I tried to include it in managed objective-c project I get following message

objc[2411]: '/Library/Frameworks/StackKit.framework/Versions/A/StackKit' was not compiled with -fobjc-gc or -fobjc-gc-only, but the application requires GC

I tried to compile the source with GC supported but it wasn't compiled. Could you guys make it compatible with GC

And also can you add Gravatar url for user in SKUser Entity ?

Thanks.

Answer 4

I tried to compile the iphone static library,but it failed in SKFunctions.h on line 41

NSString * SKExtractVector(id value, SKExtractor extractor);

with the error:

Expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'SKExtractor'

(i'm trying to use it in an iOS 3.2 app btw)

Answer 5

Is this project still under development?

Answer 6

I'm glad to hear that StackKit is alive, since I started coding an iPad app using your framework :-) Keep up the great work, I'll contact you as soon as a working prototype is ready.

Answer 7

Still using StackKit and thinking its great, I've added a SKUserRepChange object and the ability to retrieve (when I say added I mean copied, pasted and editied ;)) Not sure how I can contribute this if you want it?

(Also I've always found it a bit backwards the way SKFetchRequests are executed asyncronously? Wouldn't it be better to have a executeOnSite method in SKFetchRequest object?)

Answer 8

I am having trouble figuring out how to set up StackKit within a project. This most likely is a result of my inexperience with XCode in general but I figured this would be an appropriate place to ask.

I have built the StackKit project and then copied the .framework folder to a more accessible (easier to find) location. I then add the framework to the project.

Then due to an "image not found" error I add a Copy Files build phase.

The problem is that I end up with two references to the StackKit.framework in my project. Clearly this isn't the right way to set this up. Is there a way to simplify this?

Answer 9

Is it possible to get a push notification when a new answer appeared for a specific question?

Answer 10

Dave,

I'm trying to fetch user asynchronously, but somehow fetchRequestWillBeginExecuting and fetchRequestWillBeginExecuting are not executing with iPhone SDK 4, can you have a look please?