[jsanders]

How do you consume a web service? My goal is to write an iPhone app to interact with our corporate timekeeping system. The web service at corporate would provide methods for getting data and submitting data.

[caseycrookston]

did you ever figure this out?

[geebee]

I’m glad this topic is still active as it’s critical to have the ability to communicate with a web site via a web service to send and receive data in a native iPhone app.

I’m hoping someone will shed some light on this.

[support-michael]

All:

I would be helpful if you could share details about your web service integration needs. MobiOne webapps and native apps are implemented in html5. Thus you standard ajax or synchronous integration patterns can be used for your app to interface with your services. I would like to hear about the services you wish to consume? What protocol is used, e.g., SOAP, REST XML JSON or JSONP, ad hoc, … more details yield better responses?

SOAP example:
– this example uses YQL to avoid the cross domain problem and to preprocess the result data
http://www.genuitec.com/support-genuitec/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1713

I have developed apps that uses twitter jsonp apis, rss feeds, simple xml data retrieval, …

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