Please see below two example code snippets calling the People API in Objective-C:

- (BOOL)tryConnection

{

    // try to connect with the API and see if we can

    // set the ENDPOINT

    NSString *url = @"https://api.peoplehr.net/Employee";

    // Construct the JSON string

    NSString *post = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"{\"APIKey\": \"%@\", \"Action\": \"CheckAuthentication\", \"EmailAddress\": \"%@\", \"Password\": \"%@\"}", APIText.text, emailAddress.text, password.text];

    NSData *postData = [post dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];

    NSString *postLength = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", [postData length]];

    NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init];

    [request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:url]];

    [request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];

    [request setValue:postLength forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Length"];

    [request setValue:@"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];

    [request setHTTPBody:postData];

    NSURLResponse *response;

    NSError *error;

    // GET The data

    NSData *jsonData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&error];

    NSDictionary *results = jsonData ? [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:jsonData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers|NSJSONReadingMutableLeaves error:&error] : nil;

    if (error) NSLog(@"[%@ %@] JSON error: %@", NSStringFromClass([self class]), NSStringFromSelector(_cmd), error.localizedDescription);

    int status  = [[results objectForKey:@"Status"] intValue];

    NSLog(@"%d", status);

    if (status != 0)

    {

        NSString *error = [results objectForKey:@"Message"];

        NSLog(@"%@", error);

        errorMessage.text = error;

        errorMessage.hidden = NO;

    }

    if (status == 0)

        return YES;

    return NO;

}

-(void)FirstTimeSetup

{

    // use this as a one off to retrieve employee data from database and store it locally with a code

    NSString *url = @"https://api.peoplehr.net/Employee";

    NSString *post = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"{\"APIKey\":\"%@\", \"Action\": \"GetAllEmployeeDetail\", \"IncludeLeavers\": \"false\"}", API];

    NSData *postData = [post dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];

    NSString *postLength = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", [postData length]];

    NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init];

    [request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:url]];

    [request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];

    [request setValue:postLength forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Length"];

    [request setValue:@"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];

    [request setHTTPBody:postData];

    NSURLResponse *response;

    NSError *error;

    NSData *jsonData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&error];

    NSDictionary *results = jsonData ? [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:jsonData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers|NSJSONReadingMutableLeaves error:&error] : nil;

    if (error) NSLog(@"[%@ %@] JSON error: %@", NSStringFromClass([self class]), NSStringFromSelector(_cmd), error.localizedDescription);

    // padd the employee date

    [Employee FirstTimeSetup:results];

}

+ (void)FirstTimeSetup:(NSDictionary*)data

{

    AppDelegate *app = (AppDelegate*)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];

    [app.managedObjectContext setMergePolicy:NSOverwriteMergePolicy];

    NSFetchRequest *fetchRequest = [[NSFetchRequest alloc] init];

    NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription

                                   entityForName:@"Employee" inManagedObjectContext:app.managedObjectContext];

    [fetchRequest setEntity:entity];

    NSError *error;

    NSArray *fetchedObjects = [app.managedObjectContext executeFetchRequest:fetchRequest error:&error];

    for (Employee *emp in fetchedObjects) {

        [app.managedObjectContext deleteObject:emp];

    }

    Employee *emp;

    NSArray* employees = [data objectForKey:@"Result"];

    int loop = 1;

    for (NSDictionary *employee in employees)

    {

        NSDictionary *data = employee[@"EmployeeId"];

        NSString *empid = data[@"DisplayValue"];

        emp = [NSEntityDescription insertNewObjectForEntityForName:@"Employee" inManagedObjectContext:app.managedObjectContext];

        emp.empid = empid;

        // build the code

        data = employee[@"StartDate"];

        NSString *startDate = data[@"DisplayValue"]; // 2000-06-19

        NSString *year = [startDate substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(9, 1)];

        NSString *month = [startDate substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(6, 1)];

        NSString *code = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@%04d",year,month,9999 - loop];

        emp.code = code;

        data = employee[@"EmailId"];

        NSString *email = data[@"DisplayValue"];

        emp.email = email;

        NSLog(@"%@ %@  > %@",email, empid, code);

        data = employee[@"FirstName"];

        NSString *firstName = data[@"DisplayValue"];

        data = employee[@"LastName"];

        NSString *lastName = data[@"DisplayValue"];

        emp.name = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %@", firstName, lastName];

        if (![app.managedObjectContext save:&error])

            NSLog(@"Whoops, couldn't save: %@", [error localizedDescription]);

        loop++;

    }

}

Thanks,

Customer Services Team