Find documentation and support on Yahoo! Developer Network: http://developer.yahoo.com
- Yahoo! Application Platform - http://developer.yahoo.com/yap/
- Yahoo! Social APIs - http://developer.yahoo.com/social/
- Yahoo! Query Language - http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
Hosted on GitHub: http://github.com/yahoo/yos-social-objc/tree/master
Software License Agreement (BSD License)
Copyright (c) 2009, Yahoo! Inc.
All rights reserved.
- YOAuth
- YOSSocial
Redistribution and use of this software in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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This software additionally references or incorporates the following sources of intellectual property, the license terms for which are set forth in the sources themselves:
The following dependencies are bundled with the Yahoo! Social SDK, but are under terms of a separate license:
- json-framework - http://code.google.com/p/json-framework/
- OAuthConsumer Crypto - http://oauth.googlecode.com/svn/code/obj-c/OAuthConsumer/Crypto/
Include the YOAuth, YOSSocial and json-framework groups into your Xcode project path. Then, include the YOSSocial.h header into your code.
#import "YOSSocial.h"
To use Yahoo! Web Services, we need some information about you and the application you're building. Sign up for a new application ID to get your OAuth consumer key & secret.
- YDN Developer Dashboard - https://developer.yahoo.com/dashboard/
- New Application Form - https://developer.yahoo.com/dashboard/createKey.html
A session hold three important objects: a YDN Application ID, an OAuth consumer and an OAuth access token. These objects provide the credentials needed to initialize requests and sign using OAuth. To create a new session using YOSSession, initialize it by using your consumer key, consumer secret and application ID you just got as parameters.
// create a session by passing our
// consumer key, consumer secret and application id.
YOSSession *session = [YOSSession sessionWithConsumerKey:@"Key"
andConsumerSecret:@"Secret"
andApplicationId:@"AppID"];
Because a session can persistent you next check for an existing user session. If a user session does not exist yet, they must login in order for the application to gain access to their protected user information. (profile, connections, updates, etc.) Alternatively, if a session exists, the session will automatically fetch a new access token to renew the session.
// try to resume a user session if one exists
BOOL hasSession = [session resumeSession];
if(hasSession == FALSE) {
[session sendUserToAuthorizationWithCallbackUrl:nil];
}else{
[self sendRequests];
}
Now that we have a ready session, we can now access social information for the logged-in user. The depth of user data you can access will depend on the permissions for which your application asked.
Each 'GET' method of YOSUserRequest creates an asynchronous request with the delegate you provided. When the request is returned, the delegate method 'requestDidFinishLoading' is invoked with a YOSResponseData object containing the NSHTTPURLResponse object, NSData response object, a responseText string and an NSError object (if an error occurred) for which your application should handle.
To work with the response data object, parse the response text (defaults to encoded JSON data) using the methods from json-framework.
- (void)sendRequests {
// initialize a user request for the logged-in user
YOSUserRequest *request = [YOSUserRequest requestWithSession:session];
// fetch the user's profile data
YOSResponseData *userProfileResponse = [request fetchProfileWithDelegate:self];
}
- (void)requestDidFinishLoading:(YOSResponseData *)data {
// parse the response text string into a dictionary
NSDictionary *rspData = [data.responseText JSONValue];
NSDictionary *profileData = [rspData objectForKey:@"profile"];
// format a string using the nickname object from the profile.
NSString *welcomeText = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Hey %@ %@!",
[profileData objectForKey:@"givenName"],
[profileData objectForKey:@"familyName"]];
}
Yahoo! provides two means for you to share your user's activities back to other Yahoo! users:
Status: A line of text describing what a user is currently doing.
Updates: A user's stream of shared activities. (Each containing, at the very least, a line of developer-supplied text, your icon and a link back to your application.)
You can use these channels to advertise your user's use of your app to a large audience of Yahoo! users, driving this larger group to your product.
The sample code below shows how to set a user's status and post an update to their activity stream.
Status:
// get the logged-in user
YOSUserRequest *request = [YOSUserRequest requestWithSession:session];
// set the user's current status message
[request setStatus:@"is hacking"];
Updates:
YOSUserRequest *request = [YOSUserRequest requestWithSession:session];
[request insertUpdateWithTitle:@"installed Foo app on their iPhone"
andDescription:@""
andLink:@"http://myapplication.com/download"
andDate:nil
andSuid:[request generateUniqueSuid]];
Synchronous :
YQLQueryRequest *request = [YQLQueryRequest requestWithSession:self.session];
NSString *structuredLocationQuery = [NSString
stringWithFormat:@"select * from geo.places where text=\"sfo\""];
YOSResponseData *data = [request query:structuredLocationQuery];
NSDictionary *rspData = [data.responseText JSONValue];
NSDictionary *queryData = [rspData objectForKey:@"query"];
NSDictionary *results = [queryData objectForKey:@"results"];
NSLog(@"%@", [results description]);
Asynchronous:
- (void)sendRequests {
YQLQueryRequest *request = [YQLQueryRequest requestWithSession:self.session];
NSString *structuredLocationQuery = [NSString
stringWithFormat:@"select * from geo.places where text=\"sfo\""];
[request query:structuredLocationQuery withDelegate:self];
}
- (void)requestDidFinishLoading:(YOSResponseData *)data {
NSDictionary *rspData = [data.responseText JSONValue];
NSDictionary *queryData = [rspData objectForKey:@"query"];
NSDictionary *results = [queryData objectForKey:@"results"];
NSLog(@"%@", [results description]);
}
Use of the Yahoo! Social APIs is governed by the Yahoo! APIs Terms of Use. Your use of YQL is subject to the YQL Terms of Service.