Subclass NSURLConnection

My recent work involves change two synchronous NSURLConnection to asynchronous, so loading data won't block UI.

I created a custom subclass of NSURLConnection to do this, with a tag I just need to specific the name of that connection at the time I created it, and then checking it while I receive data.

Here's the code:

.h file:

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface CustomURLConnection : NSURLConnection {

NSString *tag;

}

@property (nonatomic, retain) NSString *tag;

- (id)initWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request delegate:(id)delegate startImmediately:(BOOL)startImmediately tag:(NSString*)tag;

- (NSString *)tag;

@end

.m file:

#import "CustomURLConnection.h"

@implementation CustomURLConnection

@synthesize tag;

- (id)initWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request delegate:(id)delegate startImmediately:(BOOL)startImmediately tag:(NSString*)newTag {

self = [super initWithRequest:request delegate:delegate startImmediately:startImmediately];

if (self) {

self.tag = newTag;

}

return self;

}

- (void)dealloc {

[tag release];

[super dealloc];

}

- (NSString *)tag {

return tag;

}

@end

And I used it like this:

- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data

{

ALog(@"Connection %@ received data.", [(CustomURLConnection *)connection tag]);

if ([[(CustomURLConnection *)connection tag] isEqualToString:@"someConnection"]) {

[someData appendData:data];

}

else if ([[(CustomURLConnection *)connection tag] isEqualToString:@"someOtherConnection"]) {

[someOtherData appendData:data];

}

}