RESTKit errors on requests with long query strings about salesforcemobilesdk-ios

[tstellanova-sfdc]

Looks like this is buried down in RestKit ...will take a look

[tstellanova-sfdc]

It seems someone has reported this issue with RestKit previously (see RestKit/RestKit#321)
No fix posted on RestKit yet.

[jhersh]

Ah, unfortunate :/ Looks like all my retrieves will be stuck on SOAP.

[jhersh]

That issue thread suggests what seems to be a simple enough fix. Perhaps we could implement it here?

[jhersh]

It's worth noting that this impacts more than retrieve. I hit this same error while performing a SOSL search, so this may manifest in any REST request with a sufficiently large query string. I am having to revert to SOAP calls for many of my requests. :(

[tstellanova-sfdc]

Yeah it sounds like the right way to fix this would be to submit a fix to RestKit. At the moment we use a simple submodule reference to a specific RestKit version. However, for PhoneGap/callback-ios we actually reference our own fork to decouple ourselves a bit from the churn on PhoneGap (now "cordova-ios"). We could do something similar with RestKit since we're probably overdue for a RestKit refresh anyway. I'll discuss with the team internally. This is an important issue and we don't want to let it slip through the cracks.

[tstellanova-sfdc]

First step is in progress. See:
#28

[tstellanova-sfdc]

fixed with latest code