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The Objective-C WebViewController from my blog entry An iOS5 Ready Native Web App Template http://www.bitwit.ca/blog/an-ios5-ready-native-web-app-template/
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@class WebViewControllerDelegate;
@interface WebViewController : UIViewController <UIWebViewDelegate>
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIWebView *webView;
@property (nonatomic, strong) WebViewControllerDelegate *functionDelegate;
-(void)loadPageWithURL:(NSString *)url;
-(void)loadPageFromFile:(NSString *)html;
@end
#import "WebViewController.h"
#import "WebViewControllerDelegate.h"
@implementation WebViewController
@synthesize webView;
@synthesize functionDelegate;
- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning {
// Releases the view if it doesn't have a superview.
[super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
// Release any cached data, images, etc that aren't in use.
}
#pragma mark - View lifecycle
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
//make a frame fore the webview based on the view's frame
CGRect frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.frame.size.width, self.view.frame.size.height);
self.webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
[self.view addSubview:webView];
//UIWebViewDelegate will be self
[webView setDelegate:self];
// Web Requests that start with the scheme "objc://" will be caught and sent to the WebViewControllerDelegate
self.functionDelegate = [[WebViewControllerDelegate alloc] init];
functionDelegate.webViewController = self;
}
- (void)viewDidUnload {
[super viewDidUnload];
self.webView = nil;
self.functionDelegate = nil;
}
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
// Return YES for supported orientations
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}
#pragma mark - StackingWebViewController
/* Loads a URL string into the webview */
- (void)loadPageWithURL:(NSString *)url {
NSURL *theURL = [NSURL URLWithString:url];
NSURLRequest *theRequest = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:theURL];
[webView loadRequest:theRequest];
}
/* Loads page from file */
- (void)loadPageFromFile:(NSString *)html {
//First we load up the index.html file
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:[html stringByDeletingPathExtension] ofType:@"html"];
NSData *htmlData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:path];
// Next we need to set up a proper base URL for our files
NSString *resourceURL = [[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath];
// The URL in the raw still needs some cleaning
// Need to be double-slashes to work correctly with UIWebView, so change all "/" to "//"
resourceURL = [resourceURL stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"/" withString:@"//"];
// Also need to replace all spaces with "%20"
resourceURL = [resourceURL stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" " withString:@"%20"];
//And make a proper URL
NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"file:/%@//", resourceURL]];
//Finally let's load up the html data and passthe Base URL for the CSS and Javascript files
[webView loadData:htmlData MIMEType:@"text/html" textEncodingName:@"UTF-8" baseURL:baseURL];
}
#pragma mark - UIWebViewDelegate
- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {
//This will catch clicked links and location changes made from Javascript, but no other request types
if (navigationType == UIWebViewNavigationTypeLinkClicked || navigationType == UIWebViewNavigationTypeOther)
{
NSURL *URL = [request URL]; //Get the URL
//The [URL scheme] is the "http" or "ftp" portion, for example
//so let's make one up that isn't used at all -&gt; "objc"
//
if ( [[URL scheme] isEqualToString:@"objc"] ) {
//The [URL host] is the next part of the link
//so we can use that like a selector
NSString *selectorName = [URL host];
id data = nil;
NSMutableArray *parameters = [NSMutableArray array];
if ( ![[URL path] isEqualToString:@""] )
{
selectorName = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@:", selectorName];
parameters = [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray: [[URL path] componentsSeparatedByString:@"/"] ];
[parameters removeObjectAtIndex:0]; //first object is just a slash "/"
if ( [parameters count] == 1 ){
data = [parameters objectAtIndex:0];
}
else{
data = parameters;
}
}
SEL method = NSSelectorFromString( selectorName );
if ([functionDelegate respondsToSelector:method])
{
//This line may give a warning but that's ok, we are being memory concious
// See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7017281/performselector-may-cause-a-leak-because-its-selector-is-unknown
[functionDelegate performSelector:method withObject:data];
}
return NO;
}
}
return YES;
}
@end
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