Implement LRS With Tin Can API for iPhone

Question

I have to create a project in iPhone which uses the Tin Can API. The Tin Can API is an advanced distributed learning process.

I have no idea about where to start in Objective-C.

I have read the site http://tincanapi.com.

For implementation, I have some basic questions:

1. How and to create my own LRS?
2. How Tin Can API can communicate with my own LRS and LMS with ASIHTTPRequest programatically?

Answer 1

There are two parts to TinCanAPI at play here. I'm suspecting you only need to handle one of them on iPhone. One part is the client-side that sends the statement date to the second part (the LRS server-side). It would be very odd to create the LRS server part on an iOS device, so I'm going with the thought that you need to send TinCan statements from an iOS device to an existing LRS.

An LRS accepts statement data via a REST interface and this data can be POSTed using a standard NSURLConnection or using AFNetworking. There are a couple of options for abstracting all those calls with a library one of which is a new OSS version of the basics appearing very soon from Rustici Software found here http://rusticisoftware.github.io/TinCanObjC/. There is no link for it just yet, but feel free to contact me for more details and I'll update this answer with the link as soon as there is a public link.

For your specific questions:

1.) You can create your own LRS by understanding the spec document and creating the REST endpoints as specified. This is not a trivial undertaking by any means.

2.) Your best bet is to use an SDK or simple GET and PUT/POST statements from AFNetworking to the TCAPI endpoint.