How do I make my AFNetworking “responseObject” that I receive a NSDictionary I can parse?

Question

I have this call with AFNetworking 1.0 that returns a responseObject with the data from the API that I want:

[[AFDiffbotClient sharedClient] postPath:@"http://diffbot.com/api/batch" parameters:parameters success:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {

However, I have no idea how to process responseObject.

If I check [responseObject class] I get NSData.

If I NSLog(@"%@", responseObject) I get a bunch of numbers (memory addresses I assume):

<5b0a7b22 68656164 65727322 3a5b7b22 6e616d65 223a6e75 6c6c2c22 76616c75 65223a22 48545450 2f312e31 20323030 204f4b22 7d2c7b22 6e616d65 223a2244 61746522 2c227661 ...

If I do:

NSString *responseString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:responseObject encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", responseString);

I get the output that I want! But, it's an NSString.

If I do:

NSError *error;
NSDictionary *responseDictionary = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:responseObject options:kNilOptions error:&error];
NSLog(@"%@", responseDictionary);

I get an NSDictionary, but it's missing the vast majority of the response (i.e.: I don't get what's included with the NSString method).

How should I be processing this object?

Answer 1

This is how I do it..

- (void) requestDataFinish:(NSData *)data withError:(NSError *)networkError
{
    NSDictionary *responseData;
    NSError *error = nil;
    if (data != nil) {
        responseData = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data
                                                       options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers
                                                         error:&error];
    }
...