AFNetworking 2.0 AFHTTPSessionManager: how to get status code and response JSON in failure block?

Question

When switched to AFNetworking 2.0 the AFHTTPClient has been replaced by AFHTTPRequestOperationManager / AFHTTPSessionManager (as mentioned in the migration guide). The very

Answer 1

After of read and research for several days, It worked for me:

1) You have to build your own subclass of AFJSONResponseSerializer

File : JSONResponseSerializerWithData.h:

#import "AFURLResponseSerialization.h"

/// NSError userInfo key that will contain response data
static NSString * const JSONResponseSerializerWithDataKey = @"JSONResponseSerializerWithDataKey";

@interface JSONResponseSerializerWithData : AFJSONResponseSerializer
@end

File: JSONResponseSerializerWithData.m

#import "JSONResponseSerializerWithData.h"

@implementation JSONResponseSerializerWithData

- (id)responseObjectForResponse:(NSURLResponse *)response
                           data:(NSData *)data
                          error:(NSError *__autoreleasing *)error
{
    id JSONObject = [super responseObjectForResponse:response data:data error:error];
    if (*error != nil) {
        NSMutableDictionary *userInfo = [(*error).userInfo mutableCopy];
        if (data == nil) {
//          // NOTE: You might want to convert data to a string here too, up to you.
//          userInfo[JSONResponseSerializerWithDataKey] = @"";
            userInfo[JSONResponseSerializerWithDataKey] = [NSData data];
        } else {
//          // NOTE: You might want to convert data to a string here too, up to you.
//          userInfo[JSONResponseSerializerWithDataKey] = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
            userInfo[JSONResponseSerializerWithDataKey] = data;
        }
        NSError *newError = [NSError errorWithDomain:(*error).domain code:(*error).code userInfo:userInfo];
        (*error) = newError;
    }

    return (JSONObject);
}

2) Setup your own JSONResponseSerializer in your AFHTTPSessionManager

+ (instancetype)sharedManager
{
    static CustomSharedManager *manager = nil;
    static dispatch_once_t onceToken;
    dispatch_once(&onceToken, ^{
        manager = [[CustomSharedManager alloc] initWithBaseURL:<# your base URL #>];

        // *** Use our custom response serializer ***
        manager.responseSerializer = [JSONResponseSerializerWithData serializer];
    });

    return (manager);
}

Source: http://blog.gregfiumara.com/archives/239