Appareantly there is no AFImageRequestOperation, but only AFImageResponseSerializer and frankly I don\'t get it or maybe I\'m just looking too long
For people using AFNetworking in Swift, above solution can be written as below
let requestOperation : AFHTTPRequestOperation = AFHTTPRequestOperation(request: urlRequest)
requestOperation.responseSerializer = AFImageResponseSerializer()
requestOperation.setCompletionBlockWithSuccess({ (requestOperation, responseObject) in
print(responseObject)
_imageView.image = responseObject as? UIImage
}) { (requestOperation, error) in
print(error)
}
requestOperation.start()