Uploads using backgroundSessionConfiguration and NSURLSessionUploadTask cause app to crash

Question

I\'m trying out the new fancy iOS 7 background uploading using NSURLSessionUploadTask and it seems to work when I run with defaultSessionConfiguration, but once I try backgr

Answer 1

Okay, so this was kind of just me being foolish and not thorough here:

1) I'd set an exception breakpoint to get stack traces that was preventing me from see the actual exception error printout -- oops.

2) Can't use version of uploadTaskWithRequest that has a completion callback for a backgroundSessionConfiguration (not surprising but still not well documented).

3) Write your PNG data to /var/... and provide it to uploadTaskWithRequest with file:///var/... (this is just awkward because you don't often need to convert between the two for a single sequence of commands)

Happy to put up a NSUrlSessionUploadTask sample code here, since there seems to be zero of them on the entire interwebs. LMK if anyone wants that.