AFNetworking: Handle error globally and repeat request

Question

I have a use case that should be rather common but I can\'t find an easy way to handle it with AFNetworking:

Whenever the server returns a specific status code for <

Answer 1

I use an alternative means for doing this with AFNetworking 2.0.

You can subclass dataTaskWithRequest:success:failure: and wrap the passed completion block with some error checking. For example, if you're working with OAuth, you could watch for a 401 error (expiry) and refresh your access token.

- (NSURLSessionDataTask *)dataTaskWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)urlRequest completionHandler:(void (^)(NSURLResponse *response, id responseObject, NSError *error))originalCompletionHandler{

    //create a completion block that wraps the original
    void (^authFailBlock)(NSURLResponse *response, id responseObject, NSError *error) = ^(NSURLResponse *response, id responseObject, NSError *error)
    {
        NSHTTPURLResponse* httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse*)response;
        if([httpResponse statusCode] == 401){
            NSLog(@"401 auth error!");
            //since there was an error, call you refresh method and then redo the original task
            dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_LOW, 0), ^{

                //call your method for refreshing OAuth tokens.  This is an example:
                [self refreshAccessToken:^(id responseObject) {

                    NSLog(@"response was %@", responseObject);
                    //store your new token

                    //now, queue up and execute the original task               
                    NSURLSessionDataTask *originalTask = [super dataTaskWithRequest:urlRequest completionHandler:originalCompletionHandler];
                    [originalTask resume];
                }];                    
            });
        }else{
            NSLog(@"no auth error");
            originalCompletionHandler(response, responseObject, error);
        }
    };

    NSURLSessionDataTask *task = [super dataTaskWithRequest:urlRequest completionHandler:authFailBlock];

    return task;

}