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

Here is the Swift implementation of user @adamup 's answer

class SessionManager:AFHTTPSessionManager{
static let sharedInstance = SessionManager()
override func dataTaskWithRequest(request: NSURLRequest!, completionHandler: ((NSURLResponse!, AnyObject!, NSError!) -> Void)!) -> NSURLSessionDataTask! {

    var authFailBlock : (response:NSURLResponse!, responseObject:AnyObject!, error:NSError!) -> Void = {(response:NSURLResponse!, responseObject:AnyObject!, error:NSError!) -> Void in

        var httpResponse = response as! NSHTTPURLResponse

        if httpResponse.statusCode == 401 {
            //println("auth failed")

            dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_LOW, 0), { () -> Void in

                self.refreshToken(){ token -> Void in
                    if let tkn = token{
                        var mutableRequest = request.mutableCopy() as! NSMutableURLRequest
                        mutableRequest.setValue(tkn, forHTTPHeaderField: "Authorization")
                        var newRequest = mutableRequest.copy() as! NSURLRequest
                        var originalTask = super.dataTaskWithRequest(newRequest, completionHandler: completionHandler)
                        originalTask.resume()
                    }else{
                        completionHandler(response,responseObject,error)
                    }

                }
            })
        }
        else{
            //println("no auth error")
            completionHandler(response,responseObject,error)
        }
    }
    var task = super.dataTaskWithRequest(request, completionHandler:authFailBlock )

    return task
}}

where refreshToken (...) is an extension method I wrote to get a new token from the server.