Handle No Internet Connection Error Before Try to Parse the Result in Alamofire

Question

How should I handle if there is an error occurs when there is no internet connection in Alamofire. I tried checking if data is nil or not but it does not work.

Below

Answer 1

Details

• Xcode 10.2.1 (10E1001), Swift 5

Prepare

Edit NSAppTransportSecurity in Info.plist:

Code:

NSAppTransportSecurity
    
    NSAllowsArbitraryLoads

Sample 1 (need Alamofire pod)

Use Network Reachability

import UIKit
import Alamofire

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        let button = UIButton(frame: .init(x: 80, y: 80, width: 100, height: 40))
        button.setTitle("Check", for: .normal)
        button.addTarget(self, action: #selector(checkInternetConnection), for: .touchUpInside)
        button.setTitleColor(.blue, for: .normal)
        view.addSubview(button)
    }

    @objc func checkInternetConnection() {
        guard let networkReachabilityManager = NetworkReachabilityManager(host: "http://google.com") else { return }
        networkReachabilityManager.listener = { [weak self] status in
            let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Network Status ", message: "\(status)", preferredStyle: .alert)
            alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: .default, handler: { [weak alert] _ in
                alert?.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
            }))
            self?.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
        }
        networkReachabilityManager.startListening()
    }
}

Sample 2 (need Alamofire pod)

import UIKit
import Alamofire

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    private lazy var networkManager = NetworkManager()

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        let button = UIButton(frame: .init(x: 80, y: 80, width: 100, height: 40))
        button.setTitle("Check", for: .normal)
        button.addTarget(self, action: #selector(checkInternetConnection), for: .touchUpInside)
        button.setTitleColor(.blue, for: .normal)
        view.addSubview(button)
    }

    @objc func checkInternetConnection() {
        let urlString = "http://dummy.restapiexample.com/api/v1/employees"
        networkManager.sessionManager.request(urlString).validate().response { response in
            print("\(response.data as Any)")
        }
    }
}


class NetworkManager {
    lazy var sessionManager: SessionManager = {
        let configuration = URLSessionConfiguration.default
        configuration.httpCookieStorage = nil
        configuration.httpCookieAcceptPolicy = HTTPCookie.AcceptPolicy.never
        let manager = SessionManager(configuration: configuration)
        manager.retrier = self
        return manager
    }()
}

extension NetworkManager: RequestRetrier {
    func should(_ manager: SessionManager, retry request: Request, with error: Error, completion: @escaping RequestRetryCompletion) {
        let error = error as NSError
        switch error.code {
            case -1009:
                DispatchQueue.main.async {
                    let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Error", message: error.localizedDescription, preferredStyle: .alert)
                    alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: .default, handler: { [weak alert] _ in
                        alert?.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
                    }))
                    UIApplication.topMostViewController?.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
                }
            default: break
        }
        print("-- Error code: \(error.code)")
        print("-- Error descriptiom: \(error.localizedDescription)")
    }
}


// https://stackoverflow.com/a/52932487
extension UIViewController {
    var topMostViewController: UIViewController {

        if let presented = self.presentedViewController {
            return presented.topMostViewController
        }

        if let navigation = self as? UINavigationController {
            return navigation.visibleViewController?.topMostViewController ?? navigation
        }

        if let tab = self as? UITabBarController {
            return tab.selectedViewController?.topMostViewController ?? tab
        }
        return self
    }
}

extension UIApplication {
    class var topMostViewController : UIViewController? {
        return UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.rootViewController?.topMostViewController
    }
}

Sample 3 (without third party library)

More info: How to use SCNetworkReachability in Swift

import UIKit
import SystemConfiguration

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        let button = UIButton(frame: .init(x: 80, y: 80, width: 100, height: 40))
        button.setTitle("Check", for: .normal)
        button.addTarget(self, action: #selector(checkInternetConnection), for: .touchUpInside)
        button.setTitleColor(.blue, for: .normal)
        view.addSubview(button)
    }

    @objc func checkInternetConnection() {
        print("-- \(URLSession.connectedToNetwork())")
    }
}

extension URLSession {
    class func connectedToNetwork() -> Bool {
        var zeroAddress = sockaddr()
        zeroAddress.sa_len = UInt8(MemoryLayout.size)
        zeroAddress.sa_family = sa_family_t(AF_INET)
        guard let networkReachability = SCNetworkReachabilityCreateWithAddress(nil, &zeroAddress) else { return false }
        var flags = SCNetworkReachabilityFlags()
        SCNetworkReachabilitySetDispatchQueue(networkReachability, DispatchQueue.global(qos: .default))
        if SCNetworkReachabilityGetFlags(networkReachability, &flags) == false { return false }
        let isReachable = flags.contains(.reachable)
        let needsConnection = flags.contains(.connectionRequired)
        return isReachable && !needsConnection
    }
}

Sample 4 (need Reachability.swift pod)

import UIKit
import Reachability

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        let button = UIButton(frame: .init(x: 80, y: 80, width: 100, height: 40))
        button.setTitle("Check", for: .normal)
        button.addTarget(self, action: #selector(checkInternetConnection), for: .touchUpInside)
        button.setTitleColor(.blue, for: .normal)
        view.addSubview(button)
    }

    @objc func checkInternetConnection() {
        guard let reachability = Reachability(hostname: "google.com", queueQoS: .utility) else { return }
        try? reachability.startNotifier()
        print("-- \(reachability.connection as Any)")
    }
}