Handle HTTP error with NSURLSession?

Question

I\'m trying to send a HTTP request with NSURLSession. It works fine, but when the server doesn\'t respond I can\'t find where the HTTP error code is stored. The

Answer 1

The second parameter of the completionHandler is the NSURLResponse, which when doing a HTTP request, is generally a NSHTTPURLResponse. So, you'd generally do something like:

NSURLSessionDataTask *dataTask = [session dataTaskWithRequest:[self postRequestWithURLString:apiEntry parameters:parameters] completionHandler:^(NSData *data, NSURLResponse *response, NSError *error) {

    // handle basic connectivity issues here

    if (error) {
        NSLog(@"dataTaskWithRequest error: %@", error);
        return;
    }

    // handle HTTP errors here

    if ([response isKindOfClass:[NSHTTPURLResponse class]]) {

        NSInteger statusCode = [(NSHTTPURLResponse *)response statusCode];

        if (statusCode != 200) {
            NSLog(@"dataTaskWithRequest HTTP status code: %d", statusCode);
            return;
        }
    }

    // otherwise, everything is probably fine and you should interpret the `data` contents

    NSLog(@"data: %@", [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]);
}];
[dataTask resume];