Yes! Alamofire is basically a wrapper around NSURLSession. Its manager uses a default NSURLSessionConfiguration by calling defaultSessionConfiguration(). As its github page says under Advanced Usage section: Alamofire is built on NSURLSession and the Foundation URL Loading System. To make the most of this framework, it is recommended that you be familiar with the concepts and … Read more
Handling refresh for 401 responses in an oauth flow is quite complicated given the parallel nature of NSURLSessions. I have spent quite some time building an internal solution that has worked extremely well for us. The following is a very high level extraction of the general idea of how it was implemented. import Foundation import … Read more
I used to use this statements: let destination = DownloadRequest.suggestedDownloadDestination(for: .documentDirectory) Alamofire.download( url, method: .get, parameters: parameters, encoding: JSONEncoding.default, headers: nil, to: destination).downloadProgress(closure: { (progress) in //progress closure }).response(completionHandler: { (DefaultDownloadResponse) in //here you able to access the DefaultDownloadResponse //result closure }) For more details read more in Alamofire docs about Migration to 4.0:
According to the Swift documentation : To use a reserved word as an identifier, put a backtick (`)before and after it. For example, class is not a valid identifier, but `class` is valid. The backticks are not considered part of the identifier; `x` and x have the same meaning. In your example, default is a … Read more
I must disagree with @Darko. In Swift 2, use protocol oriented programming and the simple reflection offered by Mirror class : protocol JSONAble {} extension JSONAble { func toDict() -> [String:Any] { var dict = [String:Any]() let otherSelf = Mirror(reflecting: self) for child in otherSelf.children { if let key = child.label { dict[key] = child.value … Read more
As authors mention in Alamofire README.md: When should I use AFNetworking? UIKit extensions, such as asynchronously loading images to UIImageView So answer to your question : So is AFNetworking is better for this task? Yes! But if still want to use vanilla Alamofire project, you can fetch image this way: Alamofire.request(.GET, “https://robohash.org/123.png”).response { (request, response, … Read more
Are you sure that the 4 seconds timeout is not enforced? I have created an experiment: let center = NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter() var alamoFireManager : Alamofire.Manager? let configuration = NSURLSessionConfiguration.defaultSessionConfiguration() configuration.timeoutIntervalForRequest = 4 // seconds configuration.timeoutIntervalForResource = 4 self.alamoFireManager = Alamofire.Manager(configuration: configuration) self.alamoFireManager!.request(.POST, “http://oznet.go.ro/iDorMobile/ConfigServer/api.php/timeout/2”, parameters: nil).responseJSON { (req, res, json, error) in println(“First json \(json)”) println(“First error … Read more
For swift 5 and Alamofire 5.4.4 ,I created a swift class called Connectivity . Use NetworkReachabilityManager class from Alamofire and configure the isConnectedToInternet() method as per your need. import Foundation import Alamofire class Connectivity { class func isConnectedToInternet() -> Bool { return NetworkReachabilityManager()?.isReachable ?? false } } Usage: if Connectivity.isConnectedToInternet() { print(“Yes! internet is available.”) … Read more
Update Based on this amazing tutorial, I have put together an example project available on GitHub. It has an example for background session management. According to Apple’s URL Loading System Programming Guide: In both iOS and OS X, when the user relaunches your app, your app should immediately create background configuration objects with the same … Read more
Make sure you haven’t added any files from Alamofire to your project except for the Alamofire.xcodeproj Here is step by step instruction: Download and unarchive Alamofire Copy the root folder of Alamofire to any subfolder of your project. Libs, for example. Drag and drop Alamofire.xcodeproj to your Xcode project Open project settings of your project, … Read more