Ajax calls working in Android but not iOS - ios

Question

I'm developing an app in Nativescript for the first time and running into an issue where AJAX calls work on Android but not iOS. I have a login.js file which requires a user-view-model (user-view-model.js), and when I test the code on Android it takes me to the "home" page but it hits the catch function on iOS.
login.js:
var dialogsModule = require("ui/dialogs");
var UserViewModel = require("../../shared/view-models/user-view-model");
var applicationSettings = require("application-settings");
var user = new UserViewModel({
email: "aaa#aaa.com",
password: "aaa"
});
var frameModule = require("ui/frame");
var page;
exports.loaded = function(args) {
page = args.object;
page.bindingContext = user;
};
exports.login = function () {
user.login().catch(function(error) {
dialogsModule.alert({
message: "Unfortunately we could not find your account.",
okButtonText: "OK"
});
return Promise.reject();
}).then(function(response) {
console.dir(response)
console.log("past response")
applicationSettings.setString("user_id", response.user_id);
applicationSettings.setString("first_name", response.first_name);
applicationSettings.setString("last_name", response.last_name);
applicationSettings.setString("user_type", response.user_type);
var topmost = frameModule.topmost();
topmost.navigate("views/home/home");
});
};
user-view-model.js:
var config = require("../../shared/config");
var fetchModule = require("fetch");
var observableModule = require("data/observable");
var http = require("http");
function User(info) {
info = info || {};
var viewModel = new observableModule.fromObject({
email: info.email || "",
password: info.password || ""
});
viewModel.login = function() {
let loginEmail = JSON.stringify(this.get("email")).replace(/['"]+/g, '');
let loginPassword = JSON.stringify(this.get("password")).replace(/['"]+/g, '');
console.log(loginEmail, loginPassword);
let loginUrl = config.serverPHPServiceUrl + "Login.php?user_id=" + loginEmail + "&password=" + loginPassword;
console.log(loginUrl);
// I tried this way first and wasn't able to login on iOS, which made me try the second method below.
// return fetchModule.fetch(loginUrl, {
// method: "POST",
// headers: {
// "Content-Type": "application/json"
// }
// }).then(handleErrors).then(function(response) {
// return response.json();
// }).then(function(data) {
// console.dir(data);
// console.log(data["results"][0]["user_id"])
// return data["results"][0];
// });
// This method works on Android but not iOS.
return http.getJSON(loginUrl).then(function(response) {
console.dir(response);
return response.results[0];
})
};
return viewModel;
};
function handleErrors(response) {
console.log("in errors")
if (!response.ok) {
console.log(JSON.stringify(response));
throw Error(response.statusText);
}
return response;
}
module.exports = User;
Is there anything fundamentally wrong with my code, or do asynchronous calls work differently on iOS vs Android in Nativescript? I did the Grocery tutorial and didn't run into this issue, so I didn't think this was the case. Does it matter that the backend is using PHP?

Answer 1

I fixed my issue: I started a new project with Angular 2 and ran into the same error, but then it gave me the error message "Error: The resource could not be loaded because the App Transport Security policy requires the use of a secure connection." I solved it by adding "https" to my url call, but this post has another solution.