Calling web services with the help of AFNetworking in Objective C - ios

Question

I am using NSURLConnection method to call the web services what I want is to replace it with 3rd party library AFNetworking how shall I achieve this I am calling the web Services with data first time here is what I am doing currently.
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
NSURL * linkUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:#URLBase];
NSMutableURLRequest *theRequest = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:linkUrl];
NSString *msgLength = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%lu", (unsigned long)[str length]];
[theRequest addValue: #"text/plain; charset=utf-8" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Type"];
[theRequest addValue: msgLength forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Length"];
[theRequest setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
[theRequest setHTTPBody: [str dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSURLConnection *theConnection = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:theRequest delegate:self];
if( theConnection )
{
webData = [[NSMutableData alloc] init];
}
else
{
NSLog(#"theConnection is NULL");
}
}
#pragma mark -- Connection Delegate
-(void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveResponse:(NSURLResponse *)response
{
//NSLog(#"%#",response);
//[webData setLength: 0];
}
-(void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data
{
[webData appendData:data];
}
-(void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didFailWithError:(NSError *)error
{
NSLog(#"\nERROR with theConenction");
}
-(void)connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection *)connection
{
NSString *responseDataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:webData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(#"Converted NSData %# ",responseDataString);
}
here
[theRequest setHTTPBody: [str dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
str is my encrypted data like username and password.
thanks in advance.!

Answer 1

You need to send POST request to your web services. You can use below code snippet for old way.
NSString *post = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#&value=%#&value=%#&value=%#&value=%#&value=%#",self.Comment_Memberid,self.SharedID,self.Post_Ownerid,self.commentText.text,email_stored,password_stored];
NSData *postData = [post dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init];
[request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"http://.../api/json/postcomment/"]]];
[request setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
[request setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%lu", (unsigned long)[postData length]] forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Length"];
[request setValue:#"text/plain; charset=utf-8" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-type"];
//[request setValue:#"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-type"];
[request setHTTPBody:postData];
//get response
NSHTTPURLResponse* urlResponse = nil;
NSError *error = [[NSError alloc] init];
NSData *responseData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&urlResponse error:&error];
NSString *result = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:responseData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(#"Response Code: %ld", (long)[urlResponse statusCode]);
if ([urlResponse statusCode] == 200)
{
}
And if you want to send POST request using with AFNetworking you can use below code:
AFHTTPSessionManager *manager = [AFHTTPSessionManager manager];
NSDictionary *params = #{#"34": x,
#"130": y};
[manager POST:#"https://../api/json/cordinates" parameters:params progress:nil success:^(NSURLSessionTask *task, id responseObject) {
NSLog(#"JSON: %#", responseObject);
} failure:^(NSURLSessionTask *operation, NSError *error) {
NSLog(#"Error: %#", error);
}];