NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest: How to check finished status code? - ios

Question

So I have some code like so:
#interface RequestHandler()
#property (nonatomic) NSInteger statusCode;
#end
#implementation RequestHandler
- (bool)sendRequest:(NSString *)surveyorId withData:(NSData *)requestData
{
[[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request delegate:self startImmediately:true];
if (self.statusCode == 200)
{
return YES;
}
return NO;
}
Clearly the routine will carry on into the if-else statement before the request has finished. Therefore, self.statusCode is not set properly in the delegate didReceiveResponse before it is checked. What would be the best way of doing this?
I am just thinking of adding another bool property that will be set in connectionDidFinishLoading and then loop until this property is set. Once it has done that, then it will check self.statusCode. However I am thinking this will block the thread will it not? It will be no different from a sendSynchronousRequest right? Is there any way to do this without putting it into a background thread?

Answer 1

Instead of your sendRequest:withData: method returning a BOOL indicating success/failure, it would be better for your RequestHandler to have a delegate. It could then let its delegate know about the success/failure/whatever else when the asynchronous request has finished, instead of trying to return this information from the sendRequest:withData: method (which, as you've found out, doesn't work so well).
So, you could define you delegate protocol something like this (just as an example - you might want to include some more information in these):
#protocol RequestHandlerDelegate <NSObject>
- (void)requestHandlerSuccessfullyCompletedRequest:(RequestHandler *)sender;
- (void)requestHandlerFailedToCompletedRequest:(RequestHandler *)sender;
#end
Then, give your RequestHandler a delegate property of something that conforms to this protocol:
#property (nonatomic, weak) id<RequestHandlerDelegate> delegate;
(Make sure you set something as the delegate!)
Then, when your asynchronous request completes, you can send your delegate the appropriate message, e.g.:
[self.delegate requestHandlerSuccessfullyCompletedRequest:self];
You'll need to implement the NSURLConnection delegate methods in RequestHandler (from your code, I assume you've already done that), or, if your are targeting iOS 7+, you could take a look at NSURLSession instead.

Answer 2

You have to implement 2 delegate methods:
Status code: - (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveResponse:(NSURLResponse *)response
Received data: - (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection
didReceiveData:(NSData *)data
Example usage:
Declaration
#interface RequestHandler : NSObject <NSURLConnectionDelegate>
{
NSMutableData *receivedData;
}
Request
- (void)sendRequest:(NSString *)surveyorId withData:(NSData *)requestData
{
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init];
// Apply params in http body
if (requestData) {
[request setHTTPBody:requestData];
}
[request setURL:url];
NSURLConnection *connection = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request delegate:self];
[connection start];
}
Delegates
- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveResponse:(NSURLResponse *)response
{
NSHTTPURLResponse *responseCode = (NSHTTPURLResponse *)response;
if ([self.delegate respondsToSelector:#selector(didReceiveResponseCode:)]) {
[self.delegate didReceiveResponseCode:responseCode];
}
}
- (void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection didReceiveData:(NSData *)data
{
receivedData = [[NSMutableData alloc] initWithData:data];
if ([self.delegate respondsToSelector:#selector(connectionSucceedWithData:)]) {
[self.delegate connectionSucceedWithData:receivedData];
}
}

Answer 3

Instead of using NSURLConnection with delegate methods you can use NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest block in your code. In the example you can check connection error and compare status codes.
NSURL *URL = [NSURL URLWithString:#"http://yourURLHere.com"];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:URL];
[NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest:request queue:[NSOperationQueue mainQueue] completionHandler:^(NSURLResponse *rspreportStatus, NSData *datareportStatus, NSError *e)
{
NSHTTPURLResponse* httpResponse = (NSHTTPURLResponse*)rspreportStatus;
int code = [httpResponse statusCode];
if (e == nil && code == 200)
{
// SUCCESS
} else {
// NOT SUCCESS
}
}];

Answer 4

You can also check by logging this returnString.
NSData *returnData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:nil error:nil];
NSString *returnString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:returnData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSArray *arrpicResult = [returnString JSONValue];