Any way to get the response body during HTTP errors?

Question

I\'m hitting an API that will occasionally throw a HTTP 403 error, and the response body can give some extra information in the form of json, however for the life of me I ca

Answer 1

I asked this question on their github page and got an answer from cnoon:

swift 2:

if let data = response.data {
    let json = String(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)
    print("Failure Response: \(json)")
}

swift 3:

if let data = response.data {
    let json = String(data: data, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8)
    print("Failure Response: \(json)")
}

https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire/issues/1059

I just left out the encoding part, by doing this you are able to get the response json even in the case of errors.

Answer 2

Swift 5 to get body response easily in DefaultDataResponse extension :

String(data: data!, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8)