AFNetworking - Using AFHTTPRequestOperation to download file?

Question

Man, stumped on this one. Trying to download a file with AFNetworking and the best I can do is capture the progress bytes in the downloadProgressBlock. I\'ve tried many differ

Answer 1

You can simply use this feature that is included on AFNetworking and even save it to disk - Notice the operation.outputStream:

NSMutableURLRequest* rq = [api requestWithMethod:@"GET" path:@"YOUR/URL/TO/FILE" parameters:nil];
AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation = [[[AFHTTPRequestOperation alloc] initWithRequest:rq] autorelease];

NSString* path=[@"/PATH/TO/APP" stringByAppendingPathComponent: imageNameToDisk];
operation.outputStream = [NSOutputStream outputStreamToFileAtPath:path append:NO];

[operation setCompletionBlockWithSuccess:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {

    NSLog(@"SUCCCESSFULL IMG RETRIEVE to %@!",path)

} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {

    // Deal with failure
}];

EDIT : missed

[operation start]; 

EDIT : ...or if you use an AFHTTPClient * apiClient :

// [apiClient enqueueHTTPRequestOperation:operation];