How to set HTTP request body using AFNetwork's AFHTTPRequestOperationManager?

Question

I am using AFHTTPRequestOperationManager (2.0 AFNetworking library) for a REST POST request. But the manager only have the call to set the parameters.

-((AFHTTPRequestOperation *)POST:(NSString *)URLString
                  parameters:(NSDictionary *)parameters
                     success:(void (^)(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject))success
                     failure:(void (^)(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error))failure;

I need to set HTTP request body with a string as well. How can I do it using the AFHTTPRequestOperationManager? Thanks.

Answer 1

I had the same problem and solved it by adding code as shown below:

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:URL
              cachePolicy:NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringCacheData  timeoutInterval:10];

[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[request setValue:@"Basic: someValue" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"];
[request setValue: @"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
[request setHTTPBody: [body dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

AFHTTPRequestOperation *op = [[AFHTTPRequestOperation alloc] initWithRequest:request];
op.responseSerializer = [AFJSONResponseSerializer serializer];
[op setCompletionBlockWithSuccess:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {

    NSLog(@"JSON responseObject: %@ ",responseObject);

} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
    NSLog(@"Error: %@", [error localizedDescription]);

}];
[op start];