AFNetworking and POST Request

Question

I'm getting this response in error.userInfo while making a POST request from AFNetworking. Can anyone tell either I'm missing anything obvious or something need to fix at my server end?

Request Failed with Error: Error Domain=AFNetworkingErrorDomain Code=-1016 "Expected content type {( "text/json", "application/json", "text/javascript" )}, got text/html" UserInfo=0x6d7a730 {NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=index test, AFNetworkingOperationFailingURLResponseErrorKey=, NSErrorFailingURLKey=http://54.245.14.201/, NSLocalizedDescription=Expected content type {( "text/json", "application/json", "text/javascript" )}, got text/html, AFNetworkingOperationFailingURLRequestErrorKey=http://54.245.14.201/>}, { AFNetworkingOperationFailingURLRequestErrorKey = "http://54.245.14.201/>"; AFNetworkingOperationFailingURLResponseErrorKey = ""; NSErrorFailingURLKey = "http://54.245.14.201/"; NSLocalizedDescription = "Expected content type {(\n \"text/json\",\n \"application/json\",\n
\"text/javascript\"\n)}, got text/html"; NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion = "index test"; }

And I'm using this code;

AFHTTPClient *httpClient = [[AFHTTPClient alloc] initWithBaseURL:url];
[httpClient registerHTTPOperationClass:[AFJSONRequestOperation class]];
[httpClient setDefaultHeader:@"Accept" value:@"application/json"];
NSDictionary *params = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                        @"Ans", @"name",
                        @"29", @"age",
                        nil];

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [httpClient requestWithMethod:@"POST" path:@"/" parameters:params];

AFJSONRequestOperation *operation = [AFJSONRequestOperation JSONRequestOperationWithRequest:request
    success:^(NSURLRequest *request, NSHTTPURLResponse *response, id JSON) {
        NSLog(@"Success");
        NSLog(@"%@",JSON);

    } failure:^(NSURLRequest *request, NSHTTPURLResponse *response, NSError *error, id JSON) {
        NSLog(@"Request Failed with Error: %@, %@", error, error.userInfo);
        NSLog(@"Failure");
}];

[operation start];
[operation waitUntilFinished];

Answer 1

By default, AFJSONRequestOperation accepts only "text/json", "application/json" or "text/javascript" content-types from server, but you are getting "text/html".

Fixing on server would be better, but you can also add "text/html" content type as acceptable in your app:

[AFJSONRequestOperation addAcceptableContentTypes:[NSSet setWithObject:@"text/html"]];

It worked for me, hope this helps!

Answer 2

Did you send this POST request by AFHTTPClient? If so, you need to set operation class for it:

AFHTTPClient * client = [[AFHTTPClient alloc] initWithBaseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://localhost:8080"]];
// ...
[client registerHTTPOperationClass:[AFJSONRequestOperation class]];
[client setDefaultHeader:@"Accept" value:@"application/json"];
// ...

// EDIT: Use AFHTTPClient's POST method
NSDictionary *params = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                         @"Ans", @"name",
                         @"29",  @"age", nil];

// POST, and for GET request, you need to use |-getPath:parameters:success:failure:|
[client postPath:@"/"
      parameters:params
         success:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {
           NSLog(@"RESPONSE: %@", responseObject);
           // ...
         }
         failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
           if (error)
             NSLog(@"%@", [error localizedDescription]);
           // ...
         }