OSX - AFNetworking sending text even with JSON Serializer set - objective-c

Question

I have an issue with AFNetworking and AFJSONRequestSerializer. I try to access an API, and the request contains a text/plain header. Here's my code :
class BaseService {
var manager: AFHTTPRequestOperationManager!
init() {
manager = AFHTTPRequestOperationManager()
manager.responseSerializer = AFJSONResponseSerializer()
manager.requestSerializer = AFJSONRequestSerializer(writingOptions: NSJSONWritingOptions.allZeros)
}
}
class UserService: BaseService {
func startNewEntry(name: String) {
let params = [
"time_entry": [
"description": name,
"created_with": "fooBar"
]
]
manager.POST(
"endpoint",
parameters: params,
success: { (operation, response) -> Void in
let json = JSON(response)
println("OK")
println(json)
Context.shared.entries.getFromJSON(json)
}) { (operation, error) -> Void in
println("-- ERROR --")
println(operation)
println(error)
}
}
Do you know this issue ?

Answer 1

No, this code will create a request with a content type of application/json. But I wonder if you perhaps mislead by an error message that said:
Request failed: unacceptable content-type: text/html
If you got that, that's not telling you that that the request had an unacceptable content type, but rather that the request failed because the response was text/html. And this is a very common issue: If server code that is attempting to create a JSON response fails for some reason, sometimes the error message isn't JSON, but rather it's HTML.
I would suggest adding the following inside the failure block of your POST method in order to see what this text/html response was:
if operation.responseData != nil {
println(NSString(data: operation.responseData, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding))
}
This way, if you get a text error message from the server (e.g. the request was malformed or what have you), you'll be able to read the HTML response you got back.