AFNetworking Reachability Return FALSE value? - ios7

Question

I have internet connection and can browsing with browser.
Here is my codes to check Reachability with AFNetworking.
- (BOOL)connected {
return [AFNetworkReachabilityManager sharedManager].reachable;
}
And In ViewDidLoad
BOOL isOnline = [self connected];
if(isOnline == YES)
{
NSLog(#"YES");
}
else
{
NSLog(#"NO");
}
It's only showing NO and i don't know why is it?
Is there easiest way to check Reachability with AFNetworking?

Answer 1

I guess startMonitoring isn't called, try to do the below:
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
....
[[AFNetworkReachabilityManager sharedManager] startMonitoring];
}

Answer 2

If above answer is not solving your issue,
then your problem might be due to calling [AFNetworkReachabilityManager sharedManager].reachable while it is in the middle of 'startMonitoring' process where it would always return NO.
I had the same issue. I was calling web service while AFNetworkReachabilityManager had not finished monitoring process and was returning reachable = NO although I had working internet connection.
- (void) callWebService {
NSLog(#"Calling Webservice...");
if ([AFNetworkReachabilityManager sharedManager].reachable == NO) {
NSLog(#"%#", kErrorNoInternet);
return;
}
// Now, proceed to call webservice....
}
So, to solve this I did a trick. Called web service after some delay (in this example 0.05 sec).
Before:
[self callWebService];
Output:
After:
[self performSelector:#selector(callWebService) withObject:nil afterDelay:0.3]; // you can set delay value as per your choice
Output:
You can see from the output, the time difference is hardly 0.05 sec (exact value 0.048 sec).
Hope this will help.

Answer 3

instead of waiting you can use blocks just to make sure that your web service will be only called when network is available.
[[AFNetworkReachabilityManager sharedManager]startMonitoring];
[[AFNetworkReachabilityManager sharedManager]setReachabilityStatusChangeBlock:^(AFNetworkReachabilityStatus status)
{
if (status == AFNetworkReachabilityStatusReachableViaWWAN || status == AFNetworkReachabilityStatusReachableViaWiFi)
{
// connected. you can call your web service here
}else
{
// internet disconnected
}
}];