AFNetworking HTTP delete use body instead of URL

Question

I'm trying to send a HTTP DELETE request to a RESTful Django web service from my iOS app. I use AFNetworking 2.0 (2.4).

After analysing the AFHTTPREquestOperation in the success block of my API call, i found that the body of the request is nil. The parameters URL encoded and sent in the URL.

<AFHTTPRequestOperation: 0x10c587940, 
state: isFinished, 
cancelled: NO 
request: <NSMutableURLRequest: 0x10c521ab0> { 
URL: https://anURL.com/connections?data%5Bconnections%5D%5B%5D%5Bid%5D=106 }, 
response: <NSHTTPURLResponse: 0x10c5c7590> { 
URL: anURL.com/
connections?data%5Bconnections%5D%5B%5D%5Bid%5D=106 
} 
{ status code: 200, headers {
    Connection = "Keep-Alive";
    "Content-Type" = "application/json";
    Date = "Tue, 05 Aug 2014 14:07:53 GMT";
    "Keep-Alive" = "timeout=5, max=100";
    Server = "Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)";
    "Transfer-Encoding" = Identity;
} }>

Now I wonder if it is possible to send the parameters in the body of the request, as done with HTTP POST instead of sending them in the URL. Is that possible?

How to do it using AFNetworking?

How i send atm:

AFHTTPRequestOperationManager *manager = [AFHTTPRequestOperationManager manager];
manager.requestSerializer = [AFJSONRequestSerializer serializer];

[manager DELETE:host_url parameters:params success:success failure:failure];

The body i want to send(its whats in the "params" parameter above):

{
    "data": {
        "connections": [
            {
                "id": 92
            },
            {
                "id": 91
            }
        ]
    }
}

Looks like it: stackoverflow.com/questions/299628/…

Droppy
– Droppy

2014-08-05 14:16:29 +00:00
Commented Aug 5, 2014 at 14:16 — Droppy
– Droppy, Commented Aug 5, 2014 at 14:16
did u handle the DELETE request. i am stuck in same trouble

Nischal Hada
– Nischal Hada

2016-03-25 15:21:44 +00:00
Commented Mar 25, 2016 at 15:21 — Nischal Hada
– Nischal Hada, Commented Mar 25, 2016 at 15:21

f3n1kc · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-10 11:51:04Z

62

Had same problem. As question is still open, will post answer here. All you need to do, is change HTTP methods, that encode parameters as a query string (by default GET, HEAD, and DELETE). Request serializer has HTTPMethodsEncodingParametersInURI property for that. Just set it to GET, HEAD and you are done:

serializer.HTTPMethodsEncodingParametersInURI = [NSSet setWithObjects:@"GET", @"HEAD", nil];

answered Mar 10, 2015 at 11:51

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Nischal Hada Over a year ago

how is it possible to achieve above . i am stuck in same trouble

Norak · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-01 09:55:27Z

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Answer provided by @f3n1kc is corrected, but just in case you looking for Swift Version:

let manager = AFHTTPSessionManager()
manager.requestSerializer = AFHTTPRequestSerializer()
manager.requestSerializer.HTTPMethodsEncodingParametersInURI = ["GET", "HEAD"]

answered Sep 1, 2017 at 9:55

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