If using AFNetworking 2.0, you can use the POST
method, which simplifies this a bit:
AFHTTPRequestOperationManager *manager = [AFHTTPRequestOperationManager manager];
manager.requestSerializer = [AFJSONRequestSerializer serializer];
NSDictionary *parameters = @{@"username":username, @"password":password};
[manager POST:@"https://mycompany.atlassian.net/rest/auth/latest/session/" parameters:parameters success:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {
NSLog(@"JSON: %@", responseObject);
} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
}];
This does the creation of the request, setting its Content-Type
according to the requestSerializer
setting, and encodes the JSON for you. One of the advantages of AFNetworking is that you can get out of the weeds of constructing and configuring NSURLRequest
objects manually.
By the way, the "Request failed: unacceptable content-type: text/html" error means that regardless of what you were expecting to receive (e.g. JSON), you received HTML response. This is very common: Many server errors (e.g. the server informing you that the request was malformed, etc.) generate HTML error messages. If you want to see that HTML, in your failure
block, simply log the operation.responseString
.