AFNetworking 2.0 and HTTP Basic Authentication

Can't find AFHTTPClient on AFNetworking 2.0, to use:

AFHTTPClient *client = [AFHTTPClient clientWithBaseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://examplewebsite.com]];

[client setAuthorizationHeaderWithUsername:@"username" password:@"password"];

How it needs to be manage on AFNetworking 2.0?

Solution 1:

AFNetworking 2.0 new architecture use serializers for creating requests and parsing responses. In order to set the authorization header, you should first initialize a request operation manager that replaces the AFHTTPClient, create a serializer and then call the dedicated method to set the header.

For example you code would become:

AFHTTPRequestOperationManager *manager = [[AFHTTPRequestOperationManager alloc] initWithBaseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://examplewebsite.com"]];
manager.requestSerializer = [AFHTTPRequestSerializer serializer];
[manager.requestSerializer setAuthorizationHeaderFieldWithUsername:@"userName" password:@"password"];

You should read the documentation and the migration guide to understand the new concepts that come with the version 2.0 of AFNetworking.

Solution 2:

Here is an example of performing basic HTTP authentication with AFNetworking 2.0 using NSURLCredential. The advantage of this approach over using the AFHTTPRequestSerializer setAuthorizationHeaderFieldWithUsername:password: method is that you can automatically store the username and password in the keychain by changing the persistence: parameter of NSURLCredential. (See this answer.)

AFHTTPRequestOperationManager *manager = [AFHTTPRequestOperationManager manager];

NSURLCredential *credential = [NSURLCredential credentialWithUser:@"user" password:@"passwd" persistence:NSURLCredentialPersistenceNone];

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [manager.requestSerializer requestWithMethod:@"GET" URLString:@"https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/passwd" parameters:nil];

AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation = [[AFHTTPRequestOperation alloc] initWithRequest:request];
[operation setCredential:credential];
[operation setResponseSerializer:[AFJSONResponseSerializer alloc]];
[operation setCompletionBlockWithSuccess:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {
    NSLog(@"Success: %@", responseObject);
} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
    NSLog(@"Failure: %@", error);
}];
[manager.operationQueue addOperation:operation];