calculating total progress of downloading multiple file with AFNetworking

Question

I want to download multiple file and then display a total progress to the user.

but the problem is here I dont know how should I calculate total progress .

here is what I do: first I get to totalBytes Expected to receive from all of the files:

for (NSURL candidateUrl in UrlsList)
{
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:candidateURL];
                        //setting HTTPMethod of request from GET to HEAD to download header files of requests, so we can get file size before downloaing file
                        [request setHTTPMethod:@"HEAD"];

                        getTotalImagesBytesOperation = [[AFHTTPRequestOperation alloc] initWithRequest:request];
                        [getTotalImagesBytesOperation setCompletionBlockWithSuccess:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject)
                         {
                             //setting totalImagesBytesExpectedToRead of all images. we use it to know how many bytes we should download for all the images
                              totalImagesBytesExpectedToRead += [operation.response expectedContentLength];


                         } failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
                             NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
                         }];

                        [operationQueue addOperation:getTotalImagesBytesOperation];
}

after estimating total files size:

        //downloading images
    for (NSURL *imageUrl in imagesURLList) {
        NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:imageUrl];
        AFImageRequestOperation *downloadImageOperation = [AFImageRequestOperation imageRequestOperationWithRequest:request
                                                                                  imageProcessingBlock:nil

                                                                                               success: ^(NSURLRequest *request, NSHTTPURLResponse *response, UIImage *image) {                                                                                      
NSLog(@"success")
}
failure: ^(NSURLRequest *request, NSHTTPURLResponse *response, NSError *error) {
                                                                                                       NSLog(@"%@", [error localizedDescription]);
                                                                                                   }];

        [operationQueue addOperation:downloadImageOperation];

        [downloadImageOperation setDownloadProgressBlock:^(NSUInteger bytesRead, long long totalBytesRead, long long totalBytesExpectedToRead)
        {

          **HOW TO CALCULATE TOTAL PROGRESS**
}

I don't know how to calculate total size!! the values we have: totalBytesOfAllTheFiles, totalBytesRead and totalBytesExpectedToRead for the current file which above method gives you, indexOfCurrentFile and countOfFiles.

be cautious setDownloadProgressBlock called hundreds a time.

does anyone have any idea? (sorry for bad formatting of code!)

Answer 1

Here is how I achieved that: first create an NSOperationQueue:

// Add the operation to a queue
// It will start once added
//calculating images byte size
NSOperationQueue *operationQueue = [[NSOperationQueue alloc] init];
[operationQueue setMaxConcurrentOperationCount:1];
foreach (NSURL *candidateURL in urlList )
{
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:candidateURL];
                    //setting HTTPMethod of request from GET to HEAD to download header files of requests, so we can get file size before downloaing file
                    [request setHTTPMethod:@"HEAD"];

                    AFHTTPRequestOperation *getTotalImagesBytesOperation = [[AFHTTPRequestOperation alloc] initWithRequest:request];
                    [getTotalImagesBytesOperation setCompletionBlockWithSuccess:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject)
                     {
                         //setting totalImagesBytesExpectedToRead of all images. we use it to know how many bytes we should download for all the images
                         totalImagesBytesExpectedToRead += [operation.response expectedContentLength];


                     } failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
                         NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
                     }];

                    [operationQueue addOperation:getTotalImagesBytesOperation];
}

 //downloading images which should be downloaded
for (NSURL *imageUrl in imagesShouldBeDownlaoded) {
    NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:imageUrl];

    AFHTTPRequestOperation *downloadFileOperation = [[AFHTTPRequestOperation alloc] initWithRequest:request];
    //we must provide file path with file name and its extension
    NSString *fileName = [self getImageName:[imageUrl absoluteString]];
    downloadFileOperation.outputStream = [NSOutputStream outputStreamToFileAtPath:[[ImageManager applicationDocumentsDirectory] stringByAppendingPathComponent:fileName] append:NO];

    [downloadFileOperation setCompletionBlockWithSuccess:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation , id response)
     {
         NSLog(@"file saved");

     }failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error)
     {
         completionBlock(NO, error);
         NSLog(@"%@", [error localizedDescription]);
     }];

    [operationQueue addOperation:downloadFileOperation];

    [downloadFileOperation setDownloadProgressBlock:^(NSUInteger bytesRead, long long totalBytesRead, long long totalBytesExpectedToRead)
     {
         totalBytesDownloaded += bytesRead;

         //total progress from 0.0 to 1.0
         progress = ((float)totalBytesDownloaded/(float)totalImagesBytesExpectedToRead);
         if(progress == 1)
         {
             completionBlock(YES, nil);
         }
         progressCallback(progress);
    }];

operationQueue works as a FIFO list, first calculate images byte size, then starts to download all images