AFNetworking with CLLocation gives error

Question

I am working with AFNetworking 3.0 and CLLocation for weather app.

When I click on button, API must have to update with location. But It gives me error after updating location.

I am using world weather api for getting weather details.

The error is,

Error Domain=com.alamofire.error.serialization.response Code=-1011 "Request failed: forbidden (403)" UserInfo={com.alamofire.serialization.response.error.response= { URL: http://api.worldweatheronline.com/free/v1/weather.ashx?format=json&key=1b8c4f157aec499cba0120254161609&num_of_days=5&q=19.017615%2C72.856164 } { status code: 403, headers { "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" = "*"; Age = 0; "Cache-Control" = "public, max-age=120"; Connection = "keep-alive"; "Content-Encoding" = gzip; "Content-Length" = 96; "Content-Type" = "application/json; charset=utf-8"; Date = "Mon, 19 Sep 2016 05:53:12 GMT"; Expires = "Mon, 19 Sep 2016 05:55:13 GMT"; Vary = "Accept-Encoding"; Via = WebCelerate; "X-Cache" = MISS; "X-Powered-By" = "ASP.NET"; "X-Webcelerate" = "WebCelerate - www.ukfast.co.uk/web-acceleration.html"; "X-node" = "zfdl_api_01"; "access-control-allow-headers" = "content-type"; } }, NSErrorFailingURLKey=http://api.worldweatheronline.com/free/v1/weather.ashx?format=json&key=1b8c4f157aec499cba0120254161609&num_of_days=5&q=19.017615%2C72.856164, com.alamofire.serialization.response.error.data=<7b202264 61746122 3a207b20 22657272 6f72223a 205b207b 226d7367 223a2022 41504920 6b657920 646f6573 206e6f74 20686176 65206163 63657373 20746f20 74686520 7265736f 75726365 2e22207d 205d207d 7d>, NSLocalizedDescription=Request failed: forbidden (403)}

I have refer all the articles on net but cannot find the proper answer for this.

I have some methods for perform this functionality,

- (void)locationManager:(CLLocationManager *)manager didUpdateLocations:(NSArray *)locations
{NSLog(@"location updated");
    // Last object contains the most recent location
    CLLocation *newLocation = [locations lastObject];

    // If the location is more than 5 minutes old, ignore it
    if([newLocation.timestamp timeIntervalSinceNow] > 300)
        return;

    [self.locationManager stopUpdatingLocation];

    WeatherHTTPClient *client = [WeatherHTTPClient sharedWeatherHTTPClient];
    client.delegate = self;
    [client updateWeatherAtLocation:newLocation forNumberOfDays:5];
}

- (void)weatherHTTPClient:(WeatherHTTPClient *)client didUpdateWithWeather:(id)weather
{
    self.weather = weather;
    self.title = @"API Updated";
    [self.tableView reloadData];
    NSLog(@"API updated");
}

- (void)weatherHTTPClient:(WeatherHTTPClient *)client didFailWithError:(NSError *)error
{
    UIAlertView *alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Error Retrieving Weather"
                                                        message:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",error]
                                                       delegate:nil
                                              cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil];
    [alertView show];
    NSLog(@"error - %@", error);
}

This methods call when I tapped button named API. And updating locations and give the data in tableview. But its not working.

Button method is :

- (IBAction)apiTapped:(id)sender
{
    self.locationManager = [[CLLocationManager alloc] init];
    self.locationManager.delegate=self;
    self.locationManager.desiredAccuracy=kCLLocationAccuracyBest;
    self.locationManager.distanceFilter=kCLDistanceFilterNone;
    [self.locationManager requestWhenInUseAuthorization];
    [self.locationManager startMonitoringSignificantLocationChanges];
    [self.locationManager startUpdatingLocation];
    NSLog(@"apiTapped");
}

I am refering this tutorial for AFNetworking demo,

https://www.raywenderlich.com/59255/afnetworking-2-0-tutorial

As per that tutorial everything is working fine for them in AFNetworking 2.0 but not form me.

So what is the issue in my code?

Answer 1

I have solved the problem.

The problem is with access. I have account in world weather with free user. and the api url is ,

http://api.worldweatheronline.com/free/v1/

So with free acount they not providing some access to their api.

I changed the url to,

http://api.worldweatheronline.com/premium/v1/

So now they are allowing to access the api and the error is now gone.