Cancel a request Alamofire

Question

I am sending a request which is triggered based on timer. But if I press the back button the request still seems to be active and the response in turns crashes the app. Kindly suggest a way to cancel the request.

Using Xcode 8.2.1 Swift 3

Here is the sample request :

Alamofire.request(path!, method: .post, parameters: parameters, encoding: JSONEncoding.default, headers: createHeader()).responseJSON {
    response in
    switch response.result {
    case .success(let data):
        success(data as AnyObject?)
    case .failure(let error) :
        failure(error as NSError)
    }
}

Even tried invalidating the timer on viewDidDisappear but to no help.

Thanks !!

Answer 1

Alamofire 4 / Swift 3 / Xcode 8

You can cancel a single request as below:

1 - First get the request:

let request = Alamofire.SessionManager.default.request(path!, method: .post, parameters: parameters, encoding: JSONEncoding.default, headers: createHeader()).responseJSON { response in
    switch response.result {
    case .success(let data):
        success(data as AnyObject?)
    case .failure(let error) :
        failure(error as NSError)
    }
}

2 - Then, in your viewDidDisappear, just call:

request.cancel()

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You can cancel all requests as below:

Alamofire.SessionManager.default.session.getTasksWithCompletionHandler { (sessionDataTask, uploadData, downloadData) in
    sessionDataTask.forEach { $0.cancel() }
    uploadData.forEach { $0.cancel() }
    downloadData.forEach { $0.cancel() }
}