Setting client-side timeout per request with Alamofire [swift]?

Question

I'm trying to set a client-side timeout per request for Alamofire for Swift. The lead architect told me to set this on NSURLRequest, but I'm completely confused on how to actually do that in practice.

Can someone who has done this give an example? Thanks!

Inkberry

Answer 1

I think this code may works.

var alamofireManager : Alamofire.Manager?

func some(){
  let configuration = NSURLSessionConfiguration.defaultSessionConfiguration()
  configuration.timeoutIntervalForResource = 2 // seconds

  self.alamofireManager = Alamofire.Manager(configuration: configuration)
  self.alamofireManager!.request(.GET, "http://example.com/")
    .response { (request, response, data, error) in

    }
}

Crum

Why configuration.timeoutIntervalForResource and not configuration.timeoutIntervalForRequest ? – Inkberry

Setting timeoutIntervalForRequest solved my timeout problem. Prior to that, long requests to an API were timing out. – Cyclosis

Answer 2

This is how you can use a per-request timeout using URLRequest:

Alamofire.request(URLRequest(url: ..., cachePolicy: ..., timeoutInterval: 10))
    .response(...)

Mohur

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