Question

I’m trying to do an asynchronous request with ASIHTTPRequest, but have some problem getting notified when the request is done.

-(void)doDownload{
    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.someurl.com/?"];
    ASIFormDataRequest *request = [ASIFormDataRequest requestWithURL:url];
    [request setPostValue:@"someValue" forKey:@"someField"];
    [request setRequestMethod:@"POST"];

    [request setDelegate:self];
    [request setDidFinishSelector:@selector(requestFinished)];
    [request startAsynchronous];
}

- (void)requestFinished:(ASIHTTPRequest *)request
{
    // Use when fetching text data
    NSString *responseString = [request responseString];

}

requestFinished is never called. I get an exception in ASIHTTPRequest.m, -handleStreamCompleted:

if (fileError) {
    [self failWithError:fileError];
} else {
    [self requestFinished];   <----- this call fails
}

Any clues?

Answer 1

Are you sure that your class that implements - (void)requestFinished:(ASIHTTPRequest *)request is still there when the request finishes? It looks to me like the class gets deallocated too early. Note that the delegate property does not retain its content.

You could add a [self retain] to doDownload and a [self release] to - (void)requestFinished:(ASIHTTPRequest *)request, but make sure (!) that [self release] doesn’t get called too often. This is also a possible memory leak if a request would never finish. It would be best to retain your class somewhere else.

You might also try to debug with NSZombieEnabled set to YES to find the error.