DocuSign error downloading document - iphone

Question

I'm trying to implement this example link of a DocuSign service that download an envelope document, but when the execution arrive to this line in step 3:
NSMutableString *jsonResponse = [[NSMutableString alloc] initWithData:oResponseData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
jsonResponse is nil and when I open the document, it has a lot of strange characters and I can't read it.
My code for downloadind is the following:
NSString *url = #"https://demo.docusign.net/restapi/v2/accounts/373577/envelopes/08016140-e4dc-4697-8146-f8ce801abf92/documents/1";
NSMutableURLRequest *documentsRequest = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:url]];
[documentsRequest setHTTPMethod:#"GET"];
[documentsRequest setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:url]];
[documentsRequest setValue:#"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Type"];
[documentsRequest setValue:[self jsonStringFromObject:authenticationHeader] forHTTPHeaderField:#"X-DocuSign-Authentication"];
NSError *error1 = [[NSError alloc] init];
NSHTTPURLResponse *responseCode = nil;
NSData *oResponseData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:documentsRequest returningResponse:&responseCode error:&error1];
NSMutableString *jsonResponse = [[NSMutableString alloc] initWithData:oResponseData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
if([responseCode statusCode] != 200){
NSLog(#"Error sending %# request to %#\nHTTP status code = %i", [documentsRequest HTTPMethod], url, [responseCode statusCode]);
NSLog( #"Response = %#", jsonResponse );
return;
}
// download the document to the same directory as this app
NSString *appDirectory = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath] stringByDeletingLastPathComponent];
NSMutableString *filePath = [NSMutableString stringWithFormat:#"%#/%#", appDirectory, #"eee"];
[oResponseData writeToFile:filePath atomically:YES];
NSLog(#"Envelope document - %# - has been downloaded to %#\n", #"eee", filePath);

Answer 1

If no data is coming back from
NSMutableString *jsonResponse = [[NSMutableString alloc] initWithData:oResponseData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
then that means oResponseData is most likely nil which means the URL is not being constructed correctly for each envelope document. Are you doing step 2 in the sample that you linked to, where it first retrieves the envelopeDocuments information about the envelope, then it dynamically builds each unique document uri in preparation of downloading each one.
Instead of hardcoding your URL you should dynamically retrieve the envelopeDocuments data, then build each document uri dynamically then your response data will not be nil. Here's the full working sample:
- (void)getDocumentInfoAndDownloadDocuments
{
// Enter your info:
NSString *email = #"<#email#>";
NSString *password = #"<#password#>";
NSString *integratorKey = #"<#integratorKey#>";
// need to copy a valid envelopeId from your account
NSString *envelopeId = #"<#envelopeId#>";
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// STEP 1 - Login (retrieves accountId and baseUrl)
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
NSString *loginURL = #"https://demo.docusign.net/restapi/v2/login_information";
NSMutableURLRequest *loginRequest = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init];
[loginRequest setHTTPMethod:#"GET"];
[loginRequest setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:loginURL]];
// set JSON formatted X-DocuSign-Authentication header (XML also accepted)
NSDictionary *authenticationHeader = #{#"Username": email, #"Password" : password, #"IntegratorKey" : integratorKey};
// jsonStringFromObject() function defined further below...
[loginRequest setValue:[self jsonStringFromObject:authenticationHeader] forHTTPHeaderField:#"X-DocuSign-Authentication"];
// also set the Content-Type header (other accepted type is application/xml)
[loginRequest setValue:#"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Type"];
[NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest:loginRequest queue:[NSOperationQueue mainQueue] completionHandler:^(NSURLResponse *loginResponse, NSData *loginData, NSError *loginError) {
if (loginError) { // succesful GET returns status 200
NSLog(#"Error sending request %#. Got Response %# Error is: %#", loginRequest, loginResponse, loginError);
return;
}
// we use NSJSONSerialization to parse the JSON formatted response
NSError *jsonError = nil;
NSDictionary *responseDictionary = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:loginData options:kNilOptions error:&jsonError];
NSArray *loginArray = responseDictionary[#"loginAccounts"];
// parse the accountId and baseUrl from the response (other data included)
NSString *accountId = loginArray[0][#"accountId"];
NSString *baseUrl = loginArray[0][#"baseUrl"];
//--- display results
NSLog(#"\naccountId = %#\nbaseUrl = %#\n", accountId, baseUrl);
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// STEP 2 - Get Document Info for specified envelope
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// append /envelopes/{envelopeId}/documents URI to baseUrl and use as endpoint for next request
NSString *documentsURL = [NSMutableString stringWithFormat:#"%#/envelopes/%#/documents", baseUrl, envelopeId];
NSMutableURLRequest *documentsRequest = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:documentsURL]];
[documentsRequest setHTTPMethod:#"GET"];
[documentsRequest setValue:#"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Type"];
[documentsRequest setValue:[self jsonStringFromObject:authenticationHeader] forHTTPHeaderField:#"X-DocuSign-Authentication"];
[NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest:documentsRequest queue:[NSOperationQueue mainQueue] completionHandler:^(NSURLResponse *documentsResponse, NSData *documentsData, NSError *documentsError) {
NSError *documentsJSONError = nil;
NSDictionary *jsonResponse = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:documentsData options:kNilOptions error:&documentsJSONError];
if (documentsError){
NSLog(#"Error sending request: %#. Got response: %#", documentsRequest, documentsResponse);
NSLog( #"Response = %#", documentsResponse );
return;
}
NSLog( #"Documents info for envelope is:\n%#", jsonResponse);
NSError *jsonError = nil;
NSDictionary *responseDictionary = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:documentsData options:kNilOptions error:&jsonError];
// grab documents info for the next step...
NSArray *documentsArray = responseDictionary[#"envelopeDocuments"];
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// STEP 3 - Download each envelope document
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
NSMutableString *docUri;
NSMutableString *docName;
NSMutableString *docURL;
// loop through each document uri and download each doc (including the envelope's certificate)
for (int i = 0; i < [documentsArray count]; i++)
{
docUri = [documentsArray[i] objectForKey:#"uri"];
docName = [documentsArray[i] objectForKey:#"name"];
docURL = [NSMutableString stringWithFormat: #"%#/%#", baseUrl, docUri];
[documentsRequest setHTTPMethod:#"GET"];
[documentsRequest setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:docURL]];
[documentsRequest setValue:#"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Type"];
[documentsRequest setValue:[self jsonStringFromObject:authenticationHeader] forHTTPHeaderField:#"X-DocuSign-Authentication"];
NSError *error = [[NSError alloc] init];
NSHTTPURLResponse *responseCode = nil;
NSData *oResponseData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:documentsRequest returningResponse:&responseCode error:&error];
NSMutableString *jsonResponse = [[NSMutableString alloc] initWithData:oResponseData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
if([responseCode statusCode] != 200){
NSLog(#"Error sending %# request to %#\nHTTP status code = %i", [documentsRequest HTTPMethod], docURL, [responseCode statusCode]);
NSLog( #"Response = %#", jsonResponse );
return;
}
// download the document to the same directory as this app
NSString *appDirectory = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath] stringByDeletingLastPathComponent];
NSMutableString *filePath = [NSMutableString stringWithFormat:#"%#/%#", appDirectory, docName];
[oResponseData writeToFile:filePath atomically:YES];
NSLog(#"Envelope document - %# - has been downloaded to %#\n", docName, filePath);
} // end for
}];
}];
}
- (NSString *)jsonStringFromObject:(id)object {
NSString *string = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:[NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:object options:0 error:nil] encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
return string;
}