OAuth 1.0 using Consumer Key and Consumer Secret in iOS - iphone

I am making an application that requires oAuth 1.0 authentication. I have access to consumer key and consumer secret given by the client. I have tried to do it with AFNetworking but it has not come up well.
Could someone suggest me a good tutorial for the same. Actually I am getting an error for unauthenticated user.

I found the answer to this question. First of all I used AFNetworking and AFOauth1Client for the same.
AFOAuth1Client * client = [[AFOAuth1Client alloc] initWithBaseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:<your URL>] key:<Your Consumer Key> secret:<Your Consumer Secret>];
[client setOauthAccessMethod:#"POST"];
[client setSignatureMethod:AFHMACSHA1SignatureMethod];
[client setDefaultHeader:#"Content-Type" value:#"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"];
Next I created a request for this client and set the Body of the request
NSMutableURLRequest * request =[client requestWithMethod:#"POST" path:<URL Path> parameters:nil];
//here path is actually the name of the method
[request setHTTPBody:[<Your String Data> dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
Then I made use of AFHttpRequestOperation with the request made in the upper step
AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation = [[AFHTTPRequestOperation alloc] initWithRequest:request];
[client registerHTTPOperationClass:[AFHTTPRequestOperation class]];
[operation setCompletionBlockWithSuccess:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {
// Success Print the response body in text
NSLog(#"Response: %#", [[NSString alloc] initWithData:responseObject encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]);
//parsing the xml Response
NSXMLParser * parser= [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:responseObject];
[parser setDelegate:self];
[parser parse];
} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
//Something Went wrong..
NSLog(#"Error: %#", error);
}];
[operation start];

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How to avoid delay of webservice(ASIHTTPRequest) response in iPhone?

In my iPhone app handling web service for storing and retrieving data.Now i am using the following code for web service handling.
ASIFormDataRequest *request = [ASIFormDataRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request setPostValue:#"1" forKey:#"id"];
[request setTag:100];
[request setDelegate:self];
[request startAsynchronous];
By this code i got response in 'requestFinished' method.My problem is web service response is very delay(depends upon internet speed).How to make response from web service very fast?Please help me.
I think you want to send json objects by post method..delay is depend on your server(how fast it handle request and response back) but i suggest you to use progress bar and blocks to handle network request..
loadingHUD = [MBProgressHUD showHUDAddedTo:self.view animated:YES];
loadingHUD.labelText = NSLocalizedString(#"Downloading", nil);
loadingHUD.mode=MBProgressHUDModeAnnularDeterminate;
NSString *documentDirectory = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask,YES) lastObject];
// Add your filename to the directory to create your saved file location
NSString* destPath = [documentDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:[fileName stringByAppendingString:#".mov"]];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:mainURL];
AFHTTPClient *httpClient = [[AFHTTPClient alloc] initWithBaseURL:url];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [httpClient requestWithMethod:#"POST" path:postURL parameters:postRequest];
NSLog(#"postRequest: %#", postRequest);
AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation = [[AFHTTPRequestOperation alloc] initWithRequest:request];
operation.outputStream = [NSOutputStream outputStreamToFileAtPath:destPath append:NO];
[operation setCompletionBlockWithSuccess:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject)
{
NSLog(#"Successfully downloaded file to %#",[[NSString alloc] initWithData:operation.responseData encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]);
// Give alert that downloading successful.
NSLog(#"Successfully downloaded file to %#", destPath);
NSLog(#"response: %#", operation.responseString); // Give alert that downloading successful.
// [self.target parserDidDownloadItem:destPath];
loadingHUD.detailsLabelText = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%# %i%%",#"Downloading",100];
[loadingHUD hide:TRUE];
[DBHelper savePurchaseId:fileName];
[self movieReceived];
}
failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error)
{
// Give alert that downloading failed
NSLog(#"Error: %#", error);
// [self.target parserDidFailToDownloadItem:error];
[loadingHUD hide:TRUE];
}];
[operation setDownloadProgressBlock:^(NSUInteger bytesWritten, long long totalBytesWritten, long long totalBytesExpectedToWrite)
{
// Progress
progress = ((float)totalBytesWritten) / fileSize;
loadingHUD.progress = progress;
}];
[operation start];
}
We cant control the internet speed due to the different network provider or environment when the client is using your app.
But you can put your web-services to run in background without effecting your main function.
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0), ^{
//code for webservices calling
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
//functions after your webservices done, for example reload the table or hide the loading bar.
});
});

Iphone - AFNetworking Login Form always returns 404

I'm having troubles with AFNetworking, decided to use it since ASIHTTP is long deprecated, and I'm trying to use it in a login form request, but the response code is always -1011.
here is my code :
NSString *urltest = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#%#/", SERVER_ADDRESS, API_ADDRESS];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urltest];
NSLog(#"url address : %#",url);
AFHTTPClient *httpClient = [[AFHTTPClient alloc] initWithBaseURL:url];
httpClient.allowsInvalidSSLCertificate = TRUE;
NSDictionary *params = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
_email.text, #"email",
_password.text, #"password",
nil];
// Here I try doing my login request using AFHTTPRequestOperation
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [httpClient requestWithMethod:#"POST" path:#"/auth/login" parameters:params];
[request setValue:#"application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF8" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Type"];
//Notice the different method here!
AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation = [httpClient HTTPRequestOperationWithRequest:request
success:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {
NSLog(#"Response: %#", responseObject);
}
failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error){
NSLog(#"Error: %#", error);
}];
//Enqueue it instead of just starting it.
[httpClient enqueueHTTPRequestOperation:operation];
// Here I try doing my login request using the postPath:parameters: method
[httpClient postPath:#"/auth/login" parameters:params success:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {
[self performSegueWithIdentifier:#"AuthOK" sender:self];
NSString *responseStr = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:responseObject encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(#"Request Successful, response '%#'", responseStr);
} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
NSLog(#"Request failed with code %d for %# for request : %#",error.code , error.localizedDescription,httpClient.baseURL);
}];
And none of these two methods are working, I'm guessing I'm doing something wrong somewhere
btw, the server I login to, has an unsigned ssl certificate, but I handled the error by adding
#define _AFNETWORKING_ALLOW_INVALID_SSL_CERTIFICATES_ 1
in AFURLConnectionOperation.h
I use Charles to monitor http requests, and it gives me a "SSLHandshake: Remote host closed connection during handshake"
My app runs with iOS 5.
Anyone has insights on this?
Leo
Well my solution was to initialize my request with an empty url and then in the postPath, put the whole address.
You need to install Charles' SSL Certificate on your device to decrypt SSL traffic
http://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/faqs/ssl-connections-from-within-iphone-applications/

getting access token with OAuth

I am trying to get around this OAuth issue of getting an access token from Instapaper, it says in their site that they don't there is no request-token/authorize workflow and they said this is pretty similar to what twitter does, so here's what I did:
- (void)getXAuthAccessToken
{
OAConsumer *consumer = [[[OAConsumer alloc] initWithKey:CONSUMER_KEY secret:CONSUMER_SECRET] autorelease];
OAMutableURLRequest *request = [[OAMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:INSTAPAPER_CLIENT_OAUTH_URL]
consumer:consumer
token:nil // xAuth needs no request token?
realm:nil // our service provider doesn't specify a realm
signatureProvider:nil]; // use the default method, HMAC-SHA1
[request setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
[request setParameters:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:
[OARequestParameter requestParameterWithName:#"x_auth_mode" value:#"client_auth"],
[OARequestParameter requestParameterWithName:#"x_auth_username" value:self.username],
[OARequestParameter requestParameterWithName:#"x_auth_password" value:self.password],
nil]];
[request prepare];
AFHTTPRequestOperation *requestOAuth = [[AFHTTPRequestOperation alloc] initWithRequest:request];
[requestOAuth setCompletionBlockWithSuccess:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject){
NSLog(#"RESPONSE OBJECT IS %#", responseObject);
}failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error){
NSLog(#"ERROR IS %#", error);
}];
[requestOAuth start];
}
Any idea why this is constantly giving me a 401?
So turns out I'd have to call prepare on this request first. But then I can't read the responseData back as what I see it now just binaries.. how can I convert this to a human readable?
EDIT:
Set parameter puts the params in the header:
- (void)setParameters:(NSArray *)parameters
{
NSMutableString *encodedParameterPairs = [NSMutableString stringWithCapacity:256];
int position = 1;
for (OARequestParameter *requestParameter in parameters)
{
[encodedParameterPairs appendString:[requestParameter URLEncodedNameValuePair]];
if (position < [parameters count])
[encodedParameterPairs appendString:#"&"];
position++;
}
if ([[self HTTPMethod] isEqualToString:#"GET"] || [[self HTTPMethod] isEqualToString:#"DELETE"])
[self setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#?%#", [[self URL] URLStringWithoutQuery], encodedParameterPairs]]];
else
{
// POST, PUT
NSData *postData = [encodedParameterPairs dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];
[self setHTTPBody:postData];
[self setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d", [postData length]] forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Length"];
[self setValue:#"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Type"];
}
}
After reading the Instapaper API docs, it looks like you need to provide a token in the request.
the page is here: http://www.instapaper.com/main/request_oauth_consumer_token

AFNetworking POST to REST webservice

Brief backstory, our previous developer used ASIHTTPRequest to make POST requests and retrieve data from our webservice. For reasons unknown this portion of our app stopped working. Seemed like good enough time to future proof and go with AFNetworking. REST webservice runs on the CakePHP framework.
In short I am not receiving the request response string using AFNetworking.
I know the webservice works because I am able to successfully post data and receive the proper response using curl:
curl -d "data[Model][field0]=field0value&data[Model][field1]=field1value" https://example.com/api/class/function.plist
Per the previous developer's instructions I came up with the following.
#import "AFHTTPRequestOperation.h"
…
- (IBAction)loginButtonPressed {
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:#"https://example.com/api/class/function.plist"];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
[request setValue:#"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Type"];
[request setValue:[usernameTextField text] forHTTPHeaderField:#"data[User][email]"];
[request setValue:[passwordTextField text] forHTTPHeaderField:#"data[User][password]"];
AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation = [[[AFHTTPRequestOperation alloc] initWithRequest:request] autorelease];
[operation setCompletionBlockWithSuccess:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {
NSLog(#"operation hasAcceptableStatusCode: %d", [operation.response statusCode]);
NSLog(#"response string: %# ", operation.responseString);
} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
NSLog(#"error: %#", operation.responseString);
}];
[operation start];
}
output:
operation hasAcceptableStatusCode: 200
response string: a blank plist file
attempted solution 1:
AFNetworking Post Request
the proposed solution uses a function of AFHTTPRequestOperation called operationWithRequest. However, when I attempt to use said solution I get a warning "Class method '+operationWithRequest:completion:' not found (return type defaults to 'id'"
attempted solution 2: NSURLConnection. output: I'm able to print the success log messaged but not the response string.
*update - returns blank plist.
NSMutableURLRequest *req = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
NSString *httpBodyData = #"data[User][email]=username#example.com&data[User][password]=awesomepassword";
[httpBodyData dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
[req setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
[req setHTTPBody:[NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:httpBodyData]];
NSHTTPURLResponse __autoreleasing *response;
NSError __autoreleasing *error;
[NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:req returningResponse:&response error:&error];
// *update - returns blank plist
NSData *responseData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:req returningResponse:nil error:nil];
NSString *str = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:responseData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(#"responseData %#",str);
if (error == nil && response.statusCode == 200) {
// Process response
NSLog(#"success");//returns success code of 200 but blank
NSLog(#"resp %#", response );
} else {
// Process error
NSLog(#"error");
}
These are the essential (stripping out conditions I've made for my own use) lines that ended up satisfying my request to the web service. Thanks for the suggestions #8vius and #mattt !
- (IBAction)loginButtonPressed {
NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL URLWithString:#"https://www.example.com/api/class"];
//build normal NSMutableURLRequest objects
//make sure to setHTTPMethod to "POST".
//from https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking
AFHTTPClient *httpClient = [[AFHTTPClient alloc] initWithBaseURL:baseURL];
[httpClient defaultValueForHeader:#"Accept"];
NSDictionary *params = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
[usernameTextField text], kUsernameField,
[passwordTextField text], kPasswordField,
nil];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [httpClient requestWithMethod:#"POST"
path:#"https://www.example.com/api/class/function" parameters:params];
//Add your request object to an AFHTTPRequestOperation
AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation = [[[AFHTTPRequestOperation alloc]
initWithRequest:request] autorelease];
//"Why don't I get JSON / XML / Property List in my HTTP client callbacks?"
//see: https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking/wiki/AFNetworking-FAQ
//mattt's suggestion http://stackoverflow.com/a/9931815/1004227 -
//-still didn't prevent me from receiving plist data
//[httpClient registerHTTPOperationClass:
// [AFPropertyListParameterEncoding class]];
[httpClient registerHTTPOperationClass:[AFHTTPRequestOperation class]];
[operation setCompletionBlockWithSuccess:
^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation,
id responseObject) {
NSString *response = [operation responseString];
NSLog(#"response: [%#]",response);
} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
NSLog(#"error: %#", [operation error]);
}];
//call start on your request operation
[operation start];
[httpClient release];
}
Use AFHTTPClient -postPath:parameters:success:failure:, passing your parameters (nested dictionaries/arrays are fine). If you're expecting a plist back, be sure to have the client register AFPropertyListRequestOperation.
In any case, setValue:forHTTPHeaderField: is not what you want here. HTTP headers are for specifying information about the request itself; data is part of the request body. AFHTTPClient automatically converts parameters into either a query string for GET requests or an HTTP body for POST, et al.

Empty JSON returned by AFNetworking on iOS5

I'm trying to load a simple JSON inside my iPhone app using the AFNetworking library. I'm using two different approaches:
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:#"http://www.mysite.com/test.json"];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
AFJSONRequestOperation *operation = [AFJSONRequestOperation JSONRequestOperationWithRequest:request success:^(NSURLRequest *request, NSHTTPURLResponse *response, id JSON) {
NSLog(#"Name: %#", [JSON valueForKeyPath:#"name"]);
} failure:^(NSURLRequest* req,NSHTTPURLResponse *req2, NSError *error,id mex) {
NSLog(#"%#", [error description]);
}];
[operation start];
and using AFHttpClient (which would be my favorite,since it has all the features for dealing with my REST API:
NSString *baseurl = #"http://www.mysite.com";
NSString *path = #"/test.json";
AFHTTPClient *client = [[AFHTTPClient alloc] initWithBaseURL:[NSURL URLWithString:baseurl]];
[client registerHTTPOperationClass:[AFJSONRequestOperation class]];
//[client setAuthorizationHeaderWithUsername:#"myusername" password:#"mypassword"];
[client getPath:path parameters:nil success:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id JSON) {
//NSLog(#"sjson: %#", [JSON valueForKeyPath:#"entries"]);
NSLog(#"sjson: %#", JSON);
} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
NSLog(#"Error Code: %i - %#",[error code], [error localizedDescription]);
}];
now,the problem: in both cases I'm receiving an empty Json. I've tested the server side and the web-service is giving the right response and the right MIME type (application/json).
I've already checked this discussion https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking/issues/175
but my target is pointing to 5.0 and ARC is not enabled for the AFNetworking library.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious here,but I cannot fix it at the moment.
Thanks a lot!
Claus