IOS5 - AFNetworking processing request - iphone

Question

I'm making an application in which I have to call some webservices. I chose to work with AFNetworking.
I followed the Twitter example provided in the library. Everything works well except that I have permanently the little "processing circle" in the notification bar (see the image below).
Here's the code I have for my request :
- (id)initWithAttributes:(NSDictionary *)attributes
{
self = [super init];
if (!self) {
return nil;
}
_name = [attributes valueForKeyPath:#"name"];
return self;
}
+ (void)itemsListWithBlock:(void (^)(NSArray *items))block
{
NSUserDefaults *defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
NSDictionary *user = [defaults objectForKey:#"user"];
NSDictionary *company = [defaults objectForKey:#"company"];
NSMutableDictionary *mutableParameters = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
/*
** [ Some stuff to set the parameters in a NSDictionnary ]
*/
MyAPIClient *client = [MyAPIClient sharedClient];
[[AFNetworkActivityIndicatorManager sharedManager] setEnabled:YES];
[[AFNetworkActivityIndicatorManager sharedManager] incrementActivityCount];
NSURLRequest *request = [client requestWithMethod:#"POST" path:#"getMyList" parameters:mutableParameters];
AFJSONRequestOperation *operation = [AFJSONRequestOperation JSONRequestOperationWithRequest:request success:^(NSURLRequest *request, NSHTTPURLResponse *response, id JSON) {
NSMutableArray *mutableItems = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:[JSON count]];
for (NSDictionary *attributes in JSON) {
ListItem *item = [[ListItem alloc] initWithAttributes:attributes];
[mutableItems addObject:item];
}
if (block) {
block([NSArray arrayWithArray:mutableItems]);
}
} failure:^(NSURLRequest *request, NSHTTPURLResponse *response, NSError *error, id JSON){
[[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Error" message:[error localizedDescription] delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:nil otherButtonTitles:#"Ok", nil] show];
if (block) {
block(nil);
}
}];
[operation start];
}
Does this means my request isn't finished ? I'm not really getting what I'm doing wrong here...
If someone could help, I'd really appreciate. Thanks.

Answer 1

Don't call [[AFNetworkActivityIndicatorManager sharedManager] incrementActivityCount]; this increase the activity count with 1 and the [operation start]; will call it also. now the activity count is 2 and will get decreased when the operation is done. But since you called the incrementActivityCount it will bring it back to 1 and not 0.
Just call [[AFNetworkActivityIndicatorManager sharedManager] setEnabled:YES]; once, for example place it in the application:applicationdidFinishLaunchingWithOptions: method of your applications appDeletage.
Also I would suggest to add the operation to a NSOperationQueue and not just call start on it.