Swagger-codegen: Api calls with Alamofire Background Mode in Swift 3

[ahmettahasakar]

Hello,

Is it possible to make the api calls with alamofire's background mode option, so that tasks can contirnue in the background in Swift 3?

https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire#creating-a-session-manager-with-background-configuration

Thank you.

[keegho]

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[ahmettahasakar]

How about this?

https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire#session-manager

[keegho]

What kind of tasks do you need to run? I think downloading something will work with session manager and then the session will be closed after download but updating a certain status or sending requests to API routes every now and then will not work.

Background fetching on iOS runs only for 3 mins then stops. Even the timer that you add to run a function every now and then will stop.

Your only option is to send remote push notification from the server upon a certain event happening on the server itself to make the user get the app on the foreground when opening the notification. And then fetch the updated data.

[ahmettahasakar]

3 minutes is enough actually.

[keegho]

Great. Then check this link. It will help you to start background fetch sessions.
https://www.raywenderlich.com/143128/background-modes-tutorial-getting-started

[ahmettahasakar]

Hello,

Thank you. I know how to do start upload and download tasks in the baskground with Alamofire. However, I was wondering if such support exists with swagger generated code for swift 3

[ahmettahasakar]

I got it figured out. If you prefer, I can try to put it in a pull request?

[laitheanh]

@ahmettahasakar
I have same a question, and i haven't resolved it. I was searching your pull request but not found.
Can you share your way figured it.
Thank you!

[ahmettahasakar]

Hello,

I ended up not using swagger for background upload. I just used Alamofire alone.

[gowtham2809]

@ahmettahasakar Can you point us to the references that helped you to achieve the task. I am looking for a way to upload few hundred mb of data over Alamofire in background.

[ahmettahasakar]

It has been a while, but it was something like this

https://gist.github.com/toddhopkinson/60cae9e48e845ce02bcf526f388cfa63

[gowtham2809]

Hey, thanks for the reply... Looks like the link is broken. It is throwing a 404

[chrisvanbuskirk]

https://gist.github.com/toddhopkinson/60cae9e48e845ce02bcf526f388cfa63

[IOSDeveloperProgrammer]

I have same question but here, I need to send location to server when app goes background mode. can you help me

[ahmettahasakar]

It's best if you save the location in a file, and upload that file in the background, and process the file contents on the server. If it hasn't changed, background transfer tasks were only allowed for file transfers.