[SOLVED] How to track the progress of a download using ASIHTTPRequest (ASYNC)

How to track the progress of a download using ASIHTTPRequest (ASYNC)

I am currently using an asynchronous call to my API (I setup) on my site. I am using ASIHTTPRequest's setDownloadProgressDelegate with a UIProgressView. However I don't know how I can call a selector (updateProgress) which will set a CGFloat 'progress' to the progressView's progress. I tried the following, but both the progresses were zero. Please can you tell me how I can get this working?

(in some method)

ASIHTTPRequest *request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:[url stringByAppendingFormat:@"confidential"]]];
    [request setDownloadProgressDelegate:progressView];
    [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:1.0f/60.0f target:self selector:@selector(updateProgress:) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];
    [request setCompletionBlock:^{~100 lines of code}];
    [request setFailedBlock:^{~2 lines of code :) }];
    [request startAsynchronous];

- (void) updateProgress:(NSTimer *)timer {
    if (progressView.progress < 1.0) {
        currentProgress = progressView.progress;
        NSLog(@"currProg: %f --- progressViewProg: %f", currentProgress, progressView.progress);
    }
    else {
        [timer invalidate];
    }
    return;
}

Solution

Try to add in to your request:

[request setShowAccurateProgress:YES];

It won't help you to call updateProgress, ASIHTTPRequest will change progress indicator itself.