Handle timeout with Alamofire

Swift 3

The accepted answer didn't work for me.

After a lot of research, I did it like this:

let manager = Alamofire.SessionManager.default
manager.session.configuration.timeoutIntervalForRequest = 120

manager.request("yourUrl", method: .post, parameters: ["parameterKey": "value"])

Swift 3, Alamofire 4.5.0

I wanted to set the same timeout for every HTTP call in my project.

The key idea is to declare the Alamofire Session Manager as a global variable. Then to create a URLSessionConfiguration variable, set its timeout in seconds and assign it to the manager.

Every call in the project can use this configured session manager.

In my case the global Alamofire Session Manager variable was set in AppDelegate file (globally) and its configuration was managed in its didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method

AppDelegate.swift

import UIKit

var AFManager = SessionManager()

@UIApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate {

    var window: UIWindow?

    func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {

        let configuration = URLSessionConfiguration.default
        configuration.timeoutIntervalForRequest = 4 // seconds
        configuration.timeoutIntervalForResource = 4 //seconds
        AFManager = Alamofire.SessionManager(configuration: configuration)

        return true
    }
    ...
}

From now the Alamofire request function can be called from any part of the app using the afManager.

For example:

AFManager.request("yourURL", method: .post, parameters: parameters, encoding: JSONEncoding.default).validate().responseJSON { response in
    ...
}

You can compare error._code and if it is equal to -1001 which is NSURLErrorTimedOut then you know this was a timeout.

let manager = Alamofire.SessionManager.default
manager.session.configuration.timeoutIntervalForRequest = 120

manager.request("yourUrl", method: .post, parameters: ["parameterKey": "value"])
        .responseJSON {
            response in
            switch (response.result) {
            case .success: // succes path 
            case .failure(let error):
                if error._code == NSURLErrorTimedOut {
                    print("Request timeout!")
                }
            }
        }

Swift 3.x

class NetworkHelper {
    static let shared = NetworkHelper()
    var manager: SessionManager {
        let manager = Alamofire.SessionManager.default
        manager.session.configuration.timeoutIntervalForRequest = 10
        return manager
    }
    func postJSONData( withParams parameters: Dictionary<String, Any>, toUrl urlString: String, completion: @escaping (_ error: Error,_ responseBody: Dictionary<String, AnyObject>?)->()) {
        manager.request(urlString, method: .post, parameters: parameters, encoding: JSONEncoding.default).responseJSON { response in 
            if let error = response.result.error {
                if error._code == NSURLErrorTimedOut {
                    print("Time out occurs!")
                }
            }
        }
    }
}