BigBrother

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.

BigBrother is a Swift library made for iOS that automatically watches for any performed request and sets the network activity indicator.

This is mostly a proof of concept, having several limitations because of how

NSURLProtocol

• NSURLProtocol

  doesn't inherit

  NSURLSession

  's configured headers (see https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire/issues/473)

• NSURLProtocol

  isn't compatible with authentication APIs (see https://github.com/marcelofabri/BigBrother/issues/2)

It was inspired by this comment by Mattt Thompson.

It also was based on this tutorial for creating an

NSURLProtocol

AFNetworkActivityIndicatorManager

Usage

Adding

Adding to

NSURLConnection

and

NSURLSession.sharedSession()

BigBrother.addToSharedSession()

Adding to a custom

NSURLSessionConfiguration

var configuration = NSURLSessionConfiguration.defaultSessionConfiguration()

BigBrother.addToSessionConfiguration(configuration)
let session = NSURLSession(configuration: configuration)

Removing

Removing from

NSURLConnection

and

NSURLSession.sharedSession()

BigBrother.removeFromSharedSession()

Removing from a custom

NSURLSessionConfiguration

var configuration = NSURLSessionConfiguration.defaultSessionConfiguration()

BigBrother.removeFromSessionConfiguration(configuration)
let newSession = NSURLSession(configuration: configuration)

REMINDER

It is important to configure your NSURLSessionConfiguration object appropriately before using it to initialize a session object. Session objects make a copy of the configuration settings you provide and use those settings to configure the session. Once configured, the session object ignores any changes you make to the NSURLSessionConfiguration object. If you need to modify your transfer policies, you must update the session configuration object and use it to create a new NSURLSession object.

Advanced usage

BigBrother.URLProtocol

NSURLProtocol

NSURLSessionConfiguration

NSURLProtocol

NSURLConnection

NSURLSession.sharedSession()

BigBrother.Manager

BigBrother.Manager.sharedInstance.incrementActivityCount()

// do something...
BigBrother.Manager.sharedInstance.decrementActivityCount()

Installation

BigBrother is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod 'BigBrother'

Then run

pod install

Unit Tests

Unit testing is done with

XCTest

Collaborating

• If you found a bug, open an issue.
• If you have a feature request, open an issue.
• If you want to contribute, submit a pull request. They're more than welcome!

Contact

Marcelo Fabri

• http://www.marcelofabri.com
• @marcelofabri_
• [email protected]

License

BigBrother is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.