Okay... so this is a REALLY ugly test but it gets the point of what I'm looking for across... (hopefully) I wanted to (as a sanity check) test the response of a web service. I'm using AFNetworking and the responses are by default asynchronous. To get around this in my tests I do a little something like this: I'm curious to know what others have …

Async Test with AFNetworking

-(void)testThatICanMakeAWebRequest
{
 
    __block BOOL complete = NO;
   __block NSString *response;
 
    NSRunLoop *loop = [NSRunLoop currentRunLoop];
    
    NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://some.nifty.url.com"];
    
    AFHTTPClient *httpClient = [[AFHTTPClient alloc]initWithBaseURL:url];
    
    [httpClient getPath:@"/myservice" parameters:nil success:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject){
        response = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:responseObject encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        complete = YES;
        
    }failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error){
        STFail(@"The Request Failed!");
        complete = YES;
    }];
 
    while(!complete && [loop runMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode beforeDate: [NSDate distantFuture]]);
 
    //Assert what I'm looking for in response
}