Retry Redesign, Redirects, and Cached Responses

Released on 2019-01-07. All issues associated with this milestone can be found using this filter. Note: Alamofire will not be following semantic versioning during the beta process. There may be breaking changes until 5.0.0 is released.

Added

• Support for controlling redirect behavior per Session and per Request using the RedirectHandler protocol.
  • Added by Christian Noon in Pull Request #2699.
• Support for controlling cached response behavior per Session and per Request using the CachedResponseHandler protocol.
  • Added by Christian Noon in Pull Request #2701.
• Support for controlling retry behavior per Session and per Request using the RequestInterceptor protocol.
  • Added by Christian Noon in Pull Request #2704 in regards to Issue #2241.
• The Adapter, Retrier, and Interceptor types to provide fine grained control of retry behavior.
  • Added by Christian Noon in Pull Request #2704.
• Support for exponential backoff retry policies through the new RetryPolicy and ConnectionLostRetryPolicy types.
  • Added by Christian Noon in Pull Request #2704.

Updated

• The RequestRetrier protocol to take a RetryResult in the completion closure allowing custom retry errors to be thrown.
  • Updated by Christian Noon in Pull Request #2704.
• The Hashable implementation on Request to use new hash(into:) API.
  • Updated by Jeff Kelley in Pull Request #2696.