AFHTTPResponseSerializer是用于序列化服务器的响应Response。

初始化

- (instancetype)init {
    self = [super init];
    if (!self) {
        return nil;
    }

    self.acceptableStatusCodes = [NSIndexSet indexSetWithIndexesInRange:NSMakeRange(200, 100)];
    self.acceptableContentTypes = nil;

    return self;
}

• acceptableStatusCodes为可接受的Http状态码，默认为[200, 299]
• acceptableContentTypes为指定的内容类型

判断是否合法的响应response

- (BOOL)validateResponse:(NSHTTPURLResponse *)response
                    data:(NSData *)data
                   error:(NSError * __autoreleasing *)error
{
    BOOL responseIsValid = YES;
    NSError *validationError = nil;

    if ([response isKindOfClass:[NSHTTPURLResponse class]]) {
        if (self.acceptableContentTypes && ![self.acceptableContentTypes containsObject:[response MIMEType]] &&
            !([response MIMEType] == nil && [data length] == 0)) {

            if ([data length] > 0 && [response URL]) {
                NSMutableDictionary *mutableUserInfo = [@{
                                                          NSLocalizedDescriptionKey: [NSString stringWithFormat:NSLocalizedStringFromTable(@"Request failed: unacceptable content-type: %@", @"AFNetworking", nil), [response MIMEType]],
                                                          NSURLErrorFailingURLErrorKey:[response URL],
                                                          AFNetworkingOperationFailingURLResponseErrorKey: response,
                                                        } mutableCopy];
                if (data) {
                    mutableUserInfo[AFNetworkingOperationFailingURLResponseDataErrorKey] = data;
                }

                validationError = AFErrorWithUnderlyingError([NSError errorWithDomain:AFURLResponseSerializationErrorDomain code:NSURLErrorCannotDecodeContentData userInfo:mutableUserInfo], validationError);
            }

            responseIsValid = NO;
        }

        if (self.acceptableStatusCodes && ![self.acceptableStatusCodes containsIndex:(NSUInteger)response.statusCode] && [response URL]) {
            NSMutableDictionary *mutableUserInfo = [@{
                                               NSLocalizedDescriptionKey: [NSString stringWithFormat:NSLocalizedStringFromTable(@"Request failed: %@ (%ld)", @"AFNetworking", nil), [NSHTTPURLResponse localizedStringForStatusCode:response.statusCode], (long)response.statusCode],
                                               NSURLErrorFailingURLErrorKey:[response URL],
                                               AFNetworkingOperationFailingURLResponseErrorKey: response,
                                       } mutableCopy];

            if (data) {
                mutableUserInfo[AFNetworkingOperationFailingURLResponseDataErrorKey] = data;
            }

            validationError = AFErrorWithUnderlyingError([NSError errorWithDomain:AFURLResponseSerializationErrorDomain code:NSURLErrorBadServerResponse userInfo:mutableUserInfo], validationError);

            responseIsValid = NO;
        }
    }

    if (error && !responseIsValid) {
        *error = validationError;
    }

    return responseIsValid;
}

• 若acceptableContentTypes不为nil，则判断[response MIMEType]被包含在acceptableContentTypes中，且数据合法。
• 判断状态码是否在acceptableStatusCodes范围内。

移除NSNull对象

服务器返回的null值会被转换为NSNull对象，可通过下面方法移除：

id AFJSONObjectByRemovingKeysWithNullValues(id JSONObject, NSJSONReadingOptions readingOptions) {
    if ([JSONObject isKindOfClass:[NSArray class]]) {
        NSMutableArray *mutableArray = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:[(NSArray *)JSONObject count]];
        for (id value in (NSArray *)JSONObject) {
            if (![value isEqual:[NSNull null]]) {
                [mutableArray addObject:AFJSONObjectByRemovingKeysWithNullValues(value, readingOptions)];
            }
        }

        return (readingOptions & NSJSONReadingMutableContainers) ? mutableArray : [NSArray arrayWithArray:mutableArray];
    } else if ([JSONObject isKindOfClass:[NSDictionary class]]) {
        NSMutableDictionary *mutableDictionary = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithDictionary:JSONObject];
        for (id <NSCopying> key in [(NSDictionary *)JSONObject allKeys]) {
            id value = (NSDictionary *)JSONObject[key];
            if (!value || [value isEqual:[NSNull null]]) {
                [mutableDictionary removeObjectForKey:key];
            } else if ([value isKindOfClass:[NSArray class]] || [value isKindOfClass:[NSDictionary class]]) {
                mutableDictionary[key] = AFJSONObjectByRemovingKeysWithNullValues(value, readingOptions);
            }
        }

        return (readingOptions & NSJSONReadingMutableContainers) ? mutableDictionary : [NSDictionary dictionaryWithDictionary:mutableDictionary];
    }

    return JSONObject;
}

AFHTTPResponseSerializer

AFHTTPResponseSerializer用于序列为类型为json的响应。

- (instancetype)init {
    self = [super init];
    if (!self) {
        return nil;
    }

    self.acceptableContentTypes = [NSSet setWithObjects:@"application/json", @"text/json", @"text/javascript", nil];

    return self;
}

• 初始化acceptableContentTypes，可接受的内容类型为@"application/json", @"text/json", @"text/javascript"三种。

AFHTTPResponseSerializer序列响应对象

- (id)responseObjectForResponse:(NSURLResponse *)response
                           data:(NSData *)data
                          error:(NSError *__autoreleasing *)error
{
    if (![self validateResponse:(NSHTTPURLResponse *)response data:data error:error]) {
        if (!error || AFErrorOrUnderlyingErrorHasCodeInDomain(*error, NSURLErrorCannotDecodeContentData, AFURLResponseSerializationErrorDomain)) {
            return nil;
        }
    }

    // Workaround for behavior of Rails to return a single space for `head :ok` (a workaround for a bug in Safari), which is not interpreted as valid input by NSJSONSerialization.
    // See https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/1742
    BOOL isSpace = [data isEqualToData:[NSData dataWithBytes:" " length:1]];
    
    if (data.length == 0 || isSpace) {
        return nil;
    }
    
    NSError *serializationError = nil;
    
    id responseObject = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:self.readingOptions error:&serializationError];

    if (!responseObject)
    {
        if (error) {
            *error = AFErrorWithUnderlyingError(serializationError, *error);
        }
        return nil;
    }
    
    if (self.removesKeysWithNullValues) {
        return AFJSONObjectByRemovingKeysWithNullValues(responseObject, self.readingOptions);
    }

    return responseObject;
}

• 首先通过[self validateResponse:(NSHTTPURLResponse *)response data:data error:error]判断是否合法的响应response
• 转换json对象
• 移除NSNull

其它类型

AFXMLParserResponseSerializer用于序列化XML类型
AFXMLDocumentResponseSerializer用于序列化NSXMLDocument类型
AFPropertyListResponseSerializer用于序列化plist类型
AFImageResponseSerializer用于序列化image类型

AFNetworking相关文章：
[AFNetworking]一、简介
[AFNetworking]二、AFURLSessionManager
[AFNetworking]三、AFHTTPSessionManager
[AFNetworking]四、AFURLRequestSerialization
[AFNetworking]五、AFURLResponseSerialization