Feature Request - Allows load arbitery URL data which is not an image

[huangboju]

Thank you for providing such a great repo

I think you can open more api

For example: I want to use SDWebImagePrefetcher download some files, preload and cache

but in the SDWebImageDownloaderOperation, the data must is ImageData

otherwise, it will be error

[dreampiggy]

I want to use SDWebImagePrefetcher download some files, preload and cache but in the SDWebImageDownloaderOperation, the data must is ImageData

@huangboju You mean, you want to download something Not a Image, for example, download https://www.baidu.com/index.html or https://github.com/SDWebImage/SDWebImage/archive/5.6.1.zip into a raw data ?

If your downloaded file, can represent a Image in some aspect, for example, like SDWebImageLinkPlugin which query the website favicon icon, you can do this. But, for any other than image, we can not help...

Because this beyond SDWebImage's capabilities, we're WebImage, not a Network Framework 😅

[dreampiggy]

Actually, I think using NSURLSession directlly is not hard as our API...

[huangboju]

@dreampiggy I don't just want to download files, include cache management

If i rewrite a Prefetcher , it will have a lot of duplicate code in my project

I think SDWebImage can become more powerful and modular

After all, most programmers can't write such good downloader and cacher

[dreampiggy]

Seems a feature request which will effect the API (Because now, the completion block does not contains Image, maybe we can make it a protocol to callback anything).

Marked as 6.0.0 milestone.

You can join https://gitter.im/SDWebImage/community here to talk in Chiniese about your use case

[dreampiggy]

For temp workaround, you can use Custom Download Operation, to override the URLSession:task:didCompleteWithError: method.

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