Sending http request with swift

Question

I'm trying to send a http request with swift to an PHP server. I managed on sending data and also reading response of server. I just want my php server to do different action depending on request type that is present in the json request

Here is my method for sending request :

func sendHttpRequests(data : Dictionary<String, AnyObject>) //-> NSDictionary
{
    let url = NSURL ( string : "http://aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd")!
    let request:NSMutableURLRequest = NSMutableURLRequest(URL : url)

    let payload1 = "\"r\":\"login\""
    request.HTTPMethod = "POST"

    request.HTTPBody = payload1.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding);


    NSURLConnection.sendAsynchronousRequest(request, queue: NSOperationQueue.mainQueue())
        {
            (response, data, error) in

            if let httpResponse = response as? NSHTTPURLResponse {
                let responseCode = httpResponse.statusCode
                print("Request Status \(responseCode)")
            }
            do
            {
                let json = try NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data!, options: .AllowFragments)

                print("Json received \(json)")

                if let currItem = json["myKey"] as? String
                {
                    print(currItem)
                }
            }
            catch
            {
                print("error: \(error)")
            }
    }
}

When I just send a response back with this php script i get response successfully :

<?php
$arr = array("myKey" => "myValue");
echo json_encode($arr);
?>

Instead when I try something like this :

<?php
$postVar = $_POST['r'];

if (!empty($postVar)) 
{
     $arr = array("status" => "it's ok");
     echo json_encode($arr);
}
else
{
     $arr = array("status" => "something wrong");
     echo json_encode($arr);
}
?>

I get this error :

Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3840 "Invalid value around character 0." UserInfo={NSDebugDescription=Invalid value around character 0.}

user3069232 user3069232 · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-26T15:28:52

Marco,

Don't use NSMutableURLRequests, use sessions... the former is being deprecated by Apple.

Here is an example ..

func getMetaData(lePath:String, completion: (string: String?, error: ErrorType?) -> Void) {
// **** get_metadata ****
    let request = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: NSURL(string: "https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/get_metadata")!)
    let session = NSURLSession.sharedSession()
    request.HTTPMethod = "POST"

    request.addValue("Bearer ab-blah", forHTTPHeaderField: "Authorization")
    request.addValue("application/json",forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type")
    request.addValue("path", forHTTPHeaderField: lePath)
    let cursor:NSDictionary? = ["path":lePath]
    do {
        let jsonData = try NSJSONSerialization.dataWithJSONObject(cursor!, options: [])
        request.HTTPBody = jsonData
        print("json ",jsonData)
    } catch {
        print("snafoo alert")
    }

    let task = session.dataTaskWithRequest(request, completionHandler: {data, response, error -> Void in
        if let error = error {
            completion(string: nil, error: error)
            return
        }
        let strData = NSString(data: data!, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)
        print("Body: \(strData)\n\n")
        do {
            let jsonResult = try NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data!, options:NSJSONReadingOptions.MutableContainers);
            self.jsonParser(jsonResult,field2file: "ignore")
            for (key, value) in self.parsedJson {
                print("key2 \(key) value2 \(value)")
            }

            completion(string: "", error: nil)
        } catch {
            completion(string: nil, error: error)
        }
    })
    task.resume()

}

Sending http request with swift

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