A tiny networking library

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Copyright 2015 Chris Eidhof

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tiny-networking.swift

// See the accompanying blog post: http://chris.eidhof.nl/posts/tiny-networking-in-swift.html



public enum Method: String { // Bluntly stolen from Alamofire
    case OPTIONS = "OPTIONS"
    case GET = "GET"
    case HEAD = "HEAD"
    case POST = "POST"
    case PUT = "PUT"
    case PATCH = "PATCH"
    case DELETE = "DELETE"
    case TRACE = "TRACE"
    case CONNECT = "CONNECT"
}

public struct Resource<A> {
    let path: String
    let method : Method
    let requestBody: NSData?
    let headers : [String:String]
    let parse: NSData -> A?
}

public enum Reason {
    case CouldNotParseJSON
    case NoData
    case NoSuccessStatusCode(statusCode: Int)
    case Other(NSError)
}

public func apiRequest<A>(modifyRequest: NSMutableURLRequest -> (), baseURL: NSURL, resource: Resource<A>, failure: (Reason, NSData?) -> (), completion: A -> ()) {
    let session = NSURLSession.sharedSession()
    let url = baseURL.URLByAppendingPathComponent(resource.path)
    let request = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: url)
    request.HTTPMethod = resource.method.rawValue
    request.HTTPBody = resource.requestBody
    modifyRequest(request)
    for (key,value) in resource.headers {
        request.setValue(value, forHTTPHeaderField: key)
    }
    let task = session.dataTaskWithRequest(request){ (data, response, error) -> Void in
        if let httpResponse = response as? NSHTTPURLResponse {
            if httpResponse.statusCode == 200 {
                if let responseData = data {
                    if let result = resource.parse(responseData) {
                        completion(result)
                    } else {
                        failure(Reason.CouldNotParseJSON, data)
                    }
                } else {
                    failure(Reason.NoData, data)
                }
            } else {
                failure(Reason.NoSuccessStatusCode(statusCode: httpResponse.statusCode), data)
            }
        } else {
            failure(Reason.Other(error), data)
        }
    }
    task.resume()
}

// Here are some convenience functions for dealing with JSON APIs

public typealias JSONDictionary = [String:AnyObject]

func decodeJSON(data: NSData) -> JSONDictionary? {
    return NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data, options: NSJSONReadingOptions.allZeros, error: nil) as? [String:AnyObject]
}

func encodeJSON(dict: JSONDictionary) -> NSData? {
    return dict.count > 0 ? NSJSONSerialization.dataWithJSONObject(dict, options: NSJSONWritingOptions.allZeros, error: nil) : nil
}

public func jsonResource<A>(path: String, method: Method, requestParameters: JSONDictionary, parse: JSONDictionary -> A?) -> Resource<A> {
    let f = { decodeJSON($0) >>= parse }
    let jsonBody = encodeJSON(requestParameters)
    let headers = ["Content-Type": "application/json"]
    return Resource(path: path, method: method, requestBody: jsonBody, headers: headers, parse: f)
}

Great sample code! But it compiles with an error on line 75.
Could not find an overload for '>>=' that accepts the supplied arguments.

Can you provide the code for this operator function? Thanks.

Gr. Bas.

Never mind. I didn't read the accompanying blog post that well enough. The answer is in the required code from the JSON article. See http://chris.eidhof.nl/posts/json-parsing-in-swift.html
Although I had to change the operator from >>= to >>>=.

Thanks 😄

@chriseidhof: Would it be possible to put a license on this? I'd like to use a substantial part of it for a project :)

@chriseidhof
Throws an error in line 77: let f = { decodeJSON($0) >>= parse }
"Left side of mutating operator isn't mutable: 'decodeJSON' returns an immutable value". Tried making it return a mutable value though, then it complained it couldn't apply binary operation between NSData -> JSONDictionary? and JSONDictionary? -> _

@chriseidhof I adapted your library to Swift 2.2. Feel free to comment on the adaptation!
https://gist.github.com/Arvkon/9ad7d9e83ac65634f5df8557746f4978/revisions (revision 4)