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MultipartRequest for Uploading images and forms to a server using URLSession in Swift
/// MultipartRequest by Dan Rosenstark
/// Thanks to tinyurl.com/2qpbyh7v: this code is just a remix
///
/// Steps to use
/// 1. init
/// 2. add form fields (if any)
/// 3. add file data (if any)
/// 4. grab the urlRequest and use it
struct MultipartRequest {
private let boundary = "Boundary-\(UUID().uuidString)"
private let url: URL
private var formFields = [String]()
private var fileDatas = [Data]()
init(url: URL) {
self.url = url
}
var urlRequest: URLRequest {
var request = URLRequest(url: url)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.setValue("multipart/form-data; boundary=\(boundary)", forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type")
request.httpBody = body
return request
}
mutating func addFormField(named name: String, value: String) {
var fieldString = "--\(boundary)\r\n"
fieldString += "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"\(name)\"\r\n"
fieldString += "\r\n"
fieldString += "\(value)\r\n"
formFields.append(fieldString)
}
mutating func addFileData(fieldName: String, fileName: String, mimeType: String, fileData: Data) {
let data = NSMutableData()
data.append(string: "--\(boundary)\r\n")
data.append(string: "Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"\(fieldName)\"; filename=\"\(fileName)\"\r\n")
data.append(string: "Content-Type: \(mimeType)\r\n\r\n")
data.append(fileData)
data.append(string: "\r\n")
let result: Data = data as Data
fileDatas.append(result)
}
private var body: Data {
let body = NSMutableData()
for field in formFields {
body.append(string: field)
}
for fileDatum in fileDatas {
body.append(fileDatum)
}
body.append(string: "--\(boundary)--")
return body as Data
}
}
fileprivate extension NSMutableData {
func append(string: String) {
if let data = string.data(using: .utf8) {
self.append(data)
}
}
}
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