Alamofire 4 missing parameters in POST - ios

Question

Spent hours on this with no success.
I'm using Alamofire to make a HTTP POST to back end server which requires some parameters to be supplied with request.
I'm successfully hitting the server but the server is responding with a 500 stating no parameters were sent?
I've tried most of the SO solutions (changing the encoding type, setting parameters as NSDict, etc) but with no success.
Any help greatly appreciated.
PS its Swift3 with Alamofire 4
Code:
let params: [String: String] = ["deviceID": "Some device ID",
"email": "email","password": "password","userid": "1234",
"username":"gordon"]
let request_params: Parameters = ["LoginUser" : params]
let url = "https://myserver/LogIn" as String
Alamofire.request(url, method: .post, parameters: request_params, encoding: URLEncoding.default, headers: [
"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
]).responseString { (response:DataResponse<String>) in
switch(response.result) {
case.success(let data):
print("success",data)
print(response.response)
case.failure(let error):
print("Failed!",error)
}
}
Update:
Below is the body of the POST, it looks like this is where the problem exists:
Alamofire POST body (from above code) -
(LoginUser%5BdeviceID%5D=12345&LoginUser%5Bemail%5D=gordon%40test.com&LoginUser%5Buserid%5D=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&LoginUser%5Bpassword%5D=testPassword&LoginUser%5Busername%5D=gordon)
It should be something like (ignoring the encoding values):
This is a functional post body-
LoginUser=%7B%22deviceID%22%3A%22%22%2C%22email%22%3A%22gordon%40test.com%22%2C%22password%22%3A%22testPassword%22%2C%22userid%22%3A%2200000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000%22%2C%22username%22%3A%22gordon%22%7D
As you can see the Alamofire post seems to concatenate the LoginUser to start of each attribute? Also missing the LoginUser= at start??

Answer 1

Try to use JSONEncoding.default instead of URLEncoding.default

Answer 2

OK so I got this working with the below code, would be very interested in understanding if this is the most efficient means of posting param?
let params: NSMutableDictionary? = ["deviceID": "someDeviceID",
"email": "emailAddress","password": "aSecret","userid": "12345",
"username":"gordon"]
let url = "https://serverAdrress" as String
let data = try! JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: params!, options: JSONSerialization.WritingOptions.prettyPrinted)
let json: NSString! = NSString(data: data, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue)
let request_params: Parameters = ["LoginUser" : json as Any]
Alamofire.request(url, method: .post, parameters: request_params, encoding: URLEncoding.httpBody, headers: [
"Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
]).responseString { (response:DataResponse<String>) in
switch(response.result) {
case.success(let data):
print("success",data)
print(NSString(data: (response.request?.httpBody)!, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue))
print(response.response)
case.failure(let error):
print("Not Success",error)
}
}