Handle a JSON Response with Alamofire in Swift - ios

I have a problem I want to handle a JSON Response with Alamofire in Swift
So I found this answer on Stackoverflow unfortunately this post is a few days older.
My question is how can I receive the data from Alamofire on first button press (without swiftyJSON).
I hope someone could help me.
This is the link I found on Stackoverflow.
Handle JSON Response with Alamofire in Swift

this is a small example.
This is what the JSON returns if it fails json_file.json
{ "transaction":"error" }
This is what the JSON returns if its success json_file.json
{ "transaction":"success" }
this is the code , you must add your own URL that will return any of those json responses. (example only)
Alamofire.request(.GET, "http://myjsonexamplewebsite.com/json_file.json", parameters:nil)
.responseJSON { (_, _, JSON, _) in
//println(JSON)
var response = JSON as NSDictionary
var transaction = response.objectForKey("transaction") as String
if transaction == "success" {
NSLog("JSON response was successfull")
}
else {
NSLog("JSON response had an Error")
}
}

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Handle non JSON Response with Generic Codable API client

I have an API client that uses generic API response that conforms to Codable Protocol and uses JSONDecoder to decode the response as shown below, how do I handle having a response which doesn't return JSON ( status code 201 created)?
dataRequest.validate().responseJSON { response in
if let error = response.error {
completion(.failure(error.localizedDescription))
} else if let data = response.data {
do {
let apiResponse = try JSONDecoder().decode(T.Response.self, from: data)
completion(.success(apiResponse))
} catch {
completion(.failure(error.localizedDescription))
}
} else {
completion(.failure("Something went wrong, please try again later."))
}
}
It returns this error:
the response could not be serialized input data was nil or zero-length
In this case you can look at the statusCode property of the response (assuming that it is a HTTPURLResponse) and make your determination about whether or not there will be a body to parse. I would put it immediately after the error check.

Getting field values of Json Object from HTTP response [duplicate]

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i am developing an iOS app in Swift using Xcode. How can I get values of Json object from this HTTP response.I need values of inner message and status.
{"message":"success","statusCode":200,"data":{"message":"already logged in","status":0}}
Thank you in advance :)
First, let me recommend the best 3rd party API for REST calls (HTTP) which called Alamofire.
If you use the below Alamofire example:
Alamofire.request(.GET, "https://httpbin.org/get", parameters: ["foo": "bar"])
.responseJSON { response in
print(response.request) // original URL request
print(response.response) // URL response
print(response.data) // server data
print(response.result) // result of response serialization
// Parsing the JSON
if let JSON = response.result.value {
print("JSON: \(JSON)")
// The actual cast to Dictionary
let jsonDictionary = JSON as! Dictionary<String, AnyObject>
}
}
Basically jsonDictionary will be your JSON dictionary that the keys are String and the values are of type AnyObject (so you could cast to what ever you need) and now you can do the below calls:
let message = json["message"] as? String
Get that dictionary and
let objDict = yourResponseObject.valueForKey("Data") as! NSDictionary
if objDict.valueforkey("message").isequaltoString("already logged in")
{
User logged already
}
else
{
not logged
}

Printing data in Alamofire request

I am trying to print the data returned from an alamofire post request in swift like so:
Alamofire.request(.POST, "http://blablabla.com/test1", parameters: ["operand1": "123"]).response { request, response, data, error in
print(request)
print(response)
print(data, radix: 16)
print(error)
}
but when I try to print data it doesn't print a string a string, instead it prints:
<796570>
I am a bit new to swift so I don't really know if there is a way or a reason for this.
That is the raw server response which is in NSData type. You can make use of some built-in serializers such as .responseString() in order to convert that into user readable value:
Alamofire.request(.POST, "http://blablabla.com/test1", parameters: ["operand1": "123"]).responseString { response in
print("Response String: \(response.result.value)")
}
You can check out other serializers in the Alamofire documentation.

Alamofire Get Request and JSON Response

I'm trying to use the Yoda API and send a request using the Alamofire Swift framework. I know that the API is correctly working, as I have tested the endpoint with my Mashape API key multiple times. I can also see that the requests are being sent (homepage of Mashape under my application). However my JSON response is always nil.
func handleRequest(words:String){
var saying = words.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString(" ", withString: "+");
saying = "?sentence=" + saying;
let url = NSURL(string: (baseURL+saying));
println(url);
var response:String;
Alamofire.Manager.sharedInstance.session.configuration.HTTPAdditionalHeaders = additionalHeaders;
Alamofire.request(.GET, url!).responseJSON { (_, _, JSON, _) in
println(JSON);
}
}
The words string can be "This is my first sentence" and it will automatically replace the spaces with "+" as per the API spec. Please Ignore the multiple println statements, they are just for debugging.
This is just proof of concept code, its purposely not doing much error checking and isn't pretty for that reason. If you have any suggestions I would appreciate them.
For some reason it's an issue I've too with the Alamofire request for JSON. It is the way I handle the JSON requests using Alamofire :
Alamofire.request(.GET, urlTo, parameters: nil, encoding: .URL).responseString(completionHandler: {
(request: NSURLRequest, response: NSHTTPURLResponse?, responseBody: String?, error: NSError?) -> Void in
// Convert the response to NSData to handle with SwiftyJSON
if let data = (responseBody as NSString).dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding) {
let json = JSON(data: data)
println(json)
}
})
I strongly recommend you using SwiftyJSON to manage the JSON in a better and easy way, it's up to you.
I hope this help you.
Alamofire request have several method for handle response. Try to handle data response and convert it to String. Confirm that response JSON is normal.
Alamofire.request(.GET, url!).response { (_, _, data, error) in
let str = NSString(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)
println(str)
println(error)
}
Also checkout error while parsing JSON data.

handle JSON response with SwiftyJSON

I tried a long time to handle a JSON response with SwiftyJSON, but I don't know how to parse the response. Here's my code:
var jsonString:String = ""
Alamofire
.request(.GET, url + "/HMServer/rest/administration/version")
.responseJSON {
(request, response, data, error) -> Void in
let json = JSON(object: data!)
//here I want to do something with parsing
}
The requests I do with Alamofire and get back a JSON response. The response look like:
[message: [SERVER_VERSION: 0.1, INTERFACE_VERSION: 0.1], type: success]
I want to save all elements in strings and give them back. How can I parse the JSON response saved in the let let json? I tried to use Alamofire-SwiftJSON but the code does not work. All examples I found are too old because the SwiftyJSON code was refactored a few days ago.
THX!
I have fixed Alamofire-SwiftJSON's issue,
but you can do it by yourself in responseJSON's closure like:
Alamofire.request(.GET, url + "/HMServer/rest/administration/version")
.responseJSON { (request, response, data, error) -> Void in
if error != nil {
self.swiftyJSON = SwiftyJSON.JSON.Null(error)
} else if object != nil {
self.swiftyJSON = SwiftyJSON.JSON(object: object!)
} else {
self.swiftyJSON = SwiftyJSON.JSON.Null(nil)
}
}
Above code is not like Alamofire-SwiftJSON in the global queue, the initialization (AnyObject to SwiftyJSON) is running in the main queue.

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