aerogear-ios-http

Thin layer to take care of your http requests working with NSURLSession. Taking care of:

• Json serializer
• Multipart upload
• HTTP Basic/Digest authentication support
• Pluggable object serialization

100% Swift.

Example Usage

To perform an HTTP request use the convenient methods found in the Http object. Here is an example usage:

let http = Http(baseURL: "http://server.com")

http.GET("/get", completionHandler: {(response, error) in
     // handle response
})

http.POST("/post",  parameters: ["key": "value"], completionHandler: {(response, error) in
     // handle response
})
...

Authentication

The library also leverages the build-in foundation support for http/digest authentication and exposes a convenient interface by allowing the credential object to be passed on the request. Here is an example:

NOTE: It is advised that HTTPS should be used when performing authentication of this type

let credential = NSURLCredential(user: "john", password: "pass", persistence: .None)

http.GET("/protected/endpoint", credential: credential, completionHandler: {(response, error) in
   // handle response
})

You can also set a credential per protection space, so it's automatically picked up once http challenge is requested by the server, thus omitting the need to pass the credential on each request. In this case, you must initialize the Http object with a custom session configuration object, that has its credentials storage initialized with your credentials:

// create a protection space
var protectionSpace: NSURLProtectionSpace = NSURLProtectionSpace(host: "httpbin.org", port: 443,`protocol`: NSURLProtectionSpaceHTTPS, realm: "me@kennethreitz.com", authenticationMethod: NSURLAuthenticationMethodHTTPDigest);

// setup credential
// notice that we use '.ForSession' type otherwise credential storage will discard and
// won't save it when doing 'credentialStorage.setDefaultCredential' later on
let credential = NSURLCredential(user: user, password: password, persistence: .ForSession)

// assign it to credential storage
var credentialStorage: NSURLCredentialStorage = NSURLCredentialStorage.sharedCredentialStorage()
credentialStorage.setDefaultCredential(credential, forProtectionSpace: protectionSpace);

// set up default configuration and assign credential storage
var configuration = NSURLSessionConfiguration.defaultSessionConfiguration()
configuration.URLCredentialStorage = credentialStorage

// assign custom configuration to Http
var http = Http(baseURL: "http://httpbin.org", sessionConfig: configuration)

http.GET("/protected/endpoint", completionHandler: {(response, error) in
  // handle response
})

OAuth2 Protocol Support

To support the OAuth2 protocol, we have created a separate library aerogear-ios-oauth2 that can be easily integrated, in order to provide out-of-the-box support for communicated with OAuth2 protected endpoints. Please have a look at the "Http and OAuth2Module" section on our documentation page for more information.

Do you want to try it on your end? Follow next section steps.

NOTE: The library has been tested with Xcode 6.1.1

Build, test and play with aerogear-ios-http

1. Clone this project

2. Get the dependencies

The project uses aerogear-ios-httpstub framework for stubbing its http network requests and utilizes cocoapods for handling it's dependencies. On the root directory of the project run:

bundle install
bundle exec pod install

3. open AeroGearHttp.xcworkspace

Adding the library to your project

To add the library in your project, you can either use Cocoapods or simply drag the library in your project. See the respective sections below for instructions

Using Cocoapods

At this time, Cocoapods support for Swift frameworks is supported in a preview branch but tests shown that it's pretty stable to use. Simply include a Gemfile in your project pointing to that branch and in your Podfile add:

pod 'AeroGearHttp'

and then:

bundle install
bundle exec pod install

to install your dependencies

Drag the library in your project

Follow these steps to add the library in your Swift project.

1. Clone this repository
2. Add AeroGearHttp.xcodeproj to your application target
3. Start writing your app!

1. Clone this repository

git clone git@github.com:aerogear/aerogear-ios-http.git

2. Add AeroGearHttp.xcodeproj to your application target

Right-click on the group containing your application target and select Add Files To YourApp Next, select AeroGearHttp.xcodeproj, which you downloaded in step 1.

If you run into any problems, please file an issue and/or ask our user mailing list. You can also join our dev mailing list.