Alamofire HTTP library with Xcode 8 and Swift 3

Had to figure out how to use the Swift 3 branch. Didn’t find the instructions elsewhere.

Build instructions (Swift 3, iOS 10)

Assumes Xcode 8.0 β6, iOS 10 target (with Swift 3), Mac Homebrew with git

1. Download Alamofire framework using git to get swift3 branch

   cd Project  # Xcode project created with git source control
   git submodule add https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire.git
   cd Alamofire
   git checkout swift3
   cd ..
   git add Alamofire
   git commit -m "moved Alamofire to swift3 branch"
   

2. Follow additional instructions on integrating with Xcode project
   • Manual instructions
3. Use snippet example below to see that it works!

Snippet to test Alamofire in AppDelegate

A couple of notes about Swift 3

• the enum’s are lowercase (.get instead of .GET)
• provide all argument names in function calls

//
//  AppDelegate.swift
//

import UIKit
import Alamofire

@UIApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate {

    var window: UIWindow?

    func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
        // Override point for customization after application launch.
        Alamofire.request("https://httpbin.org/get", withMethod: .get)
            .responseJSON(completionHandler: {response in
                debugPrint(response.request)
                print(response.response)
                print(response.result.value)
                })
        return true
    }

Example output

Optional(https://httpbin.org/get)
Optional(<NSHTTPURLResponse: 0x60800002ea40> { URL: https://httpbin.org/get } { status code: 200, headers {
    "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" = "*";
    "Content-Length" = 316;
    "Content-Type" = "application/json";
    Date = "Sat, 20 Aug 2016 14:32:18 GMT";
    Server = nginx;
    "access-control-allow-credentials" = true;
} })
Optional({
    args =     {
    };
    headers =     {
        Accept = "*/*";
        "Accept-Encoding" = "gzip;q=1.0, compress;q=0.5";
        "Accept-Language" = "en-US;q=1.0";
        Host = "httpbin.org";
        "User-Agent" = "Project/com.example.Project (1; iOS 10.0.0)";
    };
    origin = "8.8.8.8";
    url = "https://httpbin.org/get";
})

Published on August 20, 2016