Swift can't send URLRequest at all?

Question

No matter what I do it seems I'm unsuccessful in sending requests. Given the below sample code I copied word for word just to see the results. Yet nothing happens, I'm really confused and need help figuring out why i can send requests fine with objective c but no matter how many variations NSURLRequest NSURLSession I try it never works on swift.

var url : String = "http://google.com?test=toto&test2=titi"

var request : NSMutableURLRequest = NSMutableURLRequest()
request.URL = NSURL(string: url)
request.HTTPMethod = "GET"

NSURLConnection.sendAsynchronousRequest(request, queue: NSOperationQueue(),

    completionHandler:{ (response:NSURLResponse!, data: NSData!, error: NSError!) -> Void in
        var error: AutoreleasingUnsafeMutablePointer<NSError?> = nil
        let jsonResult: NSDictionary! = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data, options:NSJSONReadingOptions.MutableContainers, error: error) as? NSDictionary

        if (jsonResult != nil) {
            println("help me")
            // process jsonResult
        } else {
            println("hmmm")
            // couldn't load JSON, look at error
        }
})

Answer 1

DO NOT test network asynchronous requests on a commande line project. The execution flow will stop before the asynchronousRequest terminates... You would need to add a run loop for that. Check out this link for an example.

You should take the habit to print out everything you get from a request, to understand what is going on. You can comment out everything after you are sure the request is working as expected.

var url : String = "http://google.com?test=toto&test2=titi"

var request : NSMutableURLRequest = NSMutableURLRequest()
request.URL = NSURL(string: url)
request.HTTPMethod = "GET"

NSURLConnection.sendAsynchronousRequest(request, queue: NSOperationQueue(),

    completionHandler:{ (response:NSURLResponse!, data: NSData!, error: NSError!) -> Void in

        println("OK")

        var strData = NSString(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)

        println("Body: \(strData)\n\n")
        println("Response: \(response)")

        var err:NSError?
        let jsonResult: NSDictionary! = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data, options:NSJSONReadingOptions.MutableContainers, error: &err) as? NSDictionary

        if (jsonResult != nil) {
            println("jsonresult : \(jsonResult)")
            // process jsonResult
        } else {
            println(err.debugDescription)
            // couldn't load JSON, look at error
        }
})

I added a line to print the NSData converted to a NSString. Here the data is nil.

That explains the JSON parsing error.

Also, the way you create the error is not right. Check out my version to correct it.