How to write a url string POST Request

Question

Hey so I have a website that has documentation to POST up information to it. The documentation telling how to post. Comes in a form like this.

Code From Documentation:

curl -X POST "https://api/management/user" \

-d "user_id=myuserid" \

-d "client=clientclientclient" \

-d "secret=secretsecret"

I'm not sure how to write that out in a swift string.

Code:

let string = "https://api/management/user/user_id=myuserid/client=clientclientclient/secret=secretsecret"

Then I can do something like this.

Code:

  let url = NSURL(string: string)
    let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: url! as URL)
    request.httpMethod = "POST"
    let session = URLSession.shared
    let tache = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest) { (data, response, error) -> Void in
    print(data!)
    print(response!)

    }

    tache.resume()

Im NEW to this So what would be the proper way to write the post.

By an POST request would the parameters send within the body! See this accepted answer for an example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6148900/append-data-to-a-post-nsurlrequest — matzino, Nov 21 '17 at 21:38

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 21 '17 at 21:38

You will need to send the data as the HTTP body for the POST request.

if let theURL = URL.init(string:"https://api/management/user"{
   let request = URLRequest(url: theURL)
   request.addValue("application/x-www-form-urlencoded", forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type")
   request.httpMethod = "POST"
   let postString = "user_id=myuserid&client=clientclientclient&secret=secretsecret"
   if let encodedPostString = postString.addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters: CharacterSet.urlHostAllowed), let body = encodedPostString.data(using:.utf8){
      request.httpBody = body
   }
   let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: request) { (data, response, error) -> Void in
      print(data!)
      print(response!)
    }
   task.resume()
}

How to write a url string POST Request

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