Wattle is an example of a super-simple Swift wrapper for NSURLConnection that makes your life smoother when it comes to talking to your API. Basically it's a replacement for Alamofire. It looks like this:
// Simplest possible example.
"emojis".get { response in
print(response.responseJSON)
}
// A querystring param.
"meta".get(["since": "2015-01-02"]) { response in
print(response.responseJSON)
}
// Some parsing (i'd recommend you should put parsing as an extension on your model classes).
"users".get { response in
if let users = response.responseJSON as? [NSDictionary] {
let names = users.map { $0["login"]! }
print(names)
} else {
print("Error: \(response.error)")
}
}
This isn't a Cocoapod, rather the idea is that you'd use this as an example of how to build your own wrapper, or simply copy-and-paste the Wattle folder into your project to start with, and customise it from that point as your requirements evolve. Hopefully this way, you'll get a better understanding of how it works (and it's only 125 lines of code anyway) and it'll 'fit' better with your needs.
This project came out of the realisation that AFNetworking 2 wasn't a great match for Swift (also it has been crashy/security-buggy over the last year), and Alamofire is very feature-limited which made it difficult to use for my needs. Finally, NSURLSession is quite a nice API, so it doesn't really need much of a wrapper anyway.
This is an example Xcode project that uses Wattle. Look at Networking/ViewController.swift to see how to use it.
Look in the Networking/Wattle folder to see the networking code. It's only 125 lines of code at last count! Super simple.
Since Alamofire was named after the state flower of Mattt's home state, I thought I'd name this after Australia's national flower.