Building URLs in Swift
Can we be safe? GET AWAY STRINGS!
Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging
You might be using RESTful services, and using both GET and POST requests (and indeed more).
How can we easily access our API and the API Endpoints, while maximising reuse in our application?
The answer is contained below!
Prerequisites:
- Be able to produce a “Hello, World!” iOS application (guide HERE)
- Know something about commenting in Swift (guide HERE)
Terminology
API: Application programming interface. A set of accessible tools for building software applications
Endpoint: An endpoint is a remote computing device that communicates back and forth with a network to which it is connected
String: A collection of Characters
URL: Uniform Resource Locator. An address of a web page or resource.
Motivation
Simply creating a URL from a String is easy. Some Might Say that it is too easy in Swift and doesn’t need a second thought from developers.
Let us take the following URL as a simple sampleAPI endpoint…
