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Networking: Sending Urlrequest Using Urlsession

The document discusses how to send URL requests using URLSession in Swift. It explains that a URLSession handles networking operations on a background thread, sending a URLRequest containing the server URL, method, headers, and body. A data task is created to send the request and handle the response. The main steps are to create a URL object, URLRequest, URLSession, data task, send the request, and handle the response on the main thread.

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Networking: Sending Urlrequest Using Urlsession

The document discusses how to send URL requests using URLSession in Swift. It explains that a URLSession handles networking operations on a background thread, sending a URLRequest containing the server URL, method, headers, and body. A data task is created to send the request and handle the response. The main steps are to create a URL object, URLRequest, URLSession, data task, send the request, and handle the response on the main thread.

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Networking

Sending URLRequest using URLSession Mr. Ahmed Qazzaz

last update Dec. 1st., 2019


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URL

✤ URL class used to hold a valid web URL link

✤ Simply create URL object from String

✤ Example

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URLRequest

✤ URLRequest class will contain all the request information

✤ The server URL

✤ Method (GET, POST, PATCH, PUT, DELETE)

✤ Headers (e.g. Content-Type, Authentication …)

✤ Body

✤ … etc
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URLSESSION

✤ Session is the class that is responsible of sending the


request and waiting for the response (i.e. opening a
background thread to handle the networking operations)

✤ Session can be used for

✤ Data transferring

✤ Downloading

✤ Uploading
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Data Task

✤ Task is the last object in the making request operation


chain, which contains the completion handler of the
response.

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Response

✤ When making a request usually the response will be

✤ HTTP ERROR (400, 402, 403, 404, 500, 502, …etc)

✤ SUCCESS (200, 201, …etc)

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Execution Steps

Main Thread

Normal app
execution
DataTask Thread Server
Session will open
new thread
Send request
and waits response

Dispatch and UI
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Prepare Request

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Prepare Request

✤ Create URL object from string

✤ it should be a valid URL


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Prepare Request

✤ Create URLRequest object based on URL Object

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Prepare Request

✤ Create URLSession Object using a default session


configurations

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Prepare Request

✤ Create a DataTask that will send the request and


handle the response

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Prepare Request

✤ Send the request

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Prepare Request

✤ Any code will be written here, will be executed when


the response fetched from the server

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