Swift Playground REST Request

You can run this example in Swift Playground using MacOS.

Replace _YOUR_ENDPOINT with the url of your REST Endpoint.

 
// Foundation is required for URLSession 
import Foundation 
 
// PlaygroundSupport: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/playgroundsupport 
import PlaygroundSupport 
 
let url = URL(string: "[YOUR_ENDPOINT]")! 
 
// needsIndefiniteExecution is required for async code https://developer.apple.com/documentation/playgroundsupport/playgroundpage/1964501-needsindefiniteexecution 
PlaygroundPage.current.needsIndefiniteExecution = true 
 
// shared.dataTask saves the data in memory 
//https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/urlsession/1407613-datatask 
let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: url) { 
     
    // @escaping closure 
    // https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/Closures.html 
    (data, response, error) in 
     
    // guard is like if but exit if the check fails 
    guard error == nil else { 
        print(error!) 
        return 
    } 
     
    guard let responseData = data else { 
        print("Error: no data") 
        return 
    } 
     
    guard let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse else { 
        print("Error: Response Error") 
        return 
    } 
     
    // we decode the json answer and we print it 
    let content = String(decoding: data!, as: UTF8.self) 
    print("Response data: \(content)") 
         
    PlaygroundPage.current.finishExecution() 
} 
// start the task 
task.resume()