repeating characters... about swifthttp

[daltoniam]

Are you using xCode 6 or 6.1? Can you share an example of the Swift code you used?

[acmacalister]

I tried this out in Xcode 6.1 with my Github Swift project that is using SwfitHTTP against the Github API I was able to decode the JSON without any repeating characters.

https://github.com/acmacalister/Github-Swift

[daltoniam]

Also, do you have multiple requests going at once? If you call println() from multiple threads/requests, then you could possibly get mixed characters in the debugger output, but the values in the actual data object should be fine.

[rblalock]

Maybe its because I'm out of date. I'm using Xcode Version 6.0.1 (6A317)

Code is as simple as

        httpRequest.GET(path, parameters: nil, success: {(response: HTTPResponse) in
            if response.responseObject != nil {
                let data = response.responseObject as NSData
                let str = NSString(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)
                println(str);
            }

        }, failure: {(error: NSError) in
            println(error);
        });

[daltoniam]

I think that Xcode version should be ok, it is the version I am running. To narrow it down, can you try this for me:

println("starting a request") //check to see if the request is run twice...
httpRequest.GET(path, parameters: nil, success: {(response: HTTPResponse) in
    println("success!")
    if response.responseObject != nil {
        let data = response.responseObject as NSData
        let str = NSString(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)
        println(str)
    }

}, failure: {(error: NSError) in
    println(error)
})

[rblalock]

Oh snap. It is!

starting a request
starting a request
ssuucccceessss!!

{{""ssuucccceessss""::ttrruuee,,""iidd""::""bb4422ddb33e5200--44ff11cc--1111ee44--99881188--aa11997733ffbbaa88ffee33"",,""aaccccoouunnttss""::[[]]}}

[rblalock]

wait. duh. Sorry. That's because I am calling this twice in my call for two separate requests. They are two separate instances though. When I was using NSURLSession - the two request instances worked.

[rblalock]

Yeh so what I'm seeing is I'm entering in to the method that calls this http lib twice...but it only ever makes once request.

[daltoniam]

yeah that makes sense. The println() aren't "thread safe" so they are running into each other. Your response data should be fine, but just to show:

println("starting a request") //check to see if the request is run twice...
httpRequest.GET(path, parameters: nil, success: {(response: HTTPResponse) in
    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(),{ //putting it on the main thread to make the logging look nice
      println("success!")
      if response.responseObject != nil {
        let data = response.responseObject as NSData
        let str = NSString(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)
        println(str)
      }
    })

}, failure: {(error: NSError) in
    println(error)
})

[rblalock]

Ah I see. I guess from a dev user UX, I would've expected the success callback to behave the same as NSURLSession dataTaskWithRequest's callback (or similar method).

Thanks! This lib looks great.

[daltoniam]

Sweet, thanks for the feedback!