Can I somehow do a synchronous HTTP request via NSURLSession in Swift

Question

Can I somehow do a synchronous HTTP request via NSURLSession in Swift?

I can do an asynchronous request via the following code:

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Answer 1

Updated one of the answers to use a URLRequest instead, so we can use PUT etc instead.

extension URLSession {
    func synchronousDataTask(urlrequest: URLRequest) -> (data: Data?, response: URLResponse?, error: Error?) {
        var data: Data?
        var response: URLResponse?
        var error: Error?

        let semaphore = DispatchSemaphore(value: 0)

        let dataTask = self.dataTask(with: urlrequest) {
            data = $0
            response = $1
            error = $2

            semaphore.signal()
        }
        dataTask.resume()

        _ = semaphore.wait(timeout: .distantFuture)

        return (data, response, error)
    }
}

I'm calling like this.

var request = URLRequest(url: url1)
request.httpBody = body
request.httpMethod = "PUT"
let (_, _, error) = URLSession.shared.synchronousDataTask(urlrequest: request)
if let error = error {
    print("Synchronous task ended with error: \(error)")
}
else {
    print("Synchronous task ended without errors.")
}