Proper usage of the Alamofire's URLRequestConvertible

Question

I\'ve read couple tutorials, README from @mattt but can\'t figure out couple things.

1. What is the proper usage of URLRequestConvertible in real

Answer 1

I found a way to work with it, I created a Class with the Router in it: inherit classes from a request

file request.swift

class request{

    func login(user: String, password: String){
        /*use Router.login(params)*/
    }
    /*...*/
    enum Router: URLRequestConvertible {
        static let baseURLString = "http://example.com"
        static let OAuthToken: String?

        case Login([String: AnyObject])
        /*...*/

        var method: Alamofire.Method {
            switch self {
            case .Login:
                return .POST
            /*...*/
        }

        var path: String {
            switch self {
            case .Login:
                return "/login"
            /*...*/
            }
        }

        var URLRequest: NSURLRequest {
            switch self {
                case .Login(let parameters):
                    return Alamofire.ParameterEncoding.URL.encode(mutableURLRequest, parameters: parameters).0
                /*...*/
                default:
                    return mutableURLRequest
            }
        }
    }
}

file requestContacts.swift

class requestContacts: api{

    func getUser(id: String){
        /*use Router.getUser(id)*/
    }
    /*...*/

    enum Router: URLRequestConvertible {

        case getUser(id: String)
        case setUser([String: AnyObject])

        var method: Alamofire.Method {
            switch self {
                case .getUser:
                    return .GET
                case .setUser:
                    return .POST
                /*...*/
            }
        }

        var path: String {
            switch self {
            case .getUser(id: String):
                return "/user\(id)/"
            case .setUser(id: String):
                return "/user/"
            /*...*/
            }
        }
        // MARK: URLRequestConvertible

        var URLRequest: NSURLRequest {
            //use same baseURLString seted before
            let URL = NSURL(string: Router.baseURLString)!
                let mutableURLRequest = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: URL.URLByAppendingPathComponent(path))
                mutableURLRequest.HTTPMethod = method.rawValue

            if let token = Router.OAuthToken {
                mutableURLRequest.setValue("Bearer \(token)", forHTTPHeaderField: "Authorization")
            }
            switch self {
                /*...*/
                case .setUser(let parameters):
                    return Alamofire.ParameterEncoding.URL.encode(mutableURLRequest, parameters: parameters).0
                default: //for GET methods, that doesent need more
                    return mutableURLRequest
            }
        }
    }
}

so the son class will get paramethers of Router from the parent, and you can even use Route.login in any son. still, dont know if there is a way to get a short URLRequest, so i dont need to set parameters again and again