Handling XML data with Alamofire in Swift

Question

I started to use cocoapods with my current ios project. I need to use SOAP to get content with easy way for my ios project. I have googled it and Alamofire pod is great for

Answer 1

Alamofire 4.x - Swift 3.x:

(please note that in this example I've used URLEncoding.default instead of URLEncoding.xml because the xml parameter exclude the possibility to pass parameters and headers, so default is more confortable.)

let url = "https://httpbin.org/get"
let parameters: Parameters = ["foo": "bar"]
let headers: HTTPHeaders = [
    "Authorization": "Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==",
    "Accept": "application/json"
]
Alamofire.request(url, method: .get, parameters: parameters, encoding: URLEncoding.default, headers: headers)
.responseString { response in
    print(" - API url: \(String(describing: response.request!))")   // original url request
    var statusCode = response.response?.statusCode

    switch response.result {
    case .success:
        print("status code is: \(String(describing: statusCode))")
        if let string = response.result.value {
            print("XML: \(string)")
        }
    case .failure(let error):
        statusCode = error._code // statusCode private
        print("status code is: \(String(describing: statusCode))")
        print(error)
    }
}

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Alamofire 3.0 october 2015 and Xcode 7 according to the 3.0.0-beta.3 README and the Alamofire 3.0 Migration Guide.

For me the correct syntax is:

Alamofire.request(.GET, url, parameters: params, encoding: ParameterEncoding.URL).responsePropertyList { response in

            if let error = response.result.error {
                print("Error: \(error)")

                // parsing the data to an array
            } else if let array = response.result.value as? [[String: String]] {

                if array.isEmpty {
                    print("No data")

                } else { 
                    //Do whatever you want to do with the array here
                }
            }
        }

If you want a good XML parser, please take a look to SWXMLHash.

An example could be: let xml = SWXMLHash.parse(string)