Network Requests

Sends HTTP network requests.

BMSURLSession is an alternative to BaseRequest that provides more flexibility and control over requests and their responses.

It is built as a wrapper around Swift’s URLSession API that incorporates Bluemix Mobile Services. It automatically gathers Mobile Analytics data on each network request, and can be used to access backends that are protected by Mobile Client Access.

Currently, BMSURLSession only supports URLSessionDataTask and URLSessionUploadTask.

Sends HTTP network requests.

BaseRequest is a simpler alternative to BMSURLSession that requires no familiarity with Swift’s URLSession API.

When building a BaseRequest object, all components of the HTTP request must be provided in the initializer, except for the requestBody, which can be supplied as Data when sending the request via send(requestBody:completionHandler:).

Sends HTTP network requests.

Request is functionally equivalent to BaseRequest. For more information on how to use Request, see the documentation for BaseRequest.

Contains useful response data from an HTTP request made by the Request class.

The HTTP method to be used in the Request class initializer.