RxAlamofire

RxAlamofire is a RxSwift wrapper around the elegant HTTP networking in Swift Alamofire.

Getting Started

Wrapping RxSwift around Alamofire makes working with network requests a smoother and nicer task. Alamofire is a very powerful framework and RxSwift add the ability to compose responses in a simple and effective way.

A basic usage is (considering a simple currency converter):

let formatter = NSNumberFormatter()
formatter.numberStyle = .CurrencyStyle
formatter.currencyCode = "USD"
if let fromValue = NSNumberFormatter().numberFromString(self.fromTextField.text!) {

RxAlamofire.requestJSON(.get, sourceStringURL)
                .debug()
                .subscribe(onNext: { [weak self] (r, json) in
                    if let dict = json as? [String: AnyObject] {
                        let valDict = dict["rates"] as! Dictionary<String, AnyObject>
                        if let conversionRate = valDict["USD"] as? Float {
                            self?.toTextField.text = formatter
                                .string(from: NSNumber(value: conversionRate * fromValue))
                        }
                    }
                    }, onError: { [weak self] (error) in
                        self?.displayError(error as NSError)
                })
                .addDisposableTo(disposeBag)

} else {
    self.toTextField.text = "Invalid Input!"
}

Example Usages

Currently, the library features the following extensions:

let stringURL = ""

// MARK: NSURLSession simple and fast
let session = NSURLSession.sharedSession()

_ = session.rx
        .json(.get, stringURL)
        .observeOn(MainScheduler.instance)
        .subscribe { print($0) }

_ = session
    .rx.data(.get, stringURL)
    .observeOn(MainScheduler.instance)
    .subscribe { print($0) }

// MARK: With Alamofire engine

_ = json(.get, stringURL)
    .observeOn(MainScheduler.instance)
    .subscribe { print($0) }

_ = request(.get, stringURL)
    .flatMap { request in
        return request.validate(statusCode: 200..<300)
        .validate(contentType: ["text/json"])
            .rx.json()
    }
    .observeOn(MainScheduler.instance)
    .subscribe { print($0) }

// progress
_ = request(.get, stringURL)
    .flatMap {
        $0
        .validate(statusCode: 200 ..< 300)
        .validate(contentType: ["text/json"])
        .rx.progress()
    }
    .observeOn(MainScheduler.instance)
    .subscribe { print($0) }

// just fire upload and display progress
_ = upload(Data(), urlRequest: try! RxAlamofire.urlRequest(.get, stringURL))
    .flatMap {
        $0
        .validate(statusCode: 200 ..< 300)
            .validate(contentType: ["text/json"])
            .rx.progress()
    }
    .observeOn(MainScheduler.instance)
    .subscribe { print($0) }

// progress and final result
// uploading files with progress showing is processing intensive operation anyway, so
// this doesn't add much overhead
_ = request(.get, stringURL)
    .flatMap { request -> Observable<(Data?, RxProgress)> in
        let validatedRequest = request
            .validate(statusCode: 200 ..< 300)
            .validate(contentType: ["text/json"])
        
        let dataPart = validatedRequest
            .rx.data()
            .map { d -> Data? in d }
            .startWith(nil as Data?)
        let progressPart = validatedRequest.rx.progress()
        return Observable.combineLatest(dataPart, progressPart) { ($0, $1) }
    }
    .observeOn(MainScheduler.instance)
    .subscribe { print($0) }


// MARK: Alamofire manager
// same methods with any alamofire manager

let manager = Manager.sharedInstance

// simple case
_ = manager.rx.json(.get, stringURL)
    .observeOn(MainScheduler.instance)
    .subscribe { print($0) }


// URLHTTPResponse + JSON
_ = manager.rx.responseJSON(.get, stringURL)
    .observeOn(MainScheduler.instance)
    .subscribe { print($0) }

// URLHTTPResponse + String
_ = manager.rx.responseString(.get, stringURL)
    .observeOn(MainScheduler.instance)
    .subscribe { print($0) }

// URLHTTPResponse + Validation + String
_ = manager.rx.request(.get, stringURL)
    .flatMap {
        $0
            .validate(statusCode: 200 ..< 300)
            .validate(contentType: ["text/json"])
            .rx.string()
    }
    .observeOn(MainScheduler.instance)
    .subscribe { print($0) }

// URLHTTPResponse + Validation + URLHTTPResponse + String
_ = manager.rx.request(.get, stringURL)
    .flatMap {
        $0
        .validate(statusCode: 200 ..< 300)
        .validate(contentType: ["text/json"])
        .rx.responseString()
    }
    .observeOn(MainScheduler.instance)
    .subscribe { print($0) }

// URLHTTPResponse + Validation + URLHTTPResponse + String + Progress
_ = manager.rx.request(.get, stringURL)
    .flatMap { request -> Observable<(String?, RxProgress)> in
        let validatedRequest = request
            .validate(statusCode: 200 ..< 300)
            .validate(contentType: ["text/something"])
            
        let stringPart = validatedRequest
            .rx.string()
            .map { d -> String? in d }
            .startWith(nil as String?)
        let progressPart = validatedRequest.rx.progress()
        return Observable.combineLatest(stringPart, progressPart) { ($0, $1) }
    }
    .observeOn(MainScheduler.instance)
    .subscribe { print($0) }

Installation

There are two ways to install RxAlamofire

CocoaPods

Just add to your project's Podfile:

pod 'RxAlamofire'

Carthage

Add following to Cartfile:

github "RxSwiftCommunity/RxAlamofire" "master"

Manually

To manual install this extension you should get the RxAlamofire/Source/RxAlamofire.swift imported into your project, alongside RxSwift and Alamofire.

Requirements

RxAlamofire requires Swift 3.0 and dedicated versions of Alamofire (4.0) and RxSwift (3.0.0-beta.1).

goa/RxAlamofire