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Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift

You're reading from   Hands-On Full-Stack Development with Swift Develop full-stack web and native mobile applications using Swift and Vapor

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788625241
Length 356 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ankur Patel Ankur Patel
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Server Swift 2. Creating the Native App FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Started with Vapor 4. Configuring Providers, Fluent, and Databases 5. Building a REST API using Vapor 6. Consuming API in App 7. Creating Web Views and Middleware 8. Testing and CI 9. Deploying the App 10. Adding Authentication 11. Building a tvOS App 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding a Shopping List


To add a Shopping List to our app is as simple making a POST request to theĀ /shopping_lists endpoint with the JSON representation of our Shopping List Model that we want to create. We need to make this request to our Vapor API server and wait for a success response that contains the newly created shopping list object in JSON format. We will then convert it to a ShoppingList model and call the onCompletion handler function that is passed so that the ShoppingListTableViewController can add this new shopping list in its array of lists and tell the Table View to reload with this new Shopping List that is saved on the server.

To implement the add functionality that persists the new Shopping List in the database via our API, we need to follow these steps:

  1. Open the ShoppingList.swift file in the iOS project and add a new computed property called data. This property will return an optional data type and it will return data in JSON format. We will use JSONSerializer to convert...
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