RSNetworking

You can find RSNetworking on GitHub with this URL https://github.com/hoffmanjon/RSNetworking.

RSNetworking is a network library written entirely in the Swift programming language. RSNetworking is built using Apple's powerful URL loading system (https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/URLLoadingSystem/URLLoadingSystem.html), which features the NSURLSession class that we used earlier in this chapter. The main design goal of RSNetworking is to make it easy and quick for developers to add powerful asynchronous networking requests to their applications that are written in Swift.

There are three ways that we can use RSNetworking, which are as follows:

• RSURLRequest: This API provides a very simple and easy interface to make single GET requests to a service.

• RSTransaction and RSTransactionRequest: These APIs provide a very powerful and flexible way to make both GET and POST requests to a service. This API also makes it very easy to make multiple requests to...