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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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Preface 1. Getting Started with Server Swift FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating the Native App 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

REST API in action

Let's try out our API by making a simple HTTP request.  We will start with creating API requests and then confirm that the resources are created correctly by fetching the newly created resource. We will also test, update, delete, and clear the database to make sure it works as expected. Let's see it in action.

Creating the Shopping List

Creating a ShoppingList using the API is simple: make a POST HTTP request with the JSON representation of our Shopping List object so that it can create a new instance of it and save it in the database. The following is a screenshot of the POST HTTP request made to my local API server using an app called Postman:

You should see the server respond back with...

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