Swift 4 write a post request with Alamofire and Codable - swift

Question

I'm trying to send a post request with a Codable model via Alamofire.
Where do I put in the data that I've encoded? Thanks for your help in advance.
Here is my model that I'm sending
final class Score: Codable {
var id: Int?
var name: String
var level: Int
var userID: Int
init(
id: Int? = nil, name: String, level: Int, userID: Int) {
self.id = id
self.name = name
self.level = level
self.userID = userID
}
convenience init() {
self.init(name: "", level: 0, userID: 0)
}
}
Here is the function to send.
#IBAction func postWithAF(_ sender: Any) {
let anotherScore = Score()
anotherScore.level = 5
anotherScore.name = "Syd Luckenbach"
anotherScore.userID = 3
let jsonData = try encoder.encode(anotherScore)
let headers: HTTPHeaders = [
"Content-Type": "application/json"
]
Alamofire.request("http://192.168.1.5:8080/json/\(anotherScore)/addScore", method: .post, headers: headers, encoding: JSONEncoding.default).responseJSON { response in
print("Request: \(String(describing: response.request))") // original url request
print("Response: \(String(describing: response.response))") // http url response
print("Result: \(response.result)") // response serialization result
if let json = response.result.value {
print("JSON: \(json)") // serialized json response
self.textView.text = "JSON: \(json)"
}
if let data = response.data, let utf8Text = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8) {
print("Data: \(utf8Text)") // original server data as UTF8 string
self.textView.text.append(" Data: \(utf8Text)")
}
}
}

Answer 1

Create URLRequest before sending the request via Alamofire. Try the example code:
var request = URLRequest(url: "http://192.168.1.5:8080/json/\(anotherScore)/addScore")!
request.setValue("application/json", "Content-Type")
request.httpMethod = .post
request.httpBody = jsonData
Alamofire.request(request).responseJSON {
(response) in
print(response)
}

Answer 2

You can achieve this in a single Alamofire line. For your example (with AF 5.x) this would look like
import Alamofire
func sendJSONViaPOSTRequest(data: Score) {
AF.request(
"some URL",
method: .post,
parameters: data,
encoder: JSONParameterEncoder.default,
// (Optionally) any additional headers.
// 'Content-Type: application/json' is applied automatically.
headers: yourHeaders)
// Followed by any downstream processing methods here
}