swift URLRequest doesn't send parameters - swift

Question

In the code below
let bodyData = "?sub=\(id)&name=User&email=test#test.com"
let url = NSURL(string: "https://httpbin.org/get");
let request:NSMutableURLRequest = NSMutableURLRequest(url:url as! URL)
request.httpMethod = "GET"
request.httpBody = bodyData.data(using: String.Encoding.utf8);
NSURLConnection.sendAsynchronousRequest(request as URLRequest, queue: OperationQueue.main)
{
(response, data, error) in
if let HTTPResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse {
let statusCode = HTTPResponse.statusCode
if statusCode == 200 {
// Yes, Do something.
let json = try? JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data!, options: [])
if let dictionary = json as? [String: Any] {
let args = dictionary["args"]
NSLog("args:\(args)")
for (key, value) in dictionary{
NSLog("key:\(key) value:\(value)")
}
}
}
}
}
id is a string passed in to the function.
It has valid data returned, but the test site/url also returns in json format any parameters you send it. But this snippet of code seems to not be sending the query parameters defined in bodyData and I can't figure out why.

Answer 1

If a GET request is used the parameters are appended to the URL and an explicit URLRequest is not needed at all.
This code is native Swift 3 and uses contemporary API:
let id = 12
let bodyData = "?sub=\(id)&name=User&email=test#test.com"
let url = URL(string: "https://httpbin.org/get" + bodyData)!
URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: url) { (data, response, error) in
if error != nil {
print(error!)
return
}
do {
if let json = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data!, options: []) as? [String:Any],
let args = json["args"] as? [String:Any] {
print("args:\(args)")
for (key, value) in args{
print("key:\(key) value:\(value)")
}
}
} catch {
print(error)
}
}.resume()