Need Similar option in Alamofire to setRequestProperty as in HttpURLConnection Android - swift

Question

I am struggling a lot to set Authorisation token as a connection request property in Alamofire Swift.
I tried sending Auth token in headers and was able to achieve that.
In android we set auth token as HttpUrlConnection.setRequestProperty and the APIs are working fine, but in Swift I have to use same APIs but sending auth token in headers is not helping out.
Options I tried:-
Creating MutableURlRequest and setting HTTPAdditionalHeaders.
var defaultHeaders = Alamofire.Manager.sharedInstance.session.configuration.HTTPAdditionalHeaders ?? [:]
let configuration = NSURLSessionConfiguration.defaultSessionConfiguration()
configuration.HTTPAdditionalHeaders = defaultHeaders
Please anyone help me sending auth token as a request property rather than a header.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You could send authorization token along with other request's parameters, something like this:
private var parameters: [String: AnyObject]? {
switch self {
case Profile(let token, ...):
return ["authCode" : token, ...]
...
}
}
However it's recommended to be send as header, so just for heads-up, this is how I do it:
import Alamofire
// Helper to build Alamofire Requests
enum APIRouter {
static let baseURL = "http://..."
case Authorize(token: String)
...
}
extension APIRouter: URLRequestConvertible {
var URLRequest: NSMutableURLRequest {
let URLRequest = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: URL)
URLRequest.HTTPMethod = method.rawValue
// Server token is set after authorisation and will be applied to the following requests
if let token = SecureManager.sharedInstance.serverToken {
URLRequest.setValue("Bearer \(token)", forHTTPHeaderField: "Authorization")
}
let encoding = Alamofire.ParameterEncoding.URL
let request = encoding.encode(URLRequest, parameters: parameters).0
return request
}
private var URL: NSURL {
let baseURL = NSURL(string: APIRouter.baseURL)
return baseURL!.URLByAppendingPathComponent(path)
}
private var path: String {
switch self {
case Authorize:
return "rest/oauth/authorize"
...
}
}
private var method: Alamofire.Method {
switch self {
case Authorize:
return .POST
...
}
}
private var parameters: [String: AnyObject]? {
switch self {
...
}
}
}