swift - sendAsynchronousRequest was deprecated in iOS 9, How to alter code to fix

Question

Below is my code I am getting the issue with:

func parseFeedForRequest(request: NSURLRequest, callback: (feed: RSSFeed?, error: NSError?) -> Void)
{
    NSURLConnection.sendAsynchronousRequest(request, queue: NSOperationQueue.mainQueue()) { (response, data, error) -> Void in

        if ((error) != nil)
        {
            callback(feed: nil, error: error)
        }
        else
        {
            self.callbackClosure = callback

            let parser : NSXMLParser = NSXMLParser(data: data!)
            parser.delegate = self
            parser.shouldResolveExternalEntities = false
            parser.parse()
        }
    }
}

This is now deprecated as of iOS 9, and is telling me to use dataTaskWithRequest instead. Can someone help me change sendAsync with dataTask, I don't know how to.

Answer 1

Use NSURLSession instead like below,

For Objective-C

NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sharedSession];
[[session dataTaskWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:"YOUR URL"]
          completionHandler:^(NSData *data,
                              NSURLResponse *response,
                              NSError *error) {
            // handle response

  }] resume];

For Swift,

    var request = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: NSURL(string: "YOUR URL")!)
    var session = NSURLSession.sharedSession()
    request.HTTPMethod = "POST"

    var params = ["username":"username", "password":"password"] as Dictionary<String, String>

    request.HTTPBody = try? NSJSONSerialization.dataWithJSONObject(params, options: [])

    request.addValue("application/json", forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type")
    request.addValue("application/json", forHTTPHeaderField: "Accept")

    var task = session.dataTaskWithRequest(request, completionHandler: {data, response, error -> Void in
        print("Response: (response)")})

    task.resume()

For asynchronously query, from Apple docs

Like most networking APIs, the NSURLSession API is highly asynchronous. It returns data in one of two ways, depending on the methods you call:

To a completion handler block that returns data to your app when a transfer finishes successfully or with an error.

By calling methods on your custom delegate as the data is received.

By calling methods on your custom delegate when download to a file is complete.