Swift GET request with parameters

Question

I'm very new to swift, so I will probably have a lot of faults in my code but what I'm trying to achieve is send a GET request to a localhost server with paramters. More so I'm trying to achieve it given my function take two parameters baseURL:string,params:NSDictionary. I am not sure how to combine those two into the actual URLRequest ? Here is what I have tried so far

    func sendRequest(url:String,params:NSDictionary){
       let urls: NSURL! = NSURL(string:url)
       var request = NSMutableURLRequest(URL:urls)
       request.HTTPMethod = "GET"
       var data:NSData! =  NSKeyedArchiver.archivedDataWithRootObject(params)
       request.HTTPBody = data
       println(request)
       var session = NSURLSession.sharedSession()
       var task = session.dataTaskWithRequest(request, completionHandler:loadedData)
       task.resume()

    }

}

func loadedData(data:NSData!,response:NSURLResponse!,err:NSError!){
    if(err != nil){
        println(err?.description)
    }else{
        var jsonResult: NSDictionary = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data, options: NSJSONReadingOptions.MutableContainers, error: nil) as NSDictionary
        println(jsonResult)

    }

}

Answer 1

I am using this, try it in playground. Define the base urls as Struct in Constants

struct Constants {

    struct APIDetails {
        static let APIScheme = "https"
        static let APIHost = "restcountries.eu"
        static let APIPath = "/rest/v1/alpha/"
    }
}

private func createURLFromParameters(parameters: [String:Any], pathparam: String?) -> URL {

    var components = URLComponents()
    components.scheme = Constants.APIDetails.APIScheme
    components.host   = Constants.APIDetails.APIHost
    components.path   = Constants.APIDetails.APIPath
    if let paramPath = pathparam {
        components.path = Constants.APIDetails.APIPath + "\(paramPath)"
    }
    if !parameters.isEmpty {
        components.queryItems = [URLQueryItem]()
        for (key, value) in parameters {
            let queryItem = URLQueryItem(name: key, value: "\(value)")
            components.queryItems!.append(queryItem)
        }
    }

    return components.url!
}

let url = createURLFromParameters(parameters: ["fullText" : "true"], pathparam: "IN")

//Result url= https://restcountries.eu/rest/v1/alpha/IN?fullText=true