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Kahlil DozierKahlil Dozier 

Native iOS development in Swift- how to post a comment using SFRestRequest and Chatter API?

In Objective C, I follow the steps as outlined here and it works fine: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.noversion.mobile_sdk.meta/mobile_sdk/ios_rest_apis_using_methods.htm?search_text=forceios

But when following the same steps translating the code into Swift, I run into an issue with the SFRestRequest initializer, whose signature is below:
 
Public convenience init(method: SFRestMethod, path: String, queryParams: [String : String]?)

As you can see, queryParams takes a Swift Dictionary with a key and value of the String type.  But when you follow the example, it seems you end up with a Dictionary with a key of the String type and value of the Dictionary type; and thus we have a type mismatch.

This doesn't seem to be a problem in Objective C, because upon inspection of the method signature in SFRestRequest.m, queryParams appears to be able to take a generic NSDictionary: 
 
+ (instancetype)requestWithMethod:(SFRestMethod)method path:(NSString *)path queryParams:(NSDictionary *)queryParams

For reference here is the Swift code I'm trying out:
 
//build the queryParams dictionary from a JSON String
let body: String = "{ \"body\" :{\"messageSegments\" :[{ \"type\" : \"Text\",\"text\" : \"My Comment\"}]}}"
        let queryParams = SFJsonUtils.objectFromJSONString(body) as! [String:AnyObject] 
//construct and send the request
        let request = SFRestRequest(method: SFRestMethod.POST, path: "/services/data/v36.0/connect/communities/my_community_ID/chatter/feed-elements/my_element_ID/capabilities/comments/items", queryParams: queryParams as? [String:String])
        SFRestAPI.sharedInstance().send(request, delegate: self)

But unwrapping queryParams fails and resolves to nil.  Trying to forcefully cast queryParams to [String:String] does not work either, and just causes a crash.

How might I get around this?
 
Best Answer chosen by Kahlil Dozier
Kahlil DozierKahlil Dozier
So what I did was to follow the directions outlined in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24002369/how-to-call-objective-c-code-from-swift to create an Objective-C file that my Swift code could call.  

Below are my Objective-C interface/implementation files:

SFRestRequestSending.h:
 
//
//  SFRestRequestSending.h
//

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <SalesforceRestAPI/SalesforceRestAPI.h>
#import <SalesforceSDKCore/SalesforceSDKCore.h>
/*This is an Objective-C wrapper class that exists to allow swift classes to use the requestWithMethod:path:queryParams: method of the SFRestRequest class whenever we have a non-nil value for queryParams.  Currently, this method plays fine accepting generic NSDictionaries in Objective-C, but requires a Dictionary specifically typed [String:String] in Swift.  This might be a bug in the SalesforceRestAPI framework, because we need to pass generic swift dictionaries to this method to form some requests.*/
@interface SFRestRequestSending : NSObject

@property(nonatomic,strong) SFRestRequest* restRequest;
/*
 parameter "method" is an NSInteger which refers to the http request method:
 
 GET = 0
 POST = 1
 PUT = 2
 DELETE = 3
 HEAD = 4
 PATCH = 5 */

//standard SFRestRequest
-(id)initWithMethod:(NSInteger)method path:(NSString*)path queryParams:(NSDictionary*)queryParams;

 SFRestRequestSending.m:
 
//
//  SFRestRequestSending.m
//

#import "SFRestRequestSending.h"
#import "My_Project_Name-Swift.h"

@implementation SFRestRequestSending

-(id)initWithMethod:(NSInteger)method path:(NSString *)path queryParams:(NSDictionary *)queryParams{
    self = [super init];
    if(self){
        self.restRequest = [SFRestRequest requestWithMethod:method path:path queryParams:queryParams];
    }
    return self;
}
@end

Replace "My_Project_Name" with the name of your Xcode project, as specified in the stack overflow directions. 

Then, from swift, I would call this class like:
 
//compose and execute a GET request
let requestWrapper = SFRestRequestSending(withMethod: 0, path: myPath, queryParams: paramDict);

let request = requestWrapper.restRequest;

SFRestAPI.sharedInstance().send(request, delegate: myDelegate);

 

All Answers

Kahlil DozierKahlil Dozier
Just as an aside, I have achieved a temporary workaround: I created an objective-C class whose only purpose is to call the SFRestRequest method in objective-C, and then call this code from my Swift code.  It works, but it still doesn't solve the problem that I am unable to call this method in Swift. 
Niklas AlvaeusNiklas Alvaeus
I have the same problem, still even after the new 5.0

Are you abel to share your objective-c class please?
 
Kahlil DozierKahlil Dozier
So what I did was to follow the directions outlined in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24002369/how-to-call-objective-c-code-from-swift to create an Objective-C file that my Swift code could call.  

Below are my Objective-C interface/implementation files:

SFRestRequestSending.h:
 
//
//  SFRestRequestSending.h
//

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <SalesforceRestAPI/SalesforceRestAPI.h>
#import <SalesforceSDKCore/SalesforceSDKCore.h>
/*This is an Objective-C wrapper class that exists to allow swift classes to use the requestWithMethod:path:queryParams: method of the SFRestRequest class whenever we have a non-nil value for queryParams.  Currently, this method plays fine accepting generic NSDictionaries in Objective-C, but requires a Dictionary specifically typed [String:String] in Swift.  This might be a bug in the SalesforceRestAPI framework, because we need to pass generic swift dictionaries to this method to form some requests.*/
@interface SFRestRequestSending : NSObject

@property(nonatomic,strong) SFRestRequest* restRequest;
/*
 parameter "method" is an NSInteger which refers to the http request method:
 
 GET = 0
 POST = 1
 PUT = 2
 DELETE = 3
 HEAD = 4
 PATCH = 5 */

//standard SFRestRequest
-(id)initWithMethod:(NSInteger)method path:(NSString*)path queryParams:(NSDictionary*)queryParams;

 SFRestRequestSending.m:
 
//
//  SFRestRequestSending.m
//

#import "SFRestRequestSending.h"
#import "My_Project_Name-Swift.h"

@implementation SFRestRequestSending

-(id)initWithMethod:(NSInteger)method path:(NSString *)path queryParams:(NSDictionary *)queryParams{
    self = [super init];
    if(self){
        self.restRequest = [SFRestRequest requestWithMethod:method path:path queryParams:queryParams];
    }
    return self;
}
@end

Replace "My_Project_Name" with the name of your Xcode project, as specified in the stack overflow directions. 

Then, from swift, I would call this class like:
 
//compose and execute a GET request
let requestWrapper = SFRestRequestSending(withMethod: 0, path: myPath, queryParams: paramDict);

let request = requestWrapper.restRequest;

SFRestAPI.sharedInstance().send(request, delegate: myDelegate);

 
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Oh yes, many thanks, you saved my day. Not sure why this is not sorted in v5.0. Anyhow, able to use it now via this method. Thanks again.
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