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NewRestaurantViewController.swift

import UIKit
import Alamofire

class NewRestaurantViewController: UIViewController {
  
  static let REST_UPLOAD_API_URL = "YOUR_POST_REQUEST_URL"
  
  override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // If you have any autorization headers 
        let authToken = "Token \(user_token!)"
        
        let headers = [
            "Authorization": authToken
        ]
    
        let parameters: Parameters = ["name": "test_place",
                                      "description": "testing image upload from swift"]
    
        Alamofire.upload(
                    multipartFormData: { multipartFormData in
                        if let image = self.imageView.image {
                            let imageData = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image1, 0.8)
                            multipartFormData.append(imageData!, withName: "image", fileName: "photo.jpg", mimeType: "jpg/png")
                        }
                        for (key, value) in parameters {
                            if value is String || value is Int {
                                multipartFormData.append("\(value)".data(using: .utf8)!, withName: key)
                            }
                        }
                },
                    to: REST_UPLOAD_API_URL,
                    headers: headers,
                    encodingCompletion: { encodingResult in
                        switch encodingResult {
                        case .success(let upload, _, _):
                            upload.responseJSON { response in
                                debugPrint(response)

                            }
                        case .failure(let encodingError):
                            print("encoding Error : \(encodingError)")
                        }
                })
    
    }
  
  
}