Alamofire + Codable

API.swift

class API {
    static let apiKey = "test"
    static let baseUrl = ""
    
    enum Endpoint {
        case login
        case register
        
        var endpoint: String {
            switch self {
            case .login:
                return "login"
            case .register:
                return "register"
            }
        }
    }
    
    static func createUrl(endpoint: Endpoint) -> String {
        return "\(API.baseUrl)\(endpoint.endpoint)"
    }
}

APIRepresentable.swift

import Foundation
import Alamofire

protocol APIRequestRepresentable {
    associatedtype CodableType: APIModelCodable
    
    static var method: Alamofire.HTTPMethod { get set }
    static var endpoint: API.Endpoint { get set }
    static func request(parameters: Codable?, completion: @escaping (_ object: CodableType?, _ error: ErrorResponse?) -> Void)
    static func defaultHeaderObject() -> DefaultHeader
    static func defaultHeader() -> HTTPHeaders
    static func tokenHeader(token: String) -> HTTPHeaders
    static func url() -> String
}

extension APIRequestRepresentable {
    static func defaultHeaderObject() -> DefaultHeader {
        return DefaultHeader(contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8", apiKey: API.apiKey)
    }
    
    static func defaultHeader() -> HTTPHeaders {
        return defaultHeaderObject().asStringValueDictionary()
    }
    
    static func tokenHeader(token: String) -> HTTPHeaders {
        return TokenHeader(defaultHeader: defaultHeaderObject(), token: "Bearer \(token)").asStringValueDictionary()
    }
    
    static func url() -> String {
        return API.createUrl(endpoint: endpoint)
    }
    
    static func request(parameters: Codable?, completion: @escaping (_ object: CodableType?, _ error: ErrorResponse?) -> Void) {
        AlamoHelper.manager.request(
            url(),
            method: method,
            parameters: parameters?.asDictionary(),
            encoding: JSONEncoding.default,
            headers: defaultHeader()).responseJSON { response in
                //each response should have a status code and a json value
                guard let statusCode = response.response?.statusCode else {
                    completion(nil, ErrorResponse(reason: "Could not get status code"))
                    return
                }
                
                guard let jsonValue = response.result.value else {
                    completion(nil, ErrorResponse(reason: "Could not get JSON value"))
                    return
                }
                
                guard let data = try? JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: jsonValue) else {
                    completion(nil, ErrorResponse(reason: "Could not parse data"))
                    return
                }
                
                if 200...299 ~= statusCode {
                    //success
                    completion(CodableType.from(data: data), nil)
                } else {
                    //error - we need a JSONDecoder here because `ErrorResponse` does not conform to APIModel
                    completion(nil, try? JSONDecoder().decode(ErrorResponse.self, from: data))
                }
        }
    }
}

LoginRequest.swift

import Foundation
import Alamofire
import SwiftyJSON

struct LoginRequest: APIRequestRepresentable {
    typealias CodableType = User
    static var method: Alamofire.HTTPMethod = .post
    static var endpoint: API.Endpoint = .login
}

Model.swift

import Foundation

protocol APIModel {
    var id: Int { get set }
}

typealias APIModelCodable = APIModel & Codable

extension APIModel where Self: Codable {
    static func from(json: String, using encoding: String.Encoding = .utf8) -> Self? {
        guard let data = json.data(using: encoding) else { return nil }
        return from(data: data)
    }
    
    static func from(data: Data) -> Self? {
        let decoder = JSONDecoder()
        decoder.dateDecodingStrategy = .iso8601
        return try? decoder.decode(Self.self, from: data)
    }
    
    var jsonData: Data? {
        let encoder = JSONEncoder()
        encoder.dateEncodingStrategy = .iso8601
        return try? encoder.encode(self)
    }
    
    var jsonString: String? {
        guard let data = self.jsonData else { return nil }
        return String(data: data, encoding: .utf8)
    }
}

User.swift

import Foundation

struct User: APIModelCodable {
    var id: Int
    var name: String
    var email: String
    var admin: Bool
    var token: String
}

ViewController.swift

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        let loginRequest = Login(email: "[email protected]", password: "password")
        LoginRequest.request(parameters: loginRequest) { (user, error) in
            //`user` is of type `User` thanks to the typealias declaration in `LoginRequest`
        }
    }
}

Hey, great gist; is there a chance you can include AlamoHelper code please as well as asDict() extension?

p.s. Why do you need SwiftyJSON imported so on if you are using Codable??
It would be great to see how Codable works with CoreData and Alamofire...

How can this be adapted to return a collection of models? For example if you were to get all users for instance?

AlamoHelper and DefaultHeader are missing..

great gist , but like the others will search for the AlamoHelper idea