Swift Requires Chilkat v11.1.0+

POST JSON to REST API with non-us-ascii Chars Escaped

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Demonstrates how to POST to a REST API with non-usascii chars within JSON Unicode escaped. Swift

func chilkatTest() {
    var success: Bool = false

    success = false

    let rest = CkoRest()!

    //  Connect using TLS.
    var bAutoReconnect: Bool = true
    success = rest.connect(hostname: "chilkatsoft.com", port: 443, tls: true, autoReconnect: bAutoReconnect)

    //  Load JSON containing the following Korean text.

    //   {
    //     "BillAddr": {
    //        "Id": "239615",
    //        "Line1": "류리하",
    //        "Line2": "류리하류리하",
    //        "City": "류리하류리하",
    //        "Country": "US",
    //        "CountrySubDivisionCode": "AK",
    //        "PostalCode": "류리하"
    //      }
    //  }

    let json = CkoJsonObject()!
    json.emitCompact = false
    success = json.loadFile(path: "qa_data/json/korean.json")
    if success == false {
        print("\(json.lastErrorText!)")
        return
    }

    success = rest.addHeader(name: "Content-Type", value: "application/json; charset=UTF-8")

    let sb = CkoStringBuilder()!
    json.emitSb(sb: sb)
    sb.encode(encoding: "unicodeescape", charset: "utf-8")

    print("\(sb.getAsString()!)")

    //  The StringBuilder contains this:

    //  {
    //    "BillAddr": {
    //      "Id": "239615",
    //      "Line1": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558",
    //      "Line2": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558\ub958\ub9ac\ud558",
    //      "City": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558\ub958\ub9ac\ud558",
    //      "Country": "US",
    //      "CountrySubDivisionCode": "AK",
    //      "PostalCode": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558"
    //    }
    //  }

    let sbResp = CkoStringBuilder()!
    success = rest.fullRequestSb(httpVerb: "POST", uriPath: "/echo_request_body.asp", requestBody: sb, responseBody: sbResp)
    if success == false {
        print("\(rest.lastErrorText!)")
        return
    }

    //  Show the response. 
    print("Json Response: \(sbResp.getAsString()!)")

}