SyncHTTP

Eonil, 2019.

Performs several HTTP calls synchronously in most reliable way.

• There are small needs for synchronous HTTP calls in Swift.
• Unfortunately URLSession is asynchronous only.
• There are several pitfalls to make it synchronous.

This library provide these features.

• Synchronous HTTP call using URLSession.

• This does not involve semaphore or lock.

  • Semaphores are likely to cause some subtle issues with URLSession.
  • Based on repeated thread sleeping.

• Carefully designed and tuned for short-running, CLI programs.

  • Never cached.
  • State-less.
  • Fails faster than default. 10 second timeout.

• Maybe doesn't work well in other situations.

• Future proof simple API.

  • Implementation can be replaced for better one later.
  • You don't have to change your code.

Getting Started

Add Swift package.

.package(url: "https://github.com/eonil/swift-sync-http", from: "0.0.3"),

Import.

import SyncHTTP

And use.

let reply = try SyncHTTP.get(address: "https://google.com")
print(reply)

License & Credits

Licensed under "MIT License". Copyright(C) Eonil 2019.