How to connect to a web service using NSURLSession with Delegate methods?

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I am taking a stab at connecting to web services in iOS and I am running into a lot of problems. I found a practice web service here - http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/tempconvert.asmx?op=CelsiusToFahrenheit

I have written this code out so far

    let soapMessage = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n"
    "<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns:soap=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">\n"
    "<soap:Body>\n"
    "<CelsiusToFahrenheit xmlns=\"http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/\">\n"
    "<Celsius>50</Celsius>\n"
    "</CelsiusToFahrenheit>\n"
    "</soap:Body>\n"
    "</soap:Envelope>\n"

    let url = NSURL(string: "http://w3schools.com/webservices/tempconvert.asmx")!

    var request = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: url)

    let messageLength = "\(soapMessage.utf16Count)"
    NSLog("\(messageLength)")
    request.addValue("text/xml; charset=utf-8", forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Type")
    request.addValue("http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/CelsiusToFahrenheit", forHTTPHeaderField: "SOAPAction")
    request.addValue(messageLength, forHTTPHeaderField: "Content-Length")
    request.HTTPMethod = "POST"
    request.HTTPBody = soapMessage.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding, allowLossyConversion: false)

    var urlSession: NSURLSession = NSURLSession(configuration: NSURLSessionConfiguration.defaultSessionConfiguration(), delegate: self, delegateQueue: NSOperationQueue.mainQueue())

It works to connect but my response comes back as as text/html and not text/xml. My question is why is it returning incorrectly? Also do I use a NSURLSessionDataTask or NSURLSessionDownloadTask?

You would e better off converting the soapMessage to NSData early and then using the data count, not the utf16Count considering you are converting to data with the string format: NSUTF8StringEncoding. — zaph
– zaph, Commented Nov 17, 2014 at 3:23

user5851203 · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-28 09:32:39Z

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for your case, i think its NSURLSessionDataTask. based on this site: http://www.kaleidosblog.com/nsurlsession-in-swift-get-and-post-data

answered Jan 28, 2016 at 9:32

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