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iOS Displaying Data with Table Views in Swift 2 Enhancing the Networking Stack Finishing Up the Networking Stack

Jeremy Medford
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Jeremy Medford
Courses Plus Student 16,096 Points
Posted by Jeremy Medford
Jeremy Medford
Courses Plus Student 16,096 Points

Best way to modify path in VenueEndpoint to include a dynamic path?

In FoursquareClient.swift, the existing path looks like this:

var path: String {
            switch self {
            case .Search: return "/v2/venues/search"
            }
        }

I'm trying to add a case for Tips that takes a VENUE_ID in order to build a path like this:

    var path: String {
        switch self {
        case .Search: return "/v2/venues/search"
        case .Tips: return "/v2/venues/<VENUE_ID>/tips"
        }
    }

At the moment I'm a bit stuck, but I'm going to keep at it and post an answer when I've got it. Thanks.

Reed Carson
Reed Carson
8,306 Points
Reed Carson
Reed Carson
8,306 Points

well right now you are trying to switch on a string as if it is an enum. "path" does not have any cases for you to switch on by calling .Search or .Tips

I dont have enough information to know if this will help you

struct PathMakerDeluxe {

    enum Options: String {
        case Search
        case Tips
    }

    var options: Options = .Search

    var venueID: String = "venue id"

    var path: String {
        switch options {
        case .Search: return "/v2/venues/search"
        case .Tips: return "/v2/venues/\(venueID)/tips"
        }
    }

}

var pathMaker = PathMakerDeluxe()
pathMaker.options = .Tips
pathMaker.venueID = "pengiunsDeluxe"
let path = pathMaker.path
print(path)
// prints out "/v2/venues/pengiunsDeluxe/tips"

this can probably be improved greatly but just off the top of my head I THINK this might accomplish what you want, but I cant be sure without a greater context. Maybe you can pick and choose and modify it to work for you. Or maybe this isnt what you were looking for. If its not what you meant, clarify your question a bit more

Jeremy Medford
Jeremy Medford
Courses Plus Student 16,096 Points
Jeremy Medford
Jeremy Medford
Courses Plus Student 16,096 Points

Ok, I think I found one solution. It's important to note that this is code taken directly from the FoursquareClient.swift file that is part of the the Course listed above.

I have a new case defined prior to the path...

case Tips(clientID: String, clientSecret: String, venueId: String, sort: SortType?, limit: Int?, offset: Int?)

Then my updated path declaration looks like this...

    var path: String {
        switch self {
        case .Search: return "/v2/venues/search"
        case .Tips( _, _, let venueId, _, _, _):

            return "/v2/venues/\(venueId)/tips"
        }
    }

Pretty clean.