Swift 3 URLSession.shared() Ambiguous reference to member 'dataTask(with:completionHandler:) error (bug)

Question

Hello I have working json parsing code for swift2.2 but when i use it for Swift 3.0 gives me that error

ViewController.swift:132:31: Ambiguous reference to member 'dataTask(with:completionHandler:)'

My codes here

   let listUrlString =  "http://bla.com?batchSize=" + String(batchSize) + "&fromIndex=" + String(fromIndex)
    let myUrl = URL(string: listUrlString);
    let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url:myUrl!);
    request.httpMethod = "GET";

    let task = URLSession.shared().dataTask(with: request) {
        data, response, error in

        if error != nil {
            print(error!.localizedDescription)
            DispatchQueue.main.sync(execute: {
                AWLoader.hide()
            })

            return
        }

        do {

            let json = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data!, options: .mutableContainers) as? NSArray

            if let parseJSON = json {

                var items = self.categoryList

                items.append(contentsOf: parseJSON as! [String])

                if self.fromIndex < items.count {

                    self.categoryList = items
                    self.fromIndex = items.count

                    DispatchQueue.main.async(execute: {

                        self.categoriesTableView.reloadData()

                        AWLoader.hide()

                    })
                }else if( self.fromIndex == items.count){


                    DispatchQueue.main.async(execute: {

                        AWLoader.hide()

                    })

                }



            }

        } catch {
            AWLoader.hide()
            print(error)

        }
    }

    task.resume()

Thanks for ideas.

Answer 1

The compiler is confused by the function signature. You can fix it like this:

let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest) {

But, note that we don't have to cast "request" as URLRequest in this signature if it was declared earlier as URLRequest instead of NSMutableURLRequest:

var request = URLRequest(url:myUrl!)

This is the automatic casting between NSMutableURLRequest and the new URLRequest that is failing and which forced us to do this casting here.

Answer 2

You have init'd myRequest as NSMutableURLRequest, you need this:

var URLRequest

Swift is ditching both the NSMutable... thing. Just use var for the new classes.

Answer 3

Xcode 8 and Swift 3.0

Using URLSession:

 let url = URL(string:"Download URL")!
 let req = NSMutableURLRequest(url:url)
 let config = URLSessionConfiguration.default
 let session = URLSession(configuration: config, delegate: self, delegateQueue: OperationQueue.main)

 let task : URLSessionDownloadTask = session.downloadTask(with: req as URLRequest)
task.resume()

URLSession Delegate call:

func urlSession(_ session: URLSession, task: URLSessionTask, didCompleteWithError error: Error?) {

}


func urlSession(_ session: URLSession, downloadTask: URLSessionDownloadTask, 
didWriteData bytesWritten: Int64, totalBytesWritten writ: Int64, totalBytesExpectedToWrite exp: Int64) {
                   print("downloaded \(100*writ/exp)" as AnyObject)

}

func urlSession(_ session: URLSession, downloadTask: URLSessionDownloadTask, didFinishDownloadingTo location: URL){

}

Using Block GET/POST/PUT/DELETE:

 let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: URL(string: "Your API URL here" ,param: param))!,
        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
        timeoutInterval:"Your request timeout time in Seconds")
    request.httpMethod = "GET"
    request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers as? [String : String] 

    let session = URLSession.shared

    let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest) {data,response,error in
        let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse

        if (error != nil) {
         print(error)
         } else {
         print(httpResponse)
         }

        DispatchQueue.main.async {
           //Update your UI here
        }

    }
    dataTask.resume()

Working fine for me.. try it 100% result guarantee

Answer 4

This problem is caused by URLSession has two dataTask methods

open func dataTask(with request: URLRequest, completionHandler: @escaping (Data?, URLResponse?, Error?) -> Swift.Void) -> URLSessionDataTask
open func dataTask(with url: URL, completionHandler: @escaping (Data?, URLResponse?, Error?) -> Swift.Void) -> URLSessionDataTask

The first one has URLRequest as parameter, and the second one has URL as parameter, so we need to specify which type to call, for example, I want to call the second method

let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: url! as URL) {
    data, response, error in
    // Handler
}

Answer 5

In my case error was in NSURL

let url = NSURL(string: urlString)

In Swift 3 you must write just URL:

let url = URL(string: urlString)