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Synchronous Network Calls in Swift CLI

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Swift Package Manager

swift package init –type executable
swift package generate-xcodeproj
swift build
.build/debug/CommandLineTool

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// swift-tools-version:4.1
// The swift-tools-version declares the minimum version of Swift required to build this package.

import PackageDescription

let package = Package(
name: "CommandLineTool",
dependencies: [
.package(
url: "https://github.com/mxcl/PromiseKit",
from: Version("6.0.0")
),
.package(
url: "https://github.com/yannickl/AwaitKit.git",
from: Version("5.0.0")
),
.package(
url: "https://github.com/SwiftyJSON/SwiftyJSON.git",
from: Version("4.0.0")
)
],
targets: [
.target(
name: "CommandLineTool",
dependencies: ["CommandLineToolCore"]
),
.target(
name: "CommandLineToolCore",
dependencies: ["PromiseKit", "AwaitKit", "SwiftyJSON"]
)
]
)

XCode

PromiseKit

AwaitKit

SwiftyJSON

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import Foundation
import PromiseKit
import AwaitKit
import SwiftyJSON

public final class CommandLineTool {
private let arguments: [String]

public init(arguments: [String] = CommandLine.arguments) {
self.arguments = arguments
}

func fetch(url: URL) -> Promise<Data> {
return Promise { seal in
URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: url) { data, _, error in
seal.resolve(data, error)
}.resume()
}
}


public func run() throws {

print("fetching...")
do {
let data = try await(fetch(url: URL(string: "https://api.github.com/users/bluemix")!))
print("JSON(data)[\"name\"]: \(JSON(data)["name"])")

} catch {
print("error: \(error)")
}
}
}