I'm trying to ultimately have an NSMutableURLRequest
with a valid HTTPBody
, but I can't seem to get my string data (coming from a UITextField
) into a usable NSData
object.
I've seen this method for going the other way:
NSString(data data: NSData!, encoding encoding: UInt)
But I can't seem to find any documentation for my use case. I'm open to putting the string into some other type if necessary, but none of the initialization options for NSData
using Swift seem to be what I'm looking for.
In Swift 3
let data = string.data(using: .utf8)
In Swift 2 (or if you already have a NSString
instance)
let data = string.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)
In Swift 1 (or if you have a swift String
):
let data = (string as NSString).dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)
Also note that data
is an Optional<NSData>
(since the conversion might fail), so you'll need to unwrap it before using it, for instance:
if let d = data {
println(d)
}