Why can't I make a request with SessionManager in Alamofire 4.0?

Question

just upgraded to Alamofire 4.0 for Swift 3.0 support. I was previously using a Manager object and making all requests from there. This Manager object has since been renamed to SessionManager however there are no request methods there anymore. Why is this? If I instead use Alamofire.request to make my requests then how do I use the session managers configuration with this?

Answer 1

You should be able to use SessionManager.request. From the docs :

Top-level convenience methods like Alamofire.request use a default instance of Alamofire.SessionManager, which is configured with the default URLSessionConfiguration.

As such, the following two statements are equivalent:

 Alamofire.request("https://httpbin.org/get") let sessionManager = Alamofire.SessionManager.default sessionManager.request("https://httpbin.org/get")