How it works...

The TaskAPI will accept new tasks as POST requests containing JSON representations of the tasks and will return all the existing tasks via GET requests.

First, let's define a task – in the App group of your Xcode project, create a new file called Task.swift in a new group called Models.

After creating this file, ensure that it is a member of the App target and not any others. The Target Membership panel for our new file should look like this:

Figure 8.2 – Target membership

Now, let's define our task as having two properties: description and category, plus an identifier:

class Task { 
 let id: String 
 var description: String
 var category: String
 
 init(id: String, description: String, category: String) {
 self.id = id
 self.description = description
 self.category = category
 }
}

We can now create a Task in code, like this:

let task = Task(id: "1", description: "Remember the milk", category: 
  "shopping")

However, we...