Swift IOS: how to make a REST POST request

I am trying to implement POST

with raw text in path

, I tried using NSMutableURLRequest

and specifying the following

request.HTTPMethod = "POST"
request.HTTPBody = "some strings here"

      

        
        
        
      

    

I was not able to get much more than this as I failed unsuccessfully in implementation session.uploadTaskWithRequest

.

This, however, is what I worked fine for the request GET

;

private func get(path: String)
{
    let url = NSURL(string: path)
    let session = NSURLSession.sharedSession()

    let task = session.dataTaskWithURL(url, completionHandler: { data, response, error -> Void in

        println("JSON recieved")
        if(error)
        {
            println(error.localizedDescription)
        }
        println("Parsing JSON")
        var err: NSError?
        var jsonResult = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data, options: NSJSONReadingOptions.MutableContainers, error: &err) as NSDictionary
        if(err != nil)
        {
            println("Json error");
        }
        println("Building Array result list from JSON")
        var results = jsonResult["results"] as NSArray
        self.delegate?.didReceiveAPIResult(jsonResult)
        println("Done with JSON response")

    })
    task.resume()
}