added request builder

Signed-off-by: Matt Bruce <mbrucedogs@gmail.com>

EmployeeDirectory/Classes/RequestBuilder.swift

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+//
+//  RequestBuilder.swift
+//  EmployeeDirectory
+//
+//  Created by Matt Bruce on 1/21/25.
+//
+
+import Foundation
+
+/// Enum representing HTTP methods
+public enum HTTPMethod: String {
+    case get = "GET"
+    case post = "POST"
+    case put = "PUT"
+    case delete = "DELETE"
+    case patch = "PATCH"
+    case head = "HEAD"
+    case options = "OPTIONS"
+}
+
+/// A utility for constructing HTTP requests
+public struct RequestBuilder {
+    private var url: URL
+    private var method: HTTPMethod
+    private var headers: [String: String] = [:]
+    private var body: Data?
+
+    public init(url: URL, method: HTTPMethod = .get) {
+        self.url = url
+        self.method = method
+    }
+
+    /// Add a header to the request
+    @discardableResult
+    public mutating func addHeader(key: String, value: String) -> Self {
+        headers[key] = value
+        return self
+    }
+
+    /// Set the body of the request
+    @discardableResult
+    public mutating func setBody(_ data: Data?) -> Self {
+        body = data
+        return self
+    }
+
+    /// Build the `URLRequest`
+    public func build() -> URLRequest {
+        var request = URLRequest(url: url)
+        request.httpMethod = method.rawValue
+        request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
+        request.httpBody = body
+        return request
+    }
+}