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iOS Build a Weather App with Swift (Retired) Pulling Data From the Web Creating a URL

Johannes Böhm
Johannes Böhm
5,957 Points
Posted by Johannes Böhm
Johannes Böhm
5,957 Points

cant get it working

Here is my Code: import Foundation

let courseID = 25

let treehouseBaseURL = NSURL(string: "https://api.teamtreehouse.com/")

let courseURL = NSURL(string:"courseID", relativeToURL: treehouseBaseURL)

I am aware the in the URL there is the "/course/" missing, but I dont know how to add this, or where. Also I think I need to convert the courseID = 25 into a string and I am not sure if a "25" will do the work.

Any hints? Would be great!

1 Answer

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

this challenge is pretty tough since it does not really give you much direction.

you need to use string interpolation to interpolate the course ID onto the end of the string.

since the full url used to access a course looks something like "https://api.teamtreehouse.com/course/COURSE_ID", you can see that /course/COURSE_ID is the part of the url thats going to be relative to the base URL, which is "https://api.teamtreehouse.com/".

so interpolate the value of courseID onto the end of the string "course/" and use that as the string parameter.

import Foundation

let courseID = 25
let treehouseBaseURL = NSURL(string:"https://api.teamtreehouse.com/");
let courseURL = NSURL(string: "course/\(courseID)", relativeToURL: treehouseBaseURL);