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

Posted by Jose Castro
Jose Castro
1,953 Points

challenge 2

I'm trying to understand treehouseBaseURL

urls.swift 
import Foundation

let courseID = 25

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

let courseURL = NSURL(string: \(courseID), relativeToUrl: treehouseBaseURL)

1 Answer

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

you are on the right track. the base URL is https://api.teamtreehouse.com/

to obtain info on a course, you use a URL that looks like this: https://api.teamtreehouse.com/course/someCourseID where some courseID is an actual courseID

so the base URL is https://api.teamtreehouse.com/ and the full URL needs to look like https://api.teamtreehouse.com/course/someCourseID. we can construct the full course URL using the NSURL(string: relativeToURL:)method.

we have a course ID variable with a value of 25. we can interpolate that onto the end of the string "course/" to make the second half of the url. we can pass the baseURL in as the relativeToURL argument to build the complete URL that looks like https://api.teamtreehouse.com/course/25 

import Foundation

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