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iOS Build a Weather App with Swift (Retired) Pulling Data From the Web Making a Network Call

Posted by Nick Peets
Nick Peets
3,627 Points

Compiler Error: Value of optional type 'NSURL?' not unwrapped; did you mean to use '!' or '?'?

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {


    private let apiKey = "a763da8a149b906e8ba708025a00fd13"


    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        let baseURL = NSURL(string: "https://api.forecast.io/forecast/\(apiKey)/")
        let forcastURL = NSURL(string: "45.488746,-122.749306", relativeToURL: baseURL)

        let weatherData = NSData.dataWithContentsOfURL(forcastURL, options: nil, error: nil)
        println(weatherData)

    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
    }


}

Any help would be appreciated.

2 Answers

Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers
5,280 Points
Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers
5,280 Points 
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        let baseURL = NSURL(string: "https://api.forecast.io/forecast/\(apiKey)/")!
        var forcastURL = NSURL(string: "45.488746,-122.749306", relativeToURL: baseURL)!

        var weatherData = NSData(contentsOfURL: forcastURL)
        println(weatherData)

    }

I added in the "!" after setting the NSURL, then swapped out the dataWithContentsOfURL (Which looks to not be in XCode any more) with NSData(contentsOfURL: and it worked.

oseijenkins
oseijenkins
12,912 Points

This was a HUGE help! I was wondering why xcode wasn't autocompleting the code string for me lol.

Thanks!

Aliya Petranik
Aliya Petranik
875 Points
Aliya Petranik
Aliya Petranik
875 Points

This works. Thanks!