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

Edwin Mhoy Silva Rifa
Edwin Mhoy Silva Rifa
2,631 Points
Posted by Edwin Mhoy Silva Rifa
Edwin Mhoy Silva Rifa
2,631 Points

don´t really know what to do??

At Treehouse we have our own API which can be accessed via a base URL that looks like: https://api.teamtreehouse.com/. Create a base URL named treehouseBaseURL using the NSURL class to retrieve user information from the Treehouse API. Note: This is purely an example and not a functional API.

urls.swift 
import Foundation

let courseID = 25

let treehouseBaseURL = "https://api.teamtreehouse.com/"

2 Answers

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

Task 1 states: ** Create a base URL named treehouseBaseURL using the NSURL class to retrieve user information from the Treehouse API**

so for task 1 you need to create a URL using the NSURL initializer and pass in the base URL:

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

task 2 states: ** Given the variable courseID, create an absolute URL, named courseURL, to retrieve information about a user's progress on a certain course. It should have a path that's relative to the treehouseBaseURL.**

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);
Edwin Mhoy Silva Rifa
Edwin Mhoy Silva Rifa
2,631 Points
Edwin Mhoy Silva Rifa
Edwin Mhoy Silva Rifa
2,631 Points

Thanks for the help, it helped a lot :)