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iOS Build a Weather App with Swift (Retired) Data Modeling With Structures Cleaning Up Our Date

Keith Michelson
Keith Michelson
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Posted by Keith Michelson
Keith Michelson
3,395 Points

How could you print other JSON properties outside of Currently?

Say I wanted to print the properties of a certain time? Or how do you drill down deeper in nested items? Thanks.

2 Answers

Rhian Thomas
Rhian Thomas
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Rhian Thomas
Rhian Thomas
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I was wondering the same... I was able to get to the Hourly Data. But not as I had originally expected to.

Originally I tried to get the data for each hour by just doing the following weatherDictionary["hourly"]["data"][0]

But that did not work.

In the end, I had to get the hourly as an optional and then get the data as an optional downcast to an NSArray. Then I was able to access the individual hour data.

So assuming that you already have the weatherDictionary as an NSDictionary from the video, you can do the following:

if let hourlyWeatherArray = weatherDictionary["hourly"]?["data"] as? NSArray {
    println("First Hour")
    println(hourlyWeatherArray[0])
    println("Second Hour")
    println(hourlyWeatherArray[1])
}
Keith Michelson
Keith Michelson
3,395 Points
Keith Michelson
Keith Michelson
3,395 Points

Thanks for the reply, I will test that out!