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iOS Build a Weather App with Swift (Retired) Concurrency Using Our JSON Data

Posted by Emayciekay Mack
Emayciekay Mack
1,476 Points

Nil returned when using NSData(contentsOfURL : forecastURL!)

private let apiKey = "key"

let baseURL = NSURL(string: "https://api.forecast.io/forecast/\(apiKey)/")

let forecastURL = NSURL(string: "40.724245,-73.562374", relativeToURL: baseURL)


let weatherData = NSData(contentsOfURL: forecastURL!)

I'm completely lost. When I call forecastURL! in playground without NSData, I get the correct url Displayed.

However, using the NSData(contentsOfURL: forecastURL! ) to call weatherData returns a nil value.

2 Answers

Emayciekay Mack
Emayciekay Mack
1,476 Points
Emayciekay Mack
Emayciekay Mack
1,476 Points

Waited 1hr and magically it worked.

David Batista da Silva
David Batista da Silva
1,479 Points
David Batista da Silva
David Batista da Silva
1,479 Points

I am having the same problem. When I put the URL in the browser works, but in xcode always returns NIL.

I am testing since yesterday.