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iOS Build a Weather App with Swift (Retired) Pulling Data From the Web JavaScript Object Notation

Posted by Dave Fontenot
Dave Fontenot
8,170 Points

Updated way to print JSON

Clicking the white button on forecastURL wasn't showing me anything other than the forecastURL object, no data.

When I converted the data to a String, the JSON printed out:

let string1 = NSString(data: weatherData!, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)
println(string1!)

4 Answers

Micah Fullerton
Micah Fullerton
1,850 Points
Micah Fullerton
Micah Fullerton
1,850 Points

Add the code you're working with so we can better answer your question.

gooolgi
gooolgi
2,032 Points
gooolgi
gooolgi
2,032 Points

The white button didn't show anything to me when I click it as well, instead the following statement

<p>let forecastURL = NSURL(string: "22.2341,-110.2223145", relativeToURL: baseURL)"</p>

<p>Some https://api.forecast.io/forecast/apiKey/22.2341,-110.2223145</p>

But if you hover your mouse next to the link and click on the eye-looking button, another window pops out with all the JSON data

Joshua Peterson
Joshua Peterson
17,515 Points
Joshua Peterson
Joshua Peterson
17,515 Points

This should sort out the problem!

let apiKey = "INSERT_YOUR_API_KEY"


let baseURL = NSURL(string: "https://api.forecast.io/forecast/\(apiKey)/")
let forecastURL = NSURL(string: "37.8267,-122.423", relativeToURL: baseURL)
forecastURL!
CHRISTOPHER RUNCO
CHRISTOPHER RUNCO
2,165 Points
CHRISTOPHER RUNCO
CHRISTOPHER RUNCO
2,165 Points

I couldn't get any of these to work so I just copied the whole url and pasted it into a safari address bar and up comes all the JSON data.

https://api.forecast.io/forecast/yourapicodegoeshere/yourlongandlatgoeshere/