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Jamie Baker
Jamie Baker
5,703 Points
Posted by Jamie Baker
Jamie Baker
5,703 Points

Why can I not see the contents of my JSON object?

Hi, this is for the stormy App. This is my code, and as you can see at the end I'm trying to print my Dictionary object. It's not appearing in the console and when I try and print it in a playground, it doesn't show up either. The playground does, however, output my NSURLSession and SessionDowloadTasks objects with an identifier, which I guess means the network call was successful? but then don't really get why I can't see the Json object.

Help much appreciated!

let baseURL = NSURL(string:"https://api.forecast.io/forecast/ccc2f537f3cebbe7049f67424695c2e7/") let forecastURL = NSURL(string: "37.8267,-122.423", relativeToURL: baseURL) let sharedSession = NSURLSession.sharedSession() let downloadTask: NSURLSessionDownloadTask = sharedSession.downloadTaskWithURL(forecastURL!, completionHandler: { (location: NSURL!, response: NSURLResponse!, error: NSError!) -> Void in if (error == nil) { let dataObject = NSData(contentsOfURL: location) let weatherDic: NSDictionary = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(dataObject!, options: nil, error: nil) as! NSDictionary! println(weatherDic) }

})

Jamie Baker
Jamie Baker
5,703 Points
Jamie Baker
Jamie Baker
5,703 Points

this is the result in the playground output column:

<__NSCFLocalDownloadTask: 0x7fd3fa709810>{ taskIdentifier: 1 } { suspended }

1 Answer

agreatdaytocode
agreatdaytocode
24,757 Points

Hello Jamie,

Have you compared your code to the example code provided in the course?

Here is how I have mind setup. 

func getCurrentWeatherData() -> Void {

        userLocation = "\(userLatitude),\(userLongitude)"

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

        //39.1267,-77.714 Purcellville VA (EAST COAST USA)
        //72.371224,-41.382676 GreenLand (Cold Place!)
        //\(userLocation) (YOUR LOCATION!)

        //println(userLocation)

        let sharedSession = NSURLSession.sharedSession()

        let downloadTask: NSURLSessionDownloadTask = sharedSession.downloadTaskWithURL(forecastURL!, completionHandler: { (location: NSURL!, response: NSURLResponse!, error: NSError!) -> Void in