Downloading and parsing json in swift

Question

I\'m trying to get the JSON from a website and parse it before putting it inside of an iOS view.

Here\'s my code;

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Answer 1

The answer of @david72 worked perfectly for me. So here's the same in Swift 3 and URLSession for your convenience. Also with some added error printing for easier debugging.

func getHttpData(urlAddress : String)
{
    // Asynchronous Http call to your api url, using NSURLSession:
    guard let url = URL(string: urlAddress) else
    {
        print("Url conversion issue.")
        return
    }
    URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: url, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
        // Check if data was received successfully
        if error == nil && data != nil {
            do {
                // Convert NSData to Dictionary where keys are of type String, and values are of any type
                let json = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data!, options: JSONSerialization.ReadingOptions.mutableContainers) as! [String:AnyObject]
                print(json)
                // Access specific key with value of type String
                // let str = json["key"] as! String
            } catch {
                print(error)
                // Something went wrong
            }
        }
        else if error != nil
        {
            print(error)
        }
    }).resume()
}