How do I run Asynchronous callbacks in Playground

Question

Many Cocoa and CocoaTouch methods have completion callbacks implemented as blocks in Objective-C and Closures in Swift. However, when trying these out in Playground, the co

Answer 1

Swift 4, Xcode 9.0

import Foundation
import PlaygroundSupport

PlaygroundPage.current.needsIndefiniteExecution = true

let url = URL(string: "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1")!

let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: url) { (data, response, error) in
    guard error == nil else {
        print(error?.localizedDescription ?? "")
        return
    }

    if let data = data, let contents = String(data: data, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8) {
        print(contents)
    }
}
task.resume()