Swift - Write Image from URL to Local File

Question

I\'ve been learning swift rather quickly, and I\'m trying to develop an OS X application that downloads images.

I\'ve been able to parse the JSON I\'m looking for into a

Answer 1

The following code would write a UIImage in the Application Documents directory under the filename 'filename.jpg'

var image = ....  // However you create/get a UIImage
let documentsPath = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true)[0] as String
let destinationPath = documentsPath.stringByAppendingPathComponent("filename.jpg")
UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image,1.0).writeToFile(destinationPath, atomically: true)