JSON Parsing & Optionals in Swift 3 - ios

Question

So i recently updated to Swift 3/XCode 8 and some of my code went hay-wire. I've read that some syntax changes have been made but I can't seem get this one right.
I make a request to Twitter and get JSON back:
func forLoadStats(completion: (AnyObject?, NSError?) -> Void)
{
var clientError: NSError?
let idString = api.getUserID()
let client = TWTRAPIClient()
let request = client.urlRequest(withMethod: "GET", url: "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json", parameters: ["user_id" : 27446437], error: &clientError)
client.sendTwitterRequest(request)
{ (response, data, connectionError) in
if (connectionError == nil)
{
do {
if let json: Any = try? JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data!, options: .allowFragments) as? [AnyObject]
{
if let json = json, let immage = json?["profile_image_url_https"] as? String
{
//Make ProfilePic edges round
self.profPic.layer.cornerRadius = 42
self.profPic.clipsToBounds = true
//let immage = image["profile_image_url_https"] as String
let _vImageUrl = immage.replacingOccurrences(of: "_normal", with: "")
let urlProfilePic = NSURL(string: _vImageUrl)
let urlPP = NSData(contentsOf: urlProfilePic! as URL)
self.profPic.image = UIImage(data: urlPP! as Data)
let ScrName = json["screen_name"] as! String
self.scrNameLabel.text = "#\(ScrName)"
//Populate Followers Label.text
let flwrVar = json["followers_count"] as! Int
self.followerLbl.text = "\(flwrVar)"
//Populate Following Label.text
let flwngVar = json["friends_count"] as! Int
self.followingLbl.text = "\(flwngVar)"
//Populate Bio
let bio = json["description"] as! String
self.bioLabel.text = "\(bio)"
//created at date
let accountAge = json["created_at"] as! String
self.createdLbl.text = "\(accountAge)"
let tweetCount = json["statuses_count"] as! Int
self.tweetCount.text = "\(tweetCount)"
let likes = json["favourites_count"] as! Int
self.likesCount.text = "\(likes)"
let lists = json["listed_count"] as! Int
self.listedCount.text = "\(lists)"
}
}
}
catch let error
{
print(error)
}
}
}
}
I get an error on the second "If let" statement that says: "initializer for conditional binding must have optional type not 'Any.
Can someone explain why this is?

Answer 1

Your JSON is obviously a dictionary, a JSON dictionary in Swift 3 is [String:Any]
You caused the error by the silly Any annotation (which is supposed to be Any? but is practically nonsensical) because it confuses the compiler.
If you use a do block, try without question mark but use optional binding:
...
if let json = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data!, options: .allowFragments) as? [String:Any] {
if let immage = json["profile_image_url_https"] as? String { ...

Answer 2

There are a couple of problems with the syntax. [AnyObject] will not work to use reference items such as json["profile_image_url_https"]. also, you are redeclaring json through let json = json, which makes it a non option in your let immage = json?["profile_image_url_https"] call, so that becomes a problem. This structure does not have any compiler errors
if let json = try? JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data!, options: .allowFragments) as? [String:Any]
{
if let json = json, let immage = json["profile_image_url_https"] as? String
{
}
}
This does not have any compiler errors.