iOS programming, fetching JSON data - ios

Question

I have added to my project the SwiftyJSON.swift file and I am trying to get some data from the web. Now my project runs but only until the line where I am trying to get the array from json in a dictionary. I cannot understand where the problem is, but I am guessing it has to be something very stupid as I am just in the beginning with learning swift.
I am just trying to print in the console the name of all the movies from that url and after I manage to achieve this performance, I will try to get the summary of the movie as well and then put them in a TableView.
import UIKit
class FirstViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
//grab the status code and check if the transfer was successful == 200
let requestURL: NSURL = NSURL(string: "https://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/topmovies/limit=50/json")!
let urlRequest: NSMutableURLRequest = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: requestURL)
let session = NSURLSession.sharedSession()
let task = session.dataTaskWithRequest(urlRequest) {
(data, response, error) -> Void in
let httpResponse = response as! NSHTTPURLResponse
let statusCode = httpResponse.statusCode
if (statusCode == 200) {
//sort through the stations key and cast the data into an array of dictionaries
do{
let json = try NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data!, options:.AllowFragments)
print("bbbbb")
// From here on, it doesn't print anything anymore
if let movies = json["entry"] as? [[String: AnyObject]] {
print(movies)
print("test")
for movie in movies {
if let name = movie["name"] as? String {
print("mmmm")
print("%# (Built %#)",name)
}
}
}
}catch {
print("Error with Json: \(error)")
}
}
}
task.resume()

Answer 1

entry is an json array, Use .array
if let movies = json["entry"].array {
for movie in movies {
// Do stuff
}
}
Also a general tip. Do not cast the values e.g.
movie["something"] as? String
Rather use the built in features:
movie["something"].string
Update
Looking closer on your code I see that you are acctually not using SwiftyJSON.swift at all.
To use Swifty you parse the json text like this and get a JSON object:
let jsonObj = JSON(data: yourData) // data is a NSData
Please have another look at the documentation:
https://github.com/SwiftyJSON/SwiftyJSON
I think you are reading the section "Why is the typical JSON handling in Swift NOT good?". That section explains the native and "bad" way of managing json in Swift, the real documentation is further down.