Parsing and Storing JSON in Swift

Question

cI'm trying to, with Swift 2 and Alamofire, make a request to an API, and then store the data so that I can use it in another function.

For example, this is my code below, and I'm trying to figure out how to assign it to a variable so that I can use it later in the file. I've tried Google'ing and trying a bunch of options and I haven't got anywhere in the past 3 hours.

func getToken() {
    Alamofire.request(.GET, "https://somesite.com/ping").responseJSON { response in
        print(response)
    }
}

So as we can see, we have the response, but could we assign the contents of it to a variable so we can use it in a function such as pryResponse?

func pryResponse() {
    print(response)
}

Something similar to that, but an actual variable.

Answer 1

Try this.. The syntax changed a bit with the latest release.

Alamofire.request(.GET, "https://livewx.tv/ping").responseJSON(){
                (_, json, result) in
                switch result {

                case .Success:
                    let json = result.value!
                    let stuff = json["results"] as! [[String: AnyObject]]
                    //stuff now holds a dictionary with the json
                case .Failure(_,  _):
                    //Error
                }
            }