Playing around with JSON and images

playground.swift

import SpriteKit

var str = "Hello, playground"

var dict : [String: String] = ["hi": "there"]

let productData = "{\"data\":[{\"url\": \"http://s2.img-b.com/build.com/imagebase/resized/330x320/moenimages/moen-tl182p-65.jpg\"}]}"

var error: NSError?

let jsonData = productData.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)

let dict1 =
    NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(jsonData, options: nil, error: &error) as NSDictionary

let data: NSArray = dict1["data"] as NSArray

let dict2 = data[0] as NSDictionary

let urlString = dict2["url"] as String

let url = NSURL.URLWithString(urlString)
var err: NSError?
var imageData :NSData = NSData.dataWithContentsOfURL(url,
    options: NSDataReadingOptions.DataReadingMappedIfSafe, error: &err)
var bgImage = UIImage(data:imageData)
let image = UIImage(data: imageData)