Story.swift

//
//  Story.swift
//  MashItUp
//
//  Created by Jesse Shawl on 5/5/15.
//  Copyright (c) 2015 Jesse Shawl. All rights reserved.
//

import UIKit

class Story: NSObject {
    let identifier: String?
    let title: String?
    let author: String?
    let postDate: NSDate?
    let link: NSURL?
    let excerpt: String?
    let channel: String?
    init(dictionary:[String:AnyObject]){
        identifier = dictionary["_id"] as? String
        title = dictionary["title"] as? String
        author = dictionary["author"] as? String
        postDate = NSDate()
        link = NSURL(string: dictionary["link"] as String)
        excerpt = dictionary["excerpt"] as? NSString
        channel = dictionary["channel"] as? NSString
    }
}

class Provider {
    func getAllStories(){
        let session = NSURLSession.sharedSession()
        let url = NSURL(string:"http://mashable.com/stories.json")!
        let task = session.dataTaskWithURL(url) { (data, response, error) in
            var error:NSError? = nil
            let object = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data, options: NSJSONReadingOptions(0), error: &error) as [String:AnyObject]
            self.createStories( object )
        }
        task.resume()
    }
    func createStories( dictionary:[String:AnyObject] ) {
        if let newStories = dictionary["new"] as? [[String:AnyObject]]{
            for story in newStories{
                let story = Story( dictionary: story )
            }
        }
    }
}