Example JSON

// Example JSON

{
  "type": "articles",
  "id": "1",
  "attributes": {
    "title": "Rails is Omakase"
  },
  "relationships": {
    "author": {
      "links": {
        "self": "http://example.com/articles/1/relationships/author",
        "related": "http://example.com/articles/1/author"
      },
      "data": { "type": "people", "id": "9" }
    }
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "http://example.com/articles/1"
  }
}

Example JSON Swift

let json = JSON(data: data)
    if let relatedValue = json["relationships"]["author"]["link"].related {
      println("SwiftyJSON: \(relatedValue)")
    }

JSON Parsing Traditional

// Traditional Parsing

   func requestData(link : String)
    {
        do  {
            
            let data = try String(contentsOfURL: NSURL(string: link)!, encoding: NSASCIIStringEncoding)
            
            if let properData = data.dataUsingEncoding(NSASCIIStringEncoding, allowLossyConversion: true)  {
                
                let json : AnyObject? = try NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(properData, options: [])
                
                self.getValues(json)
            }
        }
        catch {
        }
    }
    
    func getValues( object : AnyObject?)
    {
        if let json = object, dataDictionary = json["data"] as? Dictionary<String, String>, type = dataDictionary["data"], id = dataDictionary["id"] {
            
            // JSON
            
            print("\(type) || \(id)")
           
        } else {
            
        }
    }