src/httpGet.swift

// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor
// license agreements; and to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

**
 * Sample code using the experimental Swift 3 runtime
 * with links to KituraNet and GCD
 */

import KituraNet
import Dispatch
import Foundation
import SwiftyJSON

func main(args:[String:Any]) -> [String:Any] {

    // Force KituraNet call to run synchronously on a global queue
    var str = "No response"

    HTTP.get("https://httpbin.org/get") { response in
        do {
            str = try response!.readString()!
        } catch {
            print("Error \(error)")
        }
    }


    // Assume string is JSON
    print("Got string \(str)")
    var result:[String:Any]?

    // Convert to NSData
    let data = str.data(using: String.Encoding.utf8, allowLossyConversion: true)!

    // test SwiftyJSON
    let json = JSON(data: data)
    if let jsonUrl = json["url"].string {
        print("Got json url \(jsonUrl)")
    } else {
        print("JSON DID NOT PARSE")
    }

    // create result object to return

    do {

        result = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data, options: [])  as? [String:Any]      } catch {
            print("Error \(error)")
    }

    // return, which should be a dictionary
    print("Result is \(result!)")
    return result!
}