How do i get a text files content with swift and the dropbox API

I'm trying to download a regular .txt file from my dropbox account which i have linked with a token, but i dont know how to get the content. The only thing ive been able to find is this:

            // Download a file
            client.filesDownload(path: "/hello.txt").response { response, error in
                if let (metadata, data) = response {
                    println("Dowloaded file name: \(metadata.name)")
                    println("Downloaded file data: \(data)")
                } else {
                    println(error!)
                }

Which gives me nothing but a bunch of information about the file, but not its content.

The reason it prints the file size is that your data variable is of type Data. To print the actual contents, you'll have to convert it to a String first:

if let fileContents = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8) {
    print("Downloaded file data: \(fileContents)")
}

---

Swift 1

Based on your using println, you might be using an older version of Swift. In that case, the code should look like this:

if let fileContents = NSString(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding) {
    println("Downloaded file data: \(fileContents)")
}

---

The good thing about the Data type is that you can convert it straight, for example, JSON:

guard let json = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data, options: []) as? [String: Any] else {
    return
}
//... do something with json ...