NetworkPlayground.swift

//: Playground - noun: a place where people can play

import UIKit
import XCPlayground
XCPlaygroundPage.currentPage.needsIndefiniteExecution = true

let url = NSURL(string: "http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users/3")
let session = NSURLSession.sharedSession()

let dataTask = session.dataTaskWithURL(url!, completionHandler: { (data: NSData?, response: NSURLResponse?, error: NSError?) -> Void in
    let response = response as! NSHTTPURLResponse

    switch response.statusCode {
    case 200:
        print("------------")
        print(response)
        print("------------")
        print(NSString(data: data!, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding))
        print("------------")
    case 400..<500:
        print("Something went wrong, error code: \(response.statusCode)")
    default:
        print("Other code: \(response.statusCode)")
    }

    XCPlaygroundPage.currentPage.finishExecution()
})
dataTask.resume()