How can I read JSON file from disk and store to array in Swift

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Published on 2014-06-07T02:10:11Z Indexed on 2014/06/07 3:26 UTC
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I want to read a file from Disk in a swift file. It can be a relative or direct path, that doesn't matter. How can I do that?

I've been playing with something like this

let classesData = NSData .dataWithContentsOfMappedFile("path/to/classes.json");

And it finds the file (i.e. doesn't return nil) but I don't know how to manipulate and convert to JSON, the data returned. It isn't in a string format and String() isn't working on it.

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