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I am trying to load HTML content from this website onto a Webview. But I am getting the following error:

Cannot convert value of type 'NSString?' to expected argument type 'String'

Here is my code:

override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() let webUrl = NSURL(string: "http://www.stackoverflow.com/users/5438240/naishta") let webContent = NSURLSession.sharedSession().dataTaskWithURL(webUrl!){ (data,response,error) in if error == nil{ let readableForm = NSString(data: data!, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding) print(readableForm) self.displayWeb.loadHTMLString(readableForm, baseURL: nil) //here is where the error is thrown } } webContent.resume() }
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You should use Swift native type String and use guard to make sure data it is not nil as follow:

guard let data = data where error == nil, readableForm = String(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding) else { return } print(readableForm) self.displayWeb.loadHTMLString(readableForm, baseURL: nil)
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Was able to resolve myself with the change as below, needed a "as! String" conversion

 self.displayWeb.loadHTMLString(readableForm as! String, baseURL: nil)
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The actual way is 

var a:NSString = "this is" let c = String(a)
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@EricAya Can you show me a Apple Doc which tells developer to use without __.init() ? Just to make it a fact.

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