So far I have this:
do{
let (responseString, _) = try await URLSession.shared.data(for: request)
if let decodedResponse = try? JSONDecoder().decode([Quote].self, from: responseString){
quotes = decodedResponse
}
}catch{
print("data not valid")
}
which instantly converts the json string to object array (quotes) but this is not what I need.
I need to parse each item and then add it to the object array like this:
quotes.append(Quote(quote_id: id, quote: qqq, author: aut, series: srs))
how to do that?
The only similar question I've found is
String convert to Json Array and then parse value in swift iOS?
but he doesn't have a json array but json object so the answers there aren't helping
Related
I am trying to decode an api response that just responds with an array. All the examples I see for using responseDecodable are a dictionary with a data key or something. But when I just pass [Movie].self into as the decoder I get:
failure(Alamofire.AFError.responseSerializationFailed(reason: Alamofire.AFError.ResponseSerializationFailureReason.decodingFailed(error: Swift.DecodingError.keyNotFound(CodingKeys(stringValue: "name", intValue: nil), Swift.DecodingError.Context(codingPath: responseDecodable
I'm assuming I'm not doing this right, looking for some help
GET /request
Response:
[{"id": 1, "name": "test"}]
struct Movie: Codable, Hashable {
let id: Int
let name: String
}
AF.request("http://localhost/request", parameters: parameters)
.responseDecodable(of: [Movie].self) { response in
debugPrint(response)
}
You will need to first assign a variable to accept the JSON data. From there, you can display the result. To illustrate:
AF.request("http://localhost/request", parameters: parameters)
.responseDecodable(of: [Movie].self) { response in
let myresult = try? JSON(data: response.data!)
then print it:
debugPrint(myresult)
If your JSON data is sound, then you should have no problem receiving the data. If your JSON is nested, then, you can drill-down into it:
let myresult = try? JSON(data: response.data!)
let resultArray = myresult!["result"]
and so on.
As for the "KeyNotFound" error ... It's because of what you said ... it's looking for a dictionary key/value pair. That should be resolved once you try the above example. Also, it's good practice to place your "method" in your AF request. :)
According to the error, your JSON didn't return a name value, so check that's it's actually supposed to be that key, or mark the value as optional if it's not always returned. let name: String?
Im stuck trying to model a JSON array which has no property name into my swift project with the goal of parsing the data and using it in my app. I know how to do this when there is a NAME for the array but I don't know how to make swift and this lackluster JSON understand each other. The path to the first "Company" in the JSON is "0.Company". The error I get is "Value of type 'WorkData' has no member '0'"
Im including pictures of my full project so it is easier to understand the structure of the code and what im trying to do. Please look at the picture for a clearer understanding I apologize if Im not explaining it well i'm new to programming.
import Foundation
class WorkData: Codable {
let WorkData: [WorkData]
let Company: String
let worklogDate: String
let issue: String
}
func parseData(jsonDataInput: Data) {
let decoder = JSONDecoder() // an object that decodes JSON data
do {
let decodedData = try decoder.decode(WorkData.self, from: jsonDataInput)
let Company = decodedData.0.Company
let worklogDate = decodedData.0.worklogDate
let issue = decodedData.0.issue
} catch {
print (error)
}
}
}
json
Trying to model JSON in Swift
Parsing JSON
You cannot start JSON with an array because JSON itself is an object {}
See example below:
{
"WorkData" : [
{"Company" : ""},
{"Company" : ""},
{"Company" : ""}
]
}
let decodedData = try decoder.decode(LocalizationsResponse.self, from: jsonDataInput)
decodedData will be an array
I'm attempting to print out a string array without escaped single quotes. For some reason, Swift is injecting escaped single quotes when printing my array. This has a trickle down problem when I use the array to build JSON. JSON ends up not being able to parse due to the escaped single quotes.
I thought this was a problem with my code, but I've distilled this down to a single usecase that should be straightforward.
let names = ["Tommy 'Tiny' Lister", "Tom Hanks"]
print(names)
The output is:
["Tommy \'Tiny\' Lister", "Tom Hanks"]
Note: I did not include escaped single quotes in my names array.
How do I prevent this from happening?
Here is the what I'm doing later in code to create JSON. For purposes of brevity, this is a really dumbed down version of what I'm doing:
var names = ["Tommy Tiny Lister", "Tom Hanks"]
var jsonString = """
{"names": \(names)}
"""
var jsonData = jsonString.data(using: .utf8)
if let json = try? JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: jsonData!) as? [String: Any] {
let jsonData = try! JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: json, options: .prettyPrinted)
let string = String(data: jsonData, encoding: .utf8)
print(string!)
}
What you are doing is using Swift arrays' description to generate JSON:
var jsonString = """
{"names": \(names)}
""" // your JSON will contain name.description
You are relying on the fact that the implementation of description just so happens to result in the same format as JSON most of the time. As you can see, when there are ' in the array elements, the description is not valid JSON.
Basically, you should not rely on the description to generate JSON. Instead, you should use Codable to generate JSON data from a Swift array.
For the JSON you want to produce:
{
"names": ["Tommy 'Tiny' Lister", "Tom Hanks"]
}
You can use a struct like this:
struct Names : Codable {
let names: [String]
}
And then you can produce JSON Data like this:
let encoder = JSONEncoder()
do {
let obj = Names(names: ["Tommy 'Tiny' Lister", "Tom Hanks"])
let data = try encoder.encode(obj)
} catch { ... }
I have recieved a response object (res) in swift from REST API. It is of type. __NSArrayM. It contains a JSON format string which I want to parse.
{ JsonResult = "[ { \"IsAuth\":\"true\" } ]"; }
It is a long JSON String and I have shortened it for simplicity.
To parse a json, the object needs to be of type Dictionary but I can't cast the object of type __NSArrayM into it.
I searched a lot but can't figure out anyway to read this JSON string.
Additional: Whichever object I try to cast the response object. I get the error -
Could not cast value of type '__NSArrayM' (0x107e86c30) to 'NSData' (0x107e86168) or whichever data type I cast into.
Let's do this step by step.
You say you have an object named "res" which is of type __NSArrayM and which contains this thing:
{ JsonResult = "[ { \"IsAuth\":\"true\" } ]"; }
It means that you already have converted the JSON to an object, namely an NSArray.
In this array that we don't see, this thing you're showing us is a dictionary (that we will name "dict") with its value being a String which itself represents another JSON object.
Let's get the value using the key:
if let value = dict["JsonResult"] as? String {
print(value)
}
Now "value" is supposed to be "[ { \"IsAuth\":\"true\" } ]".
This is a String which represents JSON. To decode the JSON, we first have to make the string into data then we can decode:
if let data = value.data(using: .utf8) {
if let content = try? JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data, options: []),
let array = content as? [[String: Any]]
{
print(array)
}
}
The string to convert:
[{"description": "Hi","id":2,"img":"hi.png"},{"description": "pet","id":10,"img":"pet.png"},{"description": "Hello! :D","id":12,"img":"hello.png"}]
The code to convert the string:
var json = JSON(stringLiteral: stringJSON)
The string is converted to JSON and when I try to count how many blocks are inside this JSON (expected answer = 3), I get 0.
print(json.count)
Console Output: 0
What am I missing? Help is very appreciated.
Actually, there was a built-in function in SwifyJSON called parse
/**
Create a JSON from JSON string
- parameter string: Normal json string like '{"a":"b"}'
- returns: The created JSON
*/
public static func parse(string:String) -> JSON {
return string.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)
.flatMap({JSON(data: $0)}) ?? JSON(NSNull())
}
Note that
var json = JSON.parse(stringJSON)
its now changed to
var json = JSON.init(parseJSON:stringJSON)
I fix it on this way.
I will use the variable "string" as the variable what contains the JSON.
1.
encode the sting with NSData like this
var encodedString : NSData = (string as NSString).dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!
un-encode the string encoded (this may be sound a little bit weird hehehe):
var finalJSON = JSON(data: encodedString)
Then you can do whatever you like with this JSON.
Like get the number of sections in it (this was the real question) with
finalJSON.count or print(finalJSON[0]) or whatever you like to do.
There is a built-in parser in SwiftyJSON:
let json = JSON.init(parseJSON: responseString)
Don't forget to import SwiftyJSON!
I'm using as follows:
let yourString = NSMutableString()
let dataToConvert = yourString.data(using: String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue)
let json = JSON(data: dataToConvert!)
print("\nYour string: " + String(describing: json))
Swift4
let json = string.data(using: String.Encoding.utf8).flatMap({try? JSON(data: $0)}) ?? JSON(NSNull())