parse nested JSON attributes in swift - ios

Question

Having trouble which is probably so minor but my searches turn up nothing. I have a json model as follows :
//quick syntax to give you an idea of the model
{user:
{"name": "",
"password": "",
"medium" : {
{"title":"",
{"description":""}}}
I'm getting the above data model from a GET request to user and it returns all the info above but when i try to parse the "medium" information such as "title" & "description" I'm having no luck. I get these responses in Xcode that say
"Value of object 'AnyObject' not unwrapped, did you mean to use ! or ?"
and then when i click on the round red Xcode message to fix it it places !s and ?s everywhere but the error remains. Here is my parse method which worked perfectly fine when I was parsing only from the "medium". Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
a portion of the parse method where i get the same error for each attribute:
all lines with the same error indicated by *
// Parse JSON data
let jsonMedium = jsonResult?["user"] as! [AnyObject] //media where user is
for jsonMedia in jsonMedium {
let media = Media()
*media.title = jsonMedia["medium"]["title"] as! String
*media.description = jsonMedia["medium"]["description"] as! String
*media.category = jsonMedia["medium"]["category"] as! String
*media.image = jsonMedia["medium"]["image"] as! String
*if let IDer = jsonMedia["medium"]["id"] as? Int{
var stringIder = String(IDer)
media.identifierString = stringIder
}
Still no luck with anything. I don't understand why it works with regular JSON but Xcode won't accept anything when I try to obtain nested. All of your help has been appreciated. In the meantime here's the full method if it helps any further
func parseJsonData(data: NSData) -> [Media] {
var medium = [Media]()
do {
let jsonResult = try NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data,
options: NSJSONReadingOptions.MutableContainers) as? NSDictionary
// Parse JSON data
let jsonMedium = jsonResult?["media"] as! [AnyObject]
for jsonMedia in jsonMedium {
let media = Media()
media.title = jsonMedia["medium"]["title"] as! String
media.description = jsonMedia["medium"]["description"] as! String
media.category = jsonMedia["medium"]["category"] as! String
media.image = jsonMedia["medium"]["image"] as! String
if let IDer = jsonMedia["medium"]["id"] as? Int{
var stringIder = String(IDer)
media.identifierString = stringIder
}
medium.append(media)
}
} catch {
print(error)
}
return medium
}

Answer 1

let json = [
"user" : [
"name" : "My Name",
"password" : "My Password",
"medium" : [
"title" : "My Title",
"description" : "My Description"
]
]
]
if let userJson = json["user"] as? [String : AnyObject] {
if let name = userJson["name"] as? String {
print("name: \(name)")
}
if let password = userJson["password"] as? String {
print("password: \(password)")
}
if let mediumJson = userJson["medium"] as? [String : AnyObject] {
if let title = mediumJson["title"] as? String {
print("title: \(title)")
}
if let description = mediumJson["description"] as? String {
print("description: \(description)")
}
}
}

Answer 2

Maybe it helps
let request : ASIFormDataRequest = ...your request
if request.responseString() != nil {
var jsonResponse : Dictionary<String, AnyObject>?
do{
jsonResponse = try NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(request.responseData(), options: NSJSONReadingOptions.AllowFragments) as? Dictionary<String, AnyObject>
} catch _ {
//some error
}
}

Answer 3

FIXED IT! Took an entire day of deep thought and google/youtube/stack/brainstorming and your help but it was one changed line that got the whole thing going
// Parse JSON data
let jsonMedium = jsonResult?["user"]!["medium"] as? [AnyObject]
for jsonMedia in jsonMedium! {
let media = Media()
media.title = jsonMedia["title"] as! String
media.description = jsonMedia["description"] as! String
instead of :
let jsonMedium = jsonResult?["user"] as! [AnyObject] //media where user is
for jsonMedia in jsonMedium {
let media = Media()
*media.title = jsonMedia["medium"]["title"] as! String
*media.description = jsonMedia["medium"]["description"] as! String