Nested NSDictionary from JSON in Xcode - ios

Question

Hi I been having huge issues grabbing some data out of this for me quite complex JSON structure.
The problem is that the JSON structure contains some nesting that i can't find out how to handle.
Example of the JSON i get from the database:
{
"hits": {
"totalHits": 3202,
"hits": [{
"id": "70132eb7-2834-458c-900a-da951c95a506",
"versions": [{
"id": 7,
"properties": {
"Status": [
"usable"
],
"created": [
"2015-10-27T14:31:13Z"
],
"Text": [
"Snabbtåg, Järnväg, Höghastighetsjärnväg, "
],
"ConceptDefinitionLong": [
"Enligt Trafikverket saknas en helt entydig och vedertagen definition av höghastigheteståg."
],
"contenttype": [
"Concept"
],
"ConceptProposalUser": [
"[object Object]"
],
"ConceptType": [
"object"
],
"Name": [
"Höghastighetståg"
],
"ConceptNote": null,
"ConceptSeeAlso": null,
"Note": null,
"ConceptName": [
"Höghastighetståg"
],
"updated": [
"2016-02-01T11:37:30Z"
],
"ConceptDefinitionShort": [
"Snabbtåg, Järnväg, Höghastighetsjärnväg, Kollektivtrafik"
],
"ConceptStatus": [
"usable"
]
}
}],
"noVersions": 1
}, {
"id": "4224ccfb-1f0a-9491-727f-f6ab0fc2c951",
"versions": [{
"id": 2,
"properties": {
"Status": [
"usable"
],
"created": [
"2016-01-25T12:03:33Z"
],
"Text": [
"Rosenlundsbadet öppnade 1968 och äventyrsbadet 1991."
],
"ConceptDefinitionLong": [
"Rosenlundsbadet är en badanläggning i Jönköping. "
],
"contenttype": [
"Concept"
],
"ConceptProposalUser": null,
"ConceptType": [
"organisation"
],
"Name": [
"Rosenlundsbadet"
],
"ConceptNote": null,
"ConceptSeeAlso": null,
"Note": null,
"ConceptName": [
"Rosenlundsbadet"
],
"updated": [
"2016-01-25T12:03:38Z"
],
"ConceptDefinitionShort": [
"Simning, Simhopp, Äventyrsbad"
],
"ConceptStatus": [
"usable"
]
}
}],
"noVersions": 1
}
...
My job is to get all the "Name"s from all posts where the "Status" is set to "usable". And store them in my app. But I'm having a hard time getting that info . Im new to JSON and can't handle the structure. This is what i got so far after hours of googling:
NSData *allCoursesData = [[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:
[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://www.pumba.se/example.json"]];
NSError *error;
NSMutableDictionary *JSONdictionary = [NSJSONSerialization
JSONObjectWithData:allCoursesData
options:kNilOptions
error:&error];
if( error )
{
NSLog(#"%#", [error localizedDescription]);
}
else {
NSArray* entries = [JSONdictionary valueForKeyPath:#"hits.hits"];
NSDictionary *firstItem = [entries objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *id1 = [firstItem objectForKey:#"id"];
NSLog(#"ID: ");
NSLog(id1);
}}
From that code I'm able to get the ID from the first item. But I don't seem to be able to fetch the "name" or check if they are "usable". Have been working with this and trying to solve this for hours but this is above my leauge. I guess the reason to why I can't solve it is cause the data is nested in hits.hits etc. Yet I have to solve this to be able to finish my app. I would be very grateful for some help.
Here is a longer version of the JSON database. The full version contains over 3000 items:
http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/#http://www.pumba.se/example.json

Answer 1

You can use the following code:
NSData *allCoursesData = [[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:
[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://www.pumba.se/example.json"]];
NSError *error;
NSMutableDictionary *JSONdictionary = [NSJSONSerialization
JSONObjectWithData:allCoursesData
options:kNilOptions
error:&error];
if( error )
{
NSLog(#"%#", [error localizedDescription]);
}
else {
NSMutableArray *allNames = [NSMutableArray array];
NSArray* entries = [JSONdictionary valueForKeyPath:#"hits.hits"];
for (NSDictionary *hit in entries) {
NSArray *versions = hit[#"versions"];
for (NSDictionary *version in versions) {
NSDictionary *properties = version[#"properties"];
NSString *status = [properties[#"Status"] firstObject];
NSString *name = [properties[#"Name"] firstObject];
if ([status isEqualToString:#"usable"]) {
[allNames addObject:name];
}
}
}
NSLog(#"All names: %#", allNames);
}}