XML into JSON conversion in iOS - ios

Question

I need to convert XML response to JSON and sand to the json To javaScript code.
My XML response:
<cell>
<Result>True</Result>
<sguid>02291c402-2220-422b-b199-f92f22e56d2f</sguid>
</cell>
I am using XMLReader supporting file from this site:
XMLReader
I am using this code to convert XML to JSON :
+ (NSString*) XMLToJson:(CXMLDocument *)xmlDocument
{
NSError *error = nil;
NSArray *resultNodes = [xmlDocument nodesForXPath:#"//cell" error:&error];
if(error)
NSLog(#"%#",error.description);
CXMLNode *cellNode = [resultNodes objectAtIndex:0];
NSLog(#"%#",cellNode.XMLString);
NSError *parseError = nil;
NSDictionary *xmlDictionary = [XMLReader dictionaryForXMLString:cellNode.XMLString error:&parseError];
NSLog(#"%#", xmlDictionary);
//{print this.
// cell = {
// Result = {
// text = True;
// };
// sguid = {
// text = "0391c402-1120-460b-b199-f92fffe56d2f";
// };
// };
//}
NSData *jsonData = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:xmlDictionary
options:NSJSONWritingPrettyPrinted // Pass 0 if you don't care about the readability of the generated string
error:&error];
if(error)
NSLog(#"%#",error.description);
NSString *jsonString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:jsonData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(#"%#", jsonString);
return jsonString;
}
I got JSON response like this:
{
"cell" : {
"Result" : {
"text" : "True"
},
"sguid" : {
"text" : "0391c402-1120-460b-b199-f92fffe56d2f"
}
}
}
I need JSON response like this:
{
"cell": {
"Result": "True",
"sguid": "02291c402-2220-422b-b199-f92f22e56d2f"
}
}
Because then I send this json to javascript code I get that exception jquery mobile dont know parser this and throws an exception of syntax error.
I've seen programmers use this solution and is helping them but I still get the same result in this solution.
XML into JSON conversion in iOS
thanks

Answer 1

I just wrote a function for your problem, I tried it on with a couple of XMLs. Let me know if you find any issues
- (NSMutableDictionary *)extractXML:(NSMutableDictionary *)XMLDictionary
{
for (NSString *key in [XMLDictionary allKeys]) {
// get the current object for this key
id object = [XMLDictionary objectForKey:key];
if ([object isKindOfClass:[NSDictionary class]]) {
if ([[object allKeys] count] == 1 &&
[[[object allKeys] objectAtIndex:0] isEqualToString:#"text"] &&
![[object objectForKey:#"text"] isKindOfClass:[NSDictionary class]]) {
// this means the object has the key "text" and has no node
// or array (for multiple values) attached to it.
[XMLDictionary setObject:[object objectForKey:#"text"] forKey:key];
}
else {
// go deeper
[self extractXML:object];
}
}
else if ([object isKindOfClass:[NSArray class]]) {
// this is an array of dictionaries, iterate
for (id inArrayObject in (NSArray *)object) {
if ([inArrayObject isKindOfClass:[NSDictionary class]]) {
// if this is a dictionary, go deeper
[self extractXML:inArrayObject];
}
}
}
}
return XMLDictionary;
}
And use it like this
NSDictionary *clearXML = [[self extractXML:[yourParsedXMLDictionary mutableCopy]] copy];

Answer 2

Your problem in using XMLReader. For resolve this problem you can use XMLConverter instead of the XMLReader.