quite new to iOS development and objective-c at the same time. I have the following method:
-(NSMutableArray *)fetchDatabaseJSON{
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:#"http://www.ios.com/ios/responseScript.php"];
NSError *error = nil;
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
NSData *data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:NULL error:&error];
//jsonArray = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:0 error:&error];
//NSLog(#"Array: %#",[jsonArray objectAtIndex:0]);
jsonDictionary = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:0 error:&error];
NSLog(#"Dictionary: %#", jsonDictionary);
return jsonArray;
}
Now the NSLog shows this:
2013-02-03 19:15:37.081 TestConnection[24510:c07] Dictionary: (
Bannana,
Apple,
SomeCheese )
From what I understand that whatever is inside the dictionary doesn't have key-value. How can this be? and how can I fix it? I want to be able to have keys to ease operations on dictionary.
Regards,
JSONObjectWithData may return an NSArray or NSDictionary, depending on the JSON data you give it. If your JSON string is an array, you will have an NSArray. If your JSON data is a dictionary, you will get an NSDictionary.
Convert your JSON data (your data variable) to string and print it out with NSLog. To convert NSData to NSString, use something like:
NSString *myString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:myData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
If you print it out and see a JSON array, you simply don't have a dictionary there.. If you can alter the server-code that generates the JSON, you may be able to change that.
One more thing I noticed, you assume that the returning container is mutable. If I'm not mistaken, you need to use an option like NSJSONReadingMutableContainers in the options parameter of JSONObjectWithData to get that.
One last tip, if you want to check in code if you have an NSArray (or NSDictionary), use something like:
if ([obj isKindOfClass:[NSArray class]]) {...}
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I am making this app that gets some data from the url (censored). The problem is that I didn't found a solution to get what the PHP script echo.
A normal returned array from that script looks this:
{"user_data": {"id":"78","image":"https://www.i********p.com/uploads/ideas/fun/2017/03/28/78.jpg","idea":"Join Facebook groups related to your passions or hobbies and meet friends.","owner_ID":"1","owner":"Eduard","owner_photo":"https://www.i********p.com/uploads/members/1/1.png","rating":"4","reviews":"1 review","msg":"success"}}
The question is how can I access each value of this array from "user_data" using Objective-c (without a loop)?
The Objective-c code:
- (void)getJSON {
NSError *error;
NSString *url_string = [NSString stringWithFormat: #"https://www.app.i******o.com/getidea.php?topic=%#", ideasTopic];
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL: [NSURL URLWithString:url_string]];
NSMutableArray *json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:kNilOptions error:&error];
if (error) {
NSLog(#"Something went wrong: %#", error);
} else {
NSLog(#"json: %#", json);
NSLog(#"IMAGE: %#", [[json getObjectAtIndex:0] getObjectForKey:#"image"]);
}}
Objective-C supports literal version to access dictionary. You can directly access values by using keys.
NSString *imageUrl = json[#"user_data"][#"image"];
Your json is a dictionary of dictionaries. json[#"user_data"] returns a dictionary with keys and values. You can access values for this dictionary through respective keys. json[#"user_data"][#"image"] gives you required value for respective key.
Edit:
You need to change your json variable type to NSDictionary too.
NSDictionary *json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:kNilOptions error:&error];
The JSON text you provided is deserialized into NSDictionary object (you can check it yourself, by looking up what class a json variable has in your example).
So to get what you want (ex. image), you simply write
json["user_data"]["image"]
i want to take 450
from the following:
NSString {status:0,val:450}
using objective c:
{status:0,val:450}
Please suggest me answer
I cannot completely understand your question . I think you have you have an JSON data like:
{
status:0;
val:450;
}
If you want this data in your app. You want to do
NSURL *blogURL = [NSURL URLWithString:#"https://your url here"];
NSData *jsonData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:blogURL];
NSError *error = nil;
NSDictionary *dataDictionary = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:jsonData options:0 error:&error];
NSDictionary *data = [dataDictionary objectForKey:#"status"];
NSDictionary *item = [data objectForKey:#"val"];
Your JSON Data get in Dictionary format. You can access the Data using the Key. In here your keys are status and val.
I hope this links are help for you.
fetch parse json ios programming tutorial
and this Link:
json parsing in ios
my app get data from a php web service and return a NSString
["first name","last name","adress","test#test","000-000-0000","password","code","0"]
How can i get the second element ?
This is a JSON formatted string which you are getting from your web service.
You must be getting bytes from server. Just replace your variable which have bytes stored with my variable "response data".
Code:
NSError* error;
NSArray* myResultArray = [NSJSONSerialization
JSONObjectWithData:responseData options:kNilOptions error:&error];
You will get an array in variable "myResultArray" and you can get all value by index.
Code:
NSString* first name = [myResultArray objectAtIndex:0];
What you have given here is an array and not a string. May be you could provide more details like the exact response and the code that you are trying here.
To Convert a JSON string to NSDictionary all you need to do is:
NSError *jsonError;
NSData *objectData = [jsonString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSDictionary *json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:objectData
options:nil
error:&jsonError];
And to NSArray :
NSArray *array = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:objectData options:nil error:&jsonError];
NSString *secondElement = array[1];
That web service doesn't return an NSString. It runs data in some format defined by the service, and you convert it to an NSString. Find out what the format actually is, then convert it appropriately, for example using NSJSONSerialization.
The example string your showed here seems wired. This looks more like a array than string. If this is a NSArray then you can do it like this:
NSArray *data = #[#"first name",#"last name", #"adress", #"test#test", #"000-000-0000", #"password", #"code", #"0"];
NSLog (#"Second component = %#", data[1]);
However, if you anticipate this as NSString then this is how you would handle this:
NSString *test = #"[\"first name\",\"last name\",\"adress\",\"test#test\",\"000-000-0000\",\"password\",\"code\",\"0\"]";
NSLog (#"Second component = %#", [test componentsSeparatedByString:#","][1]);
I have a NSArray of custom objects (only NSString, NSArray, NSNumber) and I need to send this JSON to the server. Using NSJSONSerialization throws an error because it is not a property list.
Is there any other way, except manually creating a NSString object in JSON format?
NSString *manualPost = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"{\"key1\": \"%#\",\"key2\": \"%#\",\"key3\": %#,\"keyArray4\": [%#]}", val1, val2, val3, valArray4];
To close this question, right answer is using dictionary and values can be NSArrays, NSNumbers, NSStrings - in other words - Property List.
Sample:
NSDictionary *postDictionary = #{#"key1": #"value1",
#"key2": #(1),
#"key3":#[#"key3", #(5.9)]
};
NSError *error;
NSData *postData = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:postDictionary options:NSJSONWritingPrettyPrinted error:&error];
NSLog(#"PostData %#", postData);
NSLog(#"Error: %#", error);
I'm trying to parse this JSON that looks to me like well written, but NSJSONSerialization doesn't think the same AFAIK since it's returning an NSArray.
This is my code:
NSData* gamesData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:
[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://s42sport.com/polarice/json/games.json"]
];
NSDictionary* json = nil;
if (gamesData) {
json = [NSJSONSerialization
JSONObjectWithData:gamesData
options:kNilOptions
error:nil];
NSLog(#"%d",json.count);
}
The questions are,
What's wrong with the JSON? Why NSSerialization doesn't return me the NSDictionary?
Edit: Yes, I just learned about the [...] vs {...}. Thank You.
Parse your json by this way.
NSURL * url=[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://s42sport.com/polarice/json/games.json"];
NSData * data=[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];
NSError * error;
NSMutableDictionary * json=[NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:NSJSONReadingMutableLeaves error:&error];
NSLog(#"%#",json);
NSArray * array1=[json valueForKey:#"c"];
NSLog(#"%#",array1);
Try this code. this will surely work for you.
NSDictionnary should be used for Object whereas NSArray is use for JSON array
NSArray* json = nil;
if (gamesData) {
json = [NSJSONSerialization
JSONObjectWithData:gamesData
options:kNilOptions
error:nil];
NSLog(#"%d",json.count);
}
The JSON file you listed is an array (it starts and ends with a square bracket) so Objective-C reflects that with an NSArray root object.