Gson equivalent in Objective-C

Question

Is there any equivalent to gson in Objective-C?

Thanks.

Answer 1

In Objective-C the functionality of GSON is sort of built in. Say I have a class defined like so:

 @interface MyModel : NSObject
 @property(nonatomic,strong) NSString *name;
 @property(nonatomic,strong) NSString *address;
 @end

And lets say that I have a JSON object defined like so

{
    "name":"marc",
    "address":"1234 Some Street"
}

Then I can use AFNetowrking to get an NSDictionary of the JSON object which is pretty easy. Finally you can just do a loop like so where dict is the dictionary returned by AFNetworking parsing the JSON and self is an instance of MyModel.

for (NSString *key in dict) {
   [self setObject:dict[key] forKey:key];
}

In Java GSON uses reflection to achieve the same effect as the above loop. Its just a lot easier in objective-c so no need for a library to do it. If you have nested objects maybe AFNetworking with DCKeyValueObjectMapping.