Correctly Parsing JSON in Swift 3

Question

I\'m trying to fetch a JSON response and store the results in a variable. I\'ve had versions of this code work in previous releases of Swift, until the GM version of Xcode 8

Answer 1

I built quicktype exactly for this purpose. Just paste your sample JSON and quicktype generates this type hierarchy for your API data:

struct Forecast {
    let hourly: Hourly
    let daily: Daily
    let currently: Currently
    let flags: Flags
    let longitude: Double
    let latitude: Double
    let offset: Int
    let timezone: String
}

struct Hourly {
    let icon: String
    let data: [Currently]
    let summary: String
}

struct Daily {
    let icon: String
    let data: [Datum]
    let summary: String
}

struct Datum {
    let precipIntensityMax: Double
    let apparentTemperatureMinTime: Int
    let apparentTemperatureLowTime: Int
    let apparentTemperatureHighTime: Int
    let apparentTemperatureHigh: Double
    let apparentTemperatureLow: Double
    let apparentTemperatureMaxTime: Int
    let apparentTemperatureMax: Double
    let apparentTemperatureMin: Double
    let icon: String
    let dewPoint: Double
    let cloudCover: Double
    let humidity: Double
    let ozone: Double
    let moonPhase: Double
    let precipIntensity: Double
    let temperatureHigh: Double
    let pressure: Double
    let precipProbability: Double
    let precipIntensityMaxTime: Int
    let precipType: String?
    let sunriseTime: Int
    let summary: String
    let sunsetTime: Int
    let temperatureMax: Double
    let time: Int
    let temperatureLow: Double
    let temperatureHighTime: Int
    let temperatureLowTime: Int
    let temperatureMin: Double
    let temperatureMaxTime: Int
    let temperatureMinTime: Int
    let uvIndexTime: Int
    let windGust: Double
    let uvIndex: Int
    let windBearing: Int
    let windGustTime: Int
    let windSpeed: Double
}

struct Currently {
    let precipProbability: Double
    let humidity: Double
    let cloudCover: Double
    let apparentTemperature: Double
    let dewPoint: Double
    let ozone: Double
    let icon: String
    let precipIntensity: Double
    let temperature: Double
    let pressure: Double
    let precipType: String?
    let summary: String
    let uvIndex: Int
    let windGust: Double
    let time: Int
    let windBearing: Int
    let windSpeed: Double
}

struct Flags {
    let sources: [String]
    let isdStations: [String]
    let units: String
}

It also generates dependency-free marshaling code to coax the return value of JSONSerialization.jsonObject into a Forecast, including a convenience constructor that takes a JSON string so you can quickly parse a strongly typed Forecast value and access its fields:

let forecast = Forecast.from(json: jsonString)!
print(forecast.daily.data[0].windGustTime)

You can install quicktype from npm with npm i -g quicktype or use the web UI to get the complete generated code to paste into your playground.