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

{
    "User":[
      {
        "FirstUser":{
        "name":"John"
        },
       "Information":"XY",
        "SecondUser":{
        "name":"Tom"
      }
     }
   ]
}

If I create model using previous json Using this link [blog]: http://www.jsoncafe.com to generate Codable structure or Any Format

Model

import Foundation
struct RootClass : Codable {
    let user : [Users]?
    enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {
        case user = "User"
    }

    init(from decoder: Decoder) throws {
        let values = try? decoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self)
        user = try? values?.decodeIfPresent([Users].self, forKey: .user)
    }
}

struct Users : Codable {
    let firstUser : FirstUser?
    let information : String?
    let secondUser : SecondUser?
    enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {
        case firstUser = "FirstUser"
        case information = "Information"
        case secondUser = "SecondUser"
    }
    init(from decoder: Decoder) throws {
        let values = try? decoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self)
        firstUser = try? FirstUser(from: decoder)
        information = try? values?.decodeIfPresent(String.self, forKey: .information)
        secondUser = try? SecondUser(from: decoder)
    }
}
struct SecondUser : Codable {
    let name : String?
    enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {
        case name = "name"
    }
    init(from decoder: Decoder) throws {
        let values = try? decoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self)
        name = try? values?.decodeIfPresent(String.self, forKey: .name)
    }
}
struct FirstUser : Codable {
    let name : String?
    enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {
        case name = "name"
    }
    init(from decoder: Decoder) throws {
        let values = try? decoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self)
        name = try? values?.decodeIfPresent(String.self, forKey: .name)
    }
}

Parse

    do {
        let res = try JSONDecoder().decode(RootClass.self, from: data)
        print(res?.user?.first?.firstUser?.name ?? "Yours optional value")
    } catch {
        print(error)
    }

Answer 2

This is an other way to solve your problem. So please check out below solution. Hope it will help you.

let str = "{\"names\": [\"Bob\", \"Tim\", \"Tina\"]}"
let data = str.data(using: String.Encoding.utf8, allowLossyConversion: false)!
do {
    let json = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data, options: []) as! [String: AnyObject]
    if let names = json["names"] as? [String] {
        print(names)
    }
} catch let error as NSError {
    print("Failed to load: \(error.localizedDescription)")
}

Answer 3

Updated the isConnectToNetwork-Function afterwards, thanks to this post.

I wrote an extra method for it:

import SystemConfiguration

func loadingJSON(_ link:String, postString:String, completionHandler: @escaping (_ JSONObject: AnyObject) -> ()) {

    if(isConnectedToNetwork() == false){
        completionHandler("-1" as AnyObject)
        return
    }

    let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: URL(string: link)!)
    request.httpMethod = "POST"
    request.httpBody = postString.data(using: String.Encoding.utf8)

    let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest) { data, response, error in
        guard error == nil && data != nil else { // check for fundamental networking error
            print("error=\(error)")
            return
        }

        if let httpStatus = response as? HTTPURLResponse , httpStatus.statusCode != 200 { // check for http errors
            print("statusCode should be 200, but is \(httpStatus.statusCode)")
            print("response = \(response)")
        }
        //JSON successfull
        do {
            let parseJSON = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data!, options: .allowFragments)
            DispatchQueue.main.async(execute: {
                completionHandler(parseJSON as AnyObject)
            });
        } catch let error as NSError {
            print("Failed to load: \(error.localizedDescription)")
        }
    }
    task.resume()
}

func isConnectedToNetwork() -> Bool {

    var zeroAddress = sockaddr_in(sin_len: 0, sin_family: 0, sin_port: 0, sin_addr: in_addr(s_addr: 0), sin_zero: (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0))
    zeroAddress.sin_len = UInt8(MemoryLayout.size(ofValue: zeroAddress))
    zeroAddress.sin_family = sa_family_t(AF_INET)

    let defaultRouteReachability = withUnsafePointer(to: &zeroAddress) {
        $0.withMemoryRebound(to: sockaddr.self, capacity: 1) {zeroSockAddress in
            SCNetworkReachabilityCreateWithAddress(nil, zeroSockAddress)
        }
    }

    var flags: SCNetworkReachabilityFlags = SCNetworkReachabilityFlags(rawValue: 0)
    if SCNetworkReachabilityGetFlags(defaultRouteReachability!, &flags) == false {
        return false
    }

    let isReachable = (flags.rawValue & UInt32(kSCNetworkFlagsReachable)) != 0
    let needsConnection = (flags.rawValue & UInt32(kSCNetworkFlagsConnectionRequired)) != 0
    let ret = (isReachable && !needsConnection)

    return ret
}

So now you can easily call this in your app wherever you want

loadingJSON("yourDomain.com/login.php", postString:"email=\(userEmail!)&password=\(password!)") { parseJSON in

    if(String(describing: parseJSON) == "-1"){
        print("No Internet")
    } else {

    if let loginSuccessfull = parseJSON["loginSuccessfull"] as? Bool {
        //... do stuff
    }
}