Dang, hit send too soon. Sorry. This does not address your question, so please ignore… (foot in mouth)!
Regards, Rien Site: http://balancingrock.nl Blog: http://swiftrien.blogspot.com Github: http://github.com/Balancingrock Project: http://swiftfire.nl - An HTTP(S) web server framework in Swift > On 18 Jun 2017, at 09:19, Rien <r...@balancingrock.nl> wrote: > > Are you looking for a general purpose JSON interpreter / API ? > > There are many of them around, and in fact I do have my own: > https://github.com/Balancingrock/VJson > > With VJson I would write: > > let json = VJson.parse(… your json object…) > > and then access the metadata as: > > let buyCount = (json | ”metadata” | ”buy_count”)?.intValue > > or: > > var buyCount: Int &= json | “metadata” | “buy_count” > > To loop over the content of metadata: > > for item in (json | “metadata”) ?? [ ] { > print (item.nameValue) > switch item.type { > case .object: … > case .number: … > case .string: … > etc... > } > } > > Obviously I am plugging my own code here, but there are many others around, I > understand that SwiftyJSON is quite popular but I have not used that myself. > > Regards, > Rien > > Site: http://balancingrock.nl > Blog: http://swiftrien.blogspot.com > Github: http://github.com/Balancingrock > Project: http://swiftfire.nl - An HTTP(S) web server framework in Swift > > > > > > > >> On 18 Jun 2017, at 04:07, Chris Anderson via swift-users >> <swift-users@swift.org> wrote: >> >> Say I have a JSON object such as: >> >> { >> "id": "4yq6txdpfadhbaqnwp3", >> "email": "john....@example.com", >> "name":"John Doe", >> "metadata": { >> "link_id": "linked-id", >> "buy_count": 4 >> } >> } >> >> And with a struct of: >> >> struct User: Codable { >> var id: String >> var email: String >> var name: String >> } >> >> How can I decode the `metadata` field into a Dictionary? >> >> I’ve tried doing things such as, in my struct, >> >> var metadata: Dictionary >> >> or >> >> var metadata: [String: Any] >> >> But I get the error >> >> MyPlayground.playground:3:7: note: cannot automatically synthesize >> 'Encodable' because '<<error type>>' does not conform to 'Encodable' >> var metadata: Dictionary >> >> A meta or metadata field on many APIs (such as www.stripe.com) can contain >> whatever you want, and I still want to be able to process it on the Swift >> end. How can I store that meta data field into a Dictionary that I can parse >> apart manually after? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Chris Anderson >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> swift-users mailing list >> swift-users@swift.org >> https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users > _______________________________________________ swift-users mailing list swift-users@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users
