objective c parse json from url request

Question

I am trying to parse a json string requested from an api located at: http://www.physics.leidenuniv.nl/json/news.php

However, i am having trouble parsing this json. I get

Answer 1

I would recommend doing it this way:

NSURLRequest *request = [[NSURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.physics.leidenuniv.nl/json/news.php"]];

__block NSDictionary *json;
[NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest:request
                                   queue:[NSOperationQueue mainQueue]
                       completionHandler:^(NSURLResponse *response, NSData *data, NSError *connectionError) {
                           json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data
                                                                  options:0
                                                                    error:nil];
                           NSLog(@"Async JSON: %@", json);
                       }];

Or if for whatever reason (not recommended) you want to run a synchronous request you could do:

NSData *theData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request
                      returningResponse:nil
                                  error:nil];

NSDictionary *newJSON = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:theData
                                                        options:0
                                                          error:nil];

NSLog(@"Sync JSON: %@", newJSON);