How to serialize or convert Swift objects to JSON?

Question

This below class

class User: NSManagedObject {
  @NSManaged var id: Int
  @NSManaged var name: String
}

Needs to be converted to

Answer 1

Some of the above answers are completely fine, but I added an extension here, just to make it much more readable and usable.

extension Encodable {
    var convertToString: String? {
        let jsonEncoder = JSONEncoder()
        jsonEncoder.outputFormatting = .prettyPrinted
        do {
            let jsonData = try jsonEncoder.encode(self)
            return String(data: jsonData, encoding: .utf8)
        } catch {
            return nil
        }
    }
}

struct User: Codable {
     var id: Int
     var name: String
}

let user = User(id: 1, name: "name")
print(user.convertToString!)

//This will print like the following:

{
  "id" : 1,
  "name" : "name"
}