Simple and clean way to convert JSON string to Object in Swift

Question

I have been searching for days to convert a fairly simple JSON string to an object type in Swift but with no avail.

Here is the code for web service call:

Answer 1

It might be help someone. Similar example.

This is our Codable class to bind data. You can easily create this class using SwiftyJsonAccelerator

 class ModelPushNotificationFilesFile: Codable {

  enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {
    case url
    case id
    case fileExtension = "file_extension"
    case name
  }

  var url: String?
  var id: Int?
  var fileExtension: String?
  var name: String?

  init (url: String?, id: Int?, fileExtension: String?, name: String?) {
    self.url = url
    self.id = id
    self.fileExtension = fileExtension
    self.name = name
  }

  required init(from decoder: Decoder) throws {
    let container = try decoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self)
    url = try container.decodeIfPresent(String.self, forKey: .url)
    id = try container.decodeIfPresent(Int.self, forKey: .id)
    fileExtension = try container.decodeIfPresent(String.self, forKey: .fileExtension)
    name = try container.decodeIfPresent(String.self, forKey: .name)
  }

}

This is Json String

    let jsonString = "[{\"name\":\"\",\"file_extension\":\"\",\"id\":10684,\"url\":\"https:\\/\\/homepages.cae.wisc.edu\\/~ece533\\/images\\/tulips.png\"},

{\"name\":\"\",\"file_extension\":\"\",\"id\":10684,\"url\":\"https:\\/\\/homepages.cae.wisc.edu\\/~ece533\\/images\\/arctichare.png\"},

{\"name\":\"\",\"file_extension\":\"\",\"id\":10684,\"url\":\"https:\\/\\/homepages.cae.wisc.edu\\/~ece533\\/images\\/serrano.png\"},

{\"name\":\"\",\"file_extension\":\"\",\"id\":10684,\"url\":\"https:\\/\\/homepages.cae.wisc.edu\\/~ece533\\/images\\/peppers.png\"},

{\"name\":\"\",\"file_extension\":\"\",\"id\":10684,\"url\":\"https:\\/\\/homepages.cae.wisc.edu\\/~ece533\\/images\\/pool.png\"}]"

Here we convert to swift object.

   let jsonData = Data(jsonString.utf8)

        let decoder = JSONDecoder()

        do {
            let fileArray = try decoder.decode([ModelPushNotificationFilesFile].self, from: jsonData)
            print(fileArray)
            print(fileArray[0].url)
        } catch {
            print(error.localizedDescription)
        }