Parsing JSON (date) to Swift

Question

I have a return JSON in my application in Swift, and have a field that returns me a date. When I refer to this data, the code gives me something like \"/ Date (1420420409680

Answer 1

Adding onto what the others have provided, simply create utility method in your class below:

  func dateFromStringConverter(date: String)-> NSDate? {
    //Create Date Formatter
    let dateFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
    //Specify Format of String to Parse
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ" //or you can use "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssX"
    //Parse into NSDate
    let dateFromString : NSDate = dateFormatter.dateFromString(date)!

    return dateFromString
}

Then you can call this method in your successfully returned, parsed JSON object, like below:

//Parse the date
 guard let datePhotoWasTaken = itemDictionary["date_taken"] as? String else {return}
     YourClassModel.dateTakenProperty = self.dateFromStringConverter(datePhotoWasTaken)

Or you can ignore the utility method and the caller code above entirely and simply do this:

//Parse the date
 guard let datePhotoWasTaken = itemDictionary["date_taken"] as? NSString else {return}
     YourClassModel.dateTakenProperty = NSDate(timeIntervalSince1970: datePhotoWasTaken.doubleValue)

And that should work!