NSJSONSerialization serialization of a string containing forward slashes / and HTML is escaped incorrectly

Question

I am trying to convert some simple HTML into a string value in a JSON object and I\'m having trouble getting the string encoding to not escape the string in NSJSONSerializat

Answer 1

iOS 13 only: If you're not worried about producing invalid HTML sequences (as described in this answer), you can disable forward-slash escaping by passing the option NSJSONWritingWithoutEscapingSlashes to the serializer.

Example:

jsonData = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:batchUpdates
                                           options:NSJSONWritingWithoutEscapingSlashes
                                             error:nil];