Deserializing local NSString of JSON into objects via RestKit (no network download)

Question

Is it possible to deserialize an NSString of JSON into objects via RestKit? I checked the API list here and could not find something that would serve for this p

Answer 1

This works for Restkit 0.21.0:

NSString* jsonFilePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"fileName"
                                                 ofType:@"json"];

NSString* JSONString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:jsonFilePath
                                              encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding
                                                 error:NULL];


NSError* error;
NSData *data = [JSONString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
id parsedData = [RKMIMETypeSerialization objectFromData:data MIMEType:RKMIMETypeJSON error:&error];
if (parsedData == nil && error) {
    // Parser error...
}

//_objectManager is RKObjectManager instance
NSMutableDictionary *mappingsDictionary = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
for (RKResponseDescriptor *descriptor in _objectManager.responseDescriptors) {
    [mappingsDictionary setObject:descriptor.mapping forKey:descriptor.keyPath];
}

RKMapperOperation *mapper = [[RKMapperOperation alloc] initWithRepresentation:parsedData mappingsDictionary:mappingsDictionary];
NSError *mappingError = nil;
BOOL isMapped = [mapper execute:&mappingError];
if (isMapped && !mappingError) {
    NSLog(@"result %@",[mapper mappingResult]);
}