How do I format JSON Date String with Swift?

Question

I make an http get request to a server and get back a json object with a date string like this:

{
    name = \"Place1\";
    temperature = 79;
    humidity =         


        

Answer 1

Nowadays (September 2017) in Swift 4 there are smarter ways to decode ISO8601:

• ISO8601DateFormatter

  let str = "2013-07-21T19:32:00Z"
  let formatter = ISO8601DateFormatter()
  let yourDate = formatter.date(from: str)
  

• JSONDecoder

  struct Place : Decodable {
  
      let name : String
      let temperature : Int
      let humidity : Int
      let reportedAt : Date
  
  }
  
  let json = """
  {"name" : "Place1", "temperature" : 79, "humidity" : 68, "reported_at" : "2013-07-21T19:32:00Z"}
  """
  let data = Data(json.utf8)
  
  let decoder =  JSONDecoder()
  decoder.dateDecodingStrategy = .iso8601
  decoder.keyDecodingStrategy = .convertFromSnakeCase
  let place = try! decoder.decode(Place.self, from: data)