Swift 4 Codable: Converting JSON return String to Int/Date/Float

Question

I\'m going through some projects and removing JSON parsing frameworks, as it seems pretty simple to do with Swift 4. I\'ve encountered this oddball JSON return where I

Answer 1

public extension KeyedDecodingContainer {
public func decode(_ type: Date.Type, forKey key: Key) throws -> Date {
    let dateString = try self.decode(String.self, forKey: key)
    let dateFormatter = DateFormatter()
    dateFormatter.dateFormat = "MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a"
    guard let date = dateFormatter.date(from: dateString) else {
        let context = DecodingError.Context(codingPath: codingPath,
                                            debugDescription: "Could not parse json key to a Date")
        throw DecodingError.dataCorrupted(context)
    }
    return date
}
}

Usage: -

let date: Date = try container.decode(Date.self, forKey: . createdDateTime)