Removing nulls from a JSON structure recursively

Question

I\'m frequently finding the need to cache data structures created by NSJSONSerialization to disk and as -writeToFile fails if there are nulls, I ne

Answer 1

+ (id)getObjectWithoutNullsForObject:(id)object
{
    id objectWithoutNulls;

    if ([object isKindOfClass:[NSDictionary class]])
    {
        NSMutableDictionary *dictionary = ((NSDictionary *)object).mutableCopy;

        [dictionary removeObjectsForKeys:[dictionary allKeysForObject:[NSNull null]]];

        for (NSString *key in dictionary.allKeys)
        {
            dictionary[key] = [self getObjectWithoutNullsForObject:dictionary[key]];
        }

        objectWithoutNulls = dictionary;
    }
    else if ([object isKindOfClass:[NSArray class]])
    {
        NSMutableArray *array = ((NSArray *)object).mutableCopy;

        [array removeObject:[NSNull null]];

        for (NSUInteger index = 0; index < array.count; index++)
        {
            array[index] = [self getObjectWithoutNullsForObject:array[index]];
        }

        objectWithoutNulls = array;
    }
    else if ([object isKindOfClass:[NSNull class]])
    {
        objectWithoutNulls = Nil;
    }
    else
    {
        objectWithoutNulls = object;
    }

    return objectWithoutNulls;
}