Swift json decoding loses json object key order

Question

I have a simple JSON object:

{
    \"values\": {
        \"a\":\"\",
        \"b\":\"\",
        \"c\":\"\",
        \"d\":\"\",
        \"e\":\"\"
    }
}
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Answer 1

The following does not work so you don't waste time trying:

Back to the old fashion way, use JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: Data, options: JSONSerialization.ReadingOptions) -> Any.

It does keep order..... UNTIL you cast json?["values"] into a [String: Any]. At this time what Cezar says in the above answer enters the scene: dictionaries are unordered.

The following screenshot shows that, until json?["values"] is an Any, the order is kept in the string description.