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Parsing JSON in Objective C
// json s string for NSDictionary object
NSString *s = @"{\"temperature\": -260.65, \"humidity\": 54.05, \"time\": \"2016-03-14T09:46:48Z\", \"egg\": 1, \"id\": 6950, \"no2\": 0.0}";
// comment above and uncomment below line, json s string for NSArray object
// NSString *s = @"[{\"ID\":{\"Content\":268,\"type\":\"text\"},\"ContractTemplateID\":{\"Content\":65,\"type\":\"text\"}}]";
NSData *jsonData = [s dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSError *error;
// Note that JSONObjectWithData will return either an NSDictionary or an NSArray, depending whether your JSON string represents an a dictionary or an array.
id jsonObject = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:jsonData options:0 error:&error];
if (error) {
NSLog(@"Error parsing JSON: %@", error);
}
else
{
if ([jsonObject isKindOfClass:[NSArray class]])
{
NSLog(@"it is an array!");
NSArray *jsonArray = (NSArray *)jsonObject;
NSLog(@"jsonArray - %@",jsonArray);
}
else {
NSLog(@"it is a dictionary");
NSDictionary *jsonDictionary = (NSDictionary *)jsonObject;
NSLog(@"jsonDictionary - %@",jsonDictionary);
}
}
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