Destroy a JSON array into an array of Swift objects

Question

I am new to Swift and cannot figure out how to deserialize a JSON array for an array of Swift objects. I can deserialize a single JSON user for a custom Swift object, but just don't know how to do this with an array of JSON users.

Here is my User.swift class:

class User {
    var id: Int
    var firstName: String?
    var lastName: String?
    var email: String
    var password: String?

    init (){
        id = 0
        email = ""
    }

    init(user: NSDictionary) {
        id = (user["id"] as? Int)!
        email = (user["email"] as? String)!

        if let firstName = user["first_name"] {
            self.firstName = firstName as? String
        }

        if let lastName = user["last_name"] {
            self.lastName = lastName as? String
        }

        if let password = user["password"] {
            self.password = password as? String
        }
     }
}

Here is the class where I am trying to deserialize JSON:

//single user works.
Alamofire.request(.GET, muURL/user)
         .responseJSON { response in
                if let user = response.result.value {
                    var swiftUser = User(user: user as! NSDictionary)
                }
          }

//array of users -- not sure how to do it. Do I need to loop?
Alamofire.request(.GET, muURL/users)
         .responseJSON { response in
                if let users = response.result.value {
                    var swiftUsers = //how to get [swiftUsers]?
                }
          }

Answer 1

The best approach is to use the Serialization of group response objects provided Alamofire, here is an example:

1) Add the extension to your API manager or to a separate file

    public protocol ResponseObjectSerializable {
        init?(response: NSHTTPURLResponse, representation: AnyObject)
    }

    extension Request {
        public func responseObject<T: ResponseObjectSerializable>(completionHandler: Response<T, NSError> -> Void) -> Self {
            let responseSerializer = ResponseSerializer<T, NSError> { request, response, data, error in
                guard error == nil else { return .Failure(error!) }

                let JSONResponseSerializer = Request.JSONResponseSerializer(options: .AllowFragments)
                let result = JSONResponseSerializer.serializeResponse(request, response, data, error)

                switch result {
                case .Success(let value):
                    if let
                        response = response,
                        responseObject = T(response: response, representation: value)
                    {
                        return .Success(responseObject)
                    } else {
                        let failureReason = "JSON could not be serialized into response object: \(value)"
                        let error = Error.errorWithCode(.JSONSerializationFailed, failureReason: failureReason)
                        return .Failure(error)
                    }
                case .Failure(let error):
                    return .Failure(error)
                }
            }

            return response(responseSerializer: responseSerializer, completionHandler: completionHandler)
        }
    }

public protocol ResponseCollectionSerializable {
    static func collection(response response: NSHTTPURLResponse, representation: AnyObject) -> [Self]
}

extension Alamofire.Request {
    public func responseCollection<T: ResponseCollectionSerializable>(completionHandler: Response<[T], NSError> -> Void) -> Self {
        let responseSerializer = ResponseSerializer<[T], NSError> { request, response, data, error in
            guard error == nil else { return .Failure(error!) }

            let JSONSerializer = Request.JSONResponseSerializer(options: .AllowFragments)
            let result = JSONSerializer.serializeResponse(request, response, data, error)

            switch result {
            case .Success(let value):
                if let response = response {
                    return .Success(T.collection(response: response, representation: value))
                } else {
                    let failureReason = "Response collection could not be serialized due to nil response"
                    let error = Error.errorWithCode(.JSONSerializationFailed, failureReason: failureReason)
                    return .Failure(error)
                }
            case .Failure(let error):
                return .Failure(error)
            }
        }

        return response(responseSerializer: responseSerializer, completionHandler: completionHandler)
    }
}

2) update your model object as follows:

final class User: ResponseObjectSerializable, ResponseCollectionSerializable {
    let username: String
    let name: String

    init?(response: NSHTTPURLResponse, representation: AnyObject) {
        self.username = response.URL!.lastPathComponent!
        self.name = representation.valueForKeyPath("name") as! String
    }

    static func collection(response response: NSHTTPURLResponse, representation: AnyObject) -> [User] {
        var users: [User] = []

        if let representation = representation as? [[String: AnyObject]] {
            for userRepresentation in representation {
                if let user = User(response: response, representation: userRepresentation) {
                    users.append(user)
                }
            }
        }

        return users
    }
}

3), :

Alamofire.request(.GET, "http://example.com/users")
         .responseCollection { (response: Response<[User], NSError>) in
             debugPrint(response)
         }

:

: Alamofire JSON

Answer 2

Alamofire , Hearst-DD ObjectMapper Alamofire AlamofireObjectMapper. , !

Answer 3

, ( VC, ), .

    Alamofire.request(.GET, "YourURL/users")
        .responseJSON { response in

            if let users = response.result.value {

                for user in users {

                    var swiftUser = User(user: user as! NSDictionary)

                    //should ideally be a property of the VC
                    var userArray : [User]

                    userArray.append(swiftUser)
                }
            }
    }

Answer 4

EVReflection https://github.com/evermeer/EVReflection , , JSON ( , EVReflection):

let json:String = "{
    \"id\": 24, 
    \"name\": \"Bob Jefferson\",
    \"friends\": [{
        \"id\": 29, 
        \"name\": 
        \"Jen Jackson\"}]}"

:

class User: EVObject {
    var id: Int = 0
    var name: String = ""
    var friends: [User]? = []
}

:

let user = User(json: json)