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PirateDave
PirateDave

Reputation: 161

JSON response encoding not coming back utf

I am trying to decode a json string with either jsonkit or nsjsonserialization from a server but I am getting the colon : marks changed to equal = signs and commas , changed to semi-colons ; e.g. from server:

"response": { "status": "OK","message": "","timestamp": "30 Mar 2013 11:33:08", 
"url":"/abc/api/getconfig/dev-game?language=en" }...

but the response I get doing either:

JSONDecoder *decodedData = [[JSONDecoder alloc] initWithParseOptions:JKParseOptionStrict];
NSDictionary *parsedList = [decodedData objectWithData:responseData];

or:

NSError *jsonError = nil;
NSDictionary *parsedList = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:responseData options:kNilOptions error:&jsonError];

gives me:

response =     {
    message = "";
    status = OK;
    timestamp = "30 Mar 2013 11:33:08";
    url = "/abc/api/getconfig/dev-game?language=en";
};
result =     {
    meta =         {
        dateLastModified = "29 Mar 2013 11:59:17";
    };

which gives me a lot of problems while trying to parse. I can do:

NSSTring *jsonString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:responseData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

or put the request url in a browser or jsonlint.com and I get the proper formatting, but I need this in a dictionary, because I need to be able to parse it. Unless it will be better to put this into a different data type, because I will be trying to find specific keys i.e. get every "column" if I have column_1, column_2... Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2339

Answers (1)

fumoboy007
fumoboy007

Reputation: 5543

JSONKit and NSJSONSerialization will parse the JSON string for you and create the NSDictionary/NSArray/NSString/NSNumber objects for you. You don't have to parse anything yourself. You're seeing equal signs and such because you're printing a description of the parsed response object (probably using NSLog).

Upvotes: 1

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