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iosobjective-crequesthttp-post
Teo
Teo

Reputation: 3442

objective-c json serialization

I need to create a POST request and in it's body I need to put a JSON. The template for the JSON file is as follows: 

{"key" : [{...}, {...}, {...} ..... ]}

What I've tried doing is something like this:

@{@"key" : @[@{...}, @{...} ... ]};

The issue I have is that it puts round brackets around the NSArray. This is the output:

{key = ({...}, {...}, ..... )}

Snippet from my code(after I've created the NSDictionary)

    NSError *error;
    NSData *jsonData = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:myDictionary
                                                       options:NSJSONWritingPrettyPrinted
                                                         error:&error];
    [request setHTTPBody:jsonData];

Is there a way for me to make the NSArray have [ ] instead of ( )?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 514

Answers (1)

Wain
Wain

Reputation: 119021

NSLog uses {} for printing NSDictionary and () for printing NSArray contents. This has nothing to do with JSON. Your JSON data structure is created and encoded correctly. To verify do this:

NSLog(@"%@", [[NSString alloc] initWithData:jsonData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]);

And you will see that the actual JSON is printed.

Upvotes: 1

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