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memyselfandmyiphone
memyselfandmyiphone

Reputation: 1110

Parsing Json Output correctly

I am trying to correctly target the elements within the Json Output and I am getting closer but I presume there is a easy and obvious way I am missing.

My Json looks like this with a upper level event.

JSON SNIPPET UPDATED

chat =     (
            (
                    {
            Key = senderId;
            Value =                 {
                Type = 0;
                Value = "eu-west-1:91afbc3f-890a-4160-8903-688bf0e9efe8";
            };
        },
                    {
            Key = chatId;
            Value =                 {
                Type = 0;
                Value = "eu-west-1:be6457ce-bac1-412d-9307-e375e52e22ff";
            };
        },
                    {
            Key = timestamp;
            Value =                 {
                Type = 1;
                Value = 1430431197;
            };
        },

//Continued

I am targeting this level using 

NSArray *chat = array[@"chat"];

for ( NSDictionary *theCourse in chat )
{
    NSLog(@"---- %@", theCourse);

    // I tried the following to target the values 
    //NSLog(@"chatId: %@", [theCourse valueForKey:@"Key"]);
    //NSLog(@"timestamp: %@", theCourse[@"senderId"] ); 
} 
}

I need to parse the value data for each key which if I was using an array would do like [theCourse valueForKey:@"Key"] but I think I may not be going deep enough?

As you would expect, [theCourse valueForKey:@"Key"] gives me the Key values but I need the associate values of those keys.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 80

Answers (1)

jjv360
jjv360

Reputation: 4140

You can create an easier dictionary:

NSArray *chat = array[@"chat"][0];
NSMutableDictionary* newDict = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
for (NSDictionary* d in chat)
    [newDict setValue:d[@"Value"][@"Value"] forKey:d[@"Key"]];

Now you can use the newDict.

NSLog(@"chatId: %@", [newDict valueForKey:@"chatId"]);

Upvotes: 1

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