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KhushV
KhushV

Reputation: 65

Why is NSJSONSerialization parsing NSDictionary incorrectly into JSON?

I'm making a POST request to a server from an IOS app and sending a JSON payload of an email and password value.

My code so far is making a NSDictionary and serializing it into NSData:

NSDictionary *dictionary = @{ @"email" : @"[email protected]" , @"password" : @"mypass" };

NSData *payload = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:dictionary options:0 error:nil];

I attach the payload as part of the request.HTTPBody, however the server receives the following data:

{ '{"email":"[email protected]", "password":"mypass"}' : ' ' }

It seems to be taking the whole string as the key and emitting a null as the value.

Any ideas/solutions to this problem? I've had a look at but it doesn't make See this link sense to me.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 330

Answers (2)

Jerome Diaz
Jerome Diaz

Reputation: 1866

Seems like you are making something like

request.HTTPBody = encodedVersionOfPayload;

while you should be marking something more like 

request.HTTPBody = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@=%@", yourKey, encodedVersionOfPayload];

Please show us this part of your code.

UPDATE

After a quick look to documentation, NSMutableURLRequest, HTTPBody property is a NSData and not a NSString,

so you have probably written

request.HTTPBody = payload;

where you should have something more like

NSString *jsonString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:payload encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSString *payloadString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"data=%@", jsonString];
request.HTTPBody = [payloadString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

(not tested but should be correct, your json object should be available on your server using the key "data")

Upvotes: 0

Abhinav
Abhinav

Reputation: 38162

Nothing is wrong in your payload. Data is being messed up in HTTP layer. Please ensure you have following content type set in your request headers.

"Content-Type" = "application/json";

Upvotes: 1

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