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Reputation: 863

Decodable with subclasses in Swift

I'm new with Decodable in swift. I just learned how to use it but I'm stuck with trying to decode a subclass within another class's init(from decoder: ).

The question is how do I decode this other class from the original class init?

I get a user JSON file looking like this 

{
     firstName:Tim,
     LastName: Apple,
     ...
     socialNetworks: [
         {
             name: Facebook,
             username: Tim85,
             ...
         },
         {
             name: Twitter,
             username: Tim_85,
             ...
         },
         ...
     ],
 }

I have a User class that looks like this

class User: Codable {

   firstName: String,
   lastName: String,
   ...
   socialNetworks: [SocialNetwork]


   enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {
       case firstName, lastName, ..., socialNetworks
   }

   required init(from decoder: Decoder) throws {
       let container = try decoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self)

       self.firstName = try container.decodeIfPresent(String.self, forKey: .firstName) ?? ""
       self.lastName = try container.decodeIfPresent(String.self, forKey: .lastName) ?? ""

       // How do I also decode SocialNetworks???

   }

   ...

}

I also have a SocialNetwork class. 

class SocialNetwork: Codable {

   name: String,
   username: String,
   ...


   enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey {
       case name, username, ...
   }

   required init(from decoder: Decoder) throws {
       let container = try decoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self)

       self.name = try container.decodeIfPresent(String.self, forKey: .name) ?? ""
       self.username = try container.decodeIfPresent(String.self, forKey: .userName) ?? ""
   }

   ...

}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 524

Answers (1)

Shehata Gamal
Shehata Gamal

Reputation: 100503

You don't have to write any custom init

struct Root: Codable {
    let firstName, lastName: String
    let socialNetworks: [SocialNetwork]

    enum CodingKeys: String, CodingKey { // you can remove this block if LastName starts with l small instead of L
        case firstName
        case lastName = "LastName"
        case socialNetworks
    }
}

struct SocialNetwork: Codable {
    let name, username: String
}

For a try it would be

self.socialNetworks = try container.decodeIfPresent([SocialNetwork].self, forKey: .socialNetworks) ?? []

But the decoder do this for you

Upvotes: 2

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