Parsing JSON With SBJSON
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So the previous post focussed on retrieving data from a webservice – namely Google’s Local Search.
This post will focus on parsing the JSON returned from the webservice.
My personal choice for parsing JSON is the SBJON library. There are others out there such as TouchJSON and YAJL so check them put and decide for yourself.
Let’s start with a quick recap on what JSON is and how it can be used.
Wikipedia says:
JSON (an acronym for JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight text-based open standard designed for human-readable data interchange. It is derived from the JavaScript programming language for representing simple data structures and associative arrays, called objects. Despite its relationship to JavaScript, it is language-independent, with parsers available for virtually every programming language.
JSON presents its data as key-value pairs. Each value is referenced by a key name, which is a string. If you were to represent a person in JSON, their name would be referenced by the key “name” like so: “name” : “James”.
So, JSON represents data in a way that can be passed between applications easily. Perfect.
So when parsing data from a webservice, the first thing you should do is figure out your model. Look at an example of the webservice’s response and figure out which bits represent objects, arrays of objects, fields that belong to an object, etc.
But what kinds of data can JSON represent?
Objects are everything between the braces ( { } ).
Strings are enclosed in quotes.
Numbers aren’t enclosed by anything and just appear as numbers, e.g. 12345.
Arrays are enclosed in square brackets ( [ ] ).
Booleans take the form of the words ‘true’ or ‘false’ (without quotes).
Null values are represented as ‘null’ (without quotes).
So an example of JSON using all these data types:
And it’s representation in Objective-C:
You may think we’ve missed out some information, such as the details of the address, and phone numbers. It’s you decision how you model your objects. I’ve chosen to store the address details in a dictionary, each value being referenced by a key name, just as it is in JSON. The phone numbers also stored in dictionaries, but then those dictionaries put into an array.
If you wanted to, you could create another Class named Address and use it to store the address details. This may be a more object-oriented approach and useful if addresses are used in other places throughout your application without needing to be tied to a Person.
So now that you have your object model, you need to get the data out of the JSON and create instances of your model.
SBJSON has a useful SBJsonParser class that can parse an entire JSON object in one line:
SBJSON treats JSON objects as dictionaries in Objective-C. Depending on the webservice you may get a JSON object as the top level object or you may get an array. For this reason, objectWithString:error: has id as it’s return type. You can use Objective-C’s dynamism to determine which type of data store the parser as returned, like this:
If the webservice only ever returns one of the two representations as it’s top level then you can go ahead and assume it will be either an Array or Dictionary, and not have to worry about checking.
Now you have your JSON data in a format that you can manage via Objective-C. All you need to do now is iterate over the contents of the dictionary/array and create instances of Person to represent them.
One thing that’s important to remember is that literal numbers such as the age value in our Person example will be wrapped in NSNumber objects, so we’ll need to call ‘intValue’ on them to get the number.
And there we have it.
One final thing to take note of. You’ll notice that I used literal strings as key names while creating the Person objects. It might be better for you to determine each key name that you’ll be using and create a string constant for them. That way, when you’re parsing your data, if you misspell firstName, the compiler can throw an error (because it won’t match the name of the constant you created) and save you a lot of time debugging when, for some damn reason, you’re not getting any value for @”firtName”!
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