ios - Parsing JSON array in swift

Question

I am trying to parse the following JSON

[
    {
        "id": "5",
        "name": "Test",
        "team1": "thingy team",
        "team2": "clicky team",
        "category": "4",
        "end_date": "1415217600",
        "cat_name": "new thingy",
        "team1_bets": 1,
        "team2_bets": 1
    }
]

This is the JSON I am getting from my web services, and I am using the following code to parse it:

let urlAsString = "http://codespikestudios.com/betting_app/bet/get_events/4"
    //let urlAsString = "http://api.topcoder.com/v2/challenges?pageSize=2"
    let url: NSURL  = NSURL(string: urlAsString)!
    let urlSession = NSURLSession.sharedSession()

    let jsonQuery = urlSession.dataTaskWithURL(url, completionHandler: { data, response, error -> Void in
        if (error != nil) {
            println(error.localizedDescription)
        }
        var err: NSError?

        var jsonResult = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data, options: NSJSONReadingOptions.MutableContainers, error: &err) as NSDictionary
        if (err != nil) {
            println("JSON Error (err!.localizedDescription)")
        }

        println(jsonTime)
    })
    jsonQuery.resume()

I am getting the following error

The operation couldn’t be completed. (NSURLErrorDomain error -1005.) fatal error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value

how can I solve this?

Answer 1

Your URL is returning the following JSON -

[
    {
        "id": "5",
        "name": "Test",
        "team1": "thingy team",
        "team2": "clicky team",
        "category": "4",
        "end_date": "1415217600",
        "cat_name": "new thingy",
        "team1_bets": 1,
        "team2_bets": 1
    }
]

The outermost square brackets indicate that the root object is an array, so attempting to cast the result of your JSON parse to an NSDictionary causes problems.

Your code should be -

let urlAsString = "http://codespikestudios.com/betting_app/bet/get_events/4"
let url: NSURL  = NSURL(string: urlAsString)!
let urlSession = NSURLSession.sharedSession()

let jsonQuery = urlSession.dataTaskWithURL(url, completionHandler: { data, response, error -> Void in
    if (error != nil) {
        println(error.localizedDescription)
    }
    var err: NSError?

    var jsonResult = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data, options: NSJSONReadingOptions.MutableContainers, error: &err) as NSArray?
    if (err != nil) {
        println("JSON Error (err!.localizedDescription)")
    }

    println(jsonResult!)
})
jsonQuery.resume()