What's New in Foundation: Parsing JSON in Swift 4 | Ray Wenderlich

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In the past working with JSON meant using either NSJSONSerialization class or a third party library. Now it's a matter of implementing a simple protocol.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.raywenderlich.com/4055-what-s-new-in-foundation-parsing-json-in-swift-4
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Pretty cool, thanks!
What about nested objects? Is decoding just as easy?

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So long as the nested objects support the codable protocol, you shouldn’t have any issues.

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is it a personal preference (objc compatibility maybe) or is there any other reason for using reference type than value type for the objects i.e Article, Source… thanks

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Hi Brian,

Short and great tutorial. The title is " Parsing JSON in Swift 4", does it also apply to Objective-C, or do we still need to parse JSON in Objective-C in old way? Thanks!

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@mike You still have to use the NSJSONSerialization class for JSON parsing in Objective-C.

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Objective-C? What’s Objective-C :wink: Yeah, it looks like Codable isn’t available for Objective-C.

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Thanks, both! :grinning::grinning::grinning: