[swift-corelibs-dev] NSJSONSerialization and bridging

[Tony Parker]

Hi Ian,

We haven’t really made any progress in this area, unfortunately.

It would be awesome if someone could take up the banner of getting bridging to work on non-ObjC platforms. That would make this performance problem on Linux significantly less burdensome.

- Tony

> On Mar 4, 2016, at 9:24 AM, Ian Partridge via swift-corelibs-dev <swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi, I've been reviewing the current status of NSJSONSerialization.
> 
> There is an implementation of JSONObjectWithData() and some tests, but
> dataWithJSONObject() is unimplemented.
> 
> One thing I noticed is that the signature of JSONObjectWithData() has
> been modified so it returns Any instead of AnyObject.  I guess this is
> to allow bridging to stdlib types like Dictionary and Array?
> 
> Should a future implementation of dataWithJSONObject() accept Any
> instead of AnyObject to match?  What are the consequences for
> compatibility with existing code that uses NSJSONSerialization?
> 
> Finally, is there any progress to report on the bridging issue?  The
> lack of bridging between stdlib and Foundation types on Linux is a
> pain point at the moment.
> 
> Thanks for your time!
> 
> -- 
> Ian Partridge
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