[swift-corelibs-dev] JSONDecoder has too few opportunities. need an enhancement.

[Vladimir Kushelkov]

Hi Norio, thank you for your answer.

I’ve looked thought you library. So, basically, you took/copied the source code of JSONDecoder/JSONEncoder.
Now I’m using ObjectMapper<https://github.com/Hearst-DD/ObjectMapper>. I don’t want to replace the one with you library. I wish I could remove this dependency at all.
By the way, your library doesn’t support the decoding strategies (DateDecodingStrategy, DataDecodingStrategy, ect.)

I hope, swift team will extend JSONDecoder in the next swift update.

On 10 Nov 2017, at 02:44, Norio Nomura <norio.nomura at gmail.com<mailto:norio.nomura at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi Vladimir,

FYI, I also wanted to decode directly from NSDictionary and NSArray, so I made https://github.com/norio-nomura/ObjectEncoder.
It is a simpler implementation than JSONEncoder/JSONDecoder because it does not contain any functions to treat specific type specially.

2017-11-10 1:37 GMT+09:00 Vladimir Kushelkov via swift-corelibs-dev <swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org<mailto:swift-corelibs-dev at swift.org>>:
1. Sometimes it is contently to be able to decode a struct or an object from a Foundation object (either NSArray or NSDictionary) that produce a valid JSON.
For example, if I use a 3d party library that provides NSDictionary to me. Due to JSONDecoder decodes only from Data, in the first place I have to convert NSDictionary to Data in order to use the one so far. But the decoder does the back action first thing.
I created Pull Request<https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/12791>, that was closed.


2. Is it possible to use JSONDecoder when I don’t know the type of a particular property of the required type?
For instance, if I develop a library that allows bi-directional communication between server and client. The library wraps transmitted data into an internal object in a way that one of the object’s properties is the data. So, the type of the property is unknown inside the library. I want to decode the internal object with JSONDecoder, but I can’t specify the type of one property.


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