[swift-users] Decode a JSON object of unknown format into a Dictionary with Decodable in Swift 4

[Jon Shier]

	I’m sorry, are you complaining about my use of Codable instead of more precisely referring to the JSON endcode/decode functionality based on it in Foundation, or are you honestly trying to say that said functionality was never intended to be a general purpose JSON solution? If it’s not actually intended to handle all JSON you should probably call it something else.


Jon

> On Jun 22, 2017, at 9:42 PM, Greg Parker <gparker at apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Jun 22, 2017, at 6:00 PM, Jon Shier via swift-users <swift-users at swift.org <mailto:swift-users at swift.org>> wrote:
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>> 	My main concern here is that, as Swift’s official JSON parsing method, Codable should be able to handle any JSON representation and use and it doesn’t.
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> Is this true? Is Codable intended to be Swift's official JSON parsing system? Is Codable intended to be a general-purpose JSON parsing system? 
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> My understanding was that Codable was designed to serialize Swift types, not to be able to import arbitrary JSON text into Swift nor to interoperate with every existing JSON API.
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> Greg Parker     gparker at apple.com <mailto:gparker at apple.com>     Runtime Wrangler
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