Parse JSON in Objective-C

Question

I am new to Objective-C, and JSON so I am confused on how to do this. I have looked up tutorials, and made sure my JSON is valid.

I have a SQL server database that I am trying to access by parsing JSON. I have checked to make sure my JSON is valid. Whenever I attempt to parse the JSON is Objective-C, however, it always returns null.

Here is my JSON:

[
{
    "ID": 1,
    "Username": "Cray",
    "Password": "fake",
    "Active": 0,
    "LastLogin": null
}
]

Here is my Objective-C code:

NSString *urlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://quacknasty.com/service.php"];

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlString];

NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];

NSError *error;

NSMutableDictionary *json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:kNilOptions error:&error];

NSLog(@"test%@", json);

json always returns null when I do the NSLog

You see that parm called "error". It has a purpose. if the result from NSJSONSerialization is nil, use NSLog to print out "error": NSLog(@"JSON error = %@", error); — Hot Licks
– Hot Licks, Commented Jul 24, 2014 at 1:06
I tried to access: quacknasty.com/service.php using Google Chrome browser, it returned an empty []. Are you sure your server returns some JSON? By the way, in the above code, your urlString is redundant, you can simply put [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://....."]; instead of [NSURL URLWithString:urlString]; since your urlString variable can be reduced to a string literal @"http://...."; — Zhang
– Zhang, Commented Jul 24, 2014 at 5:20
@Zhang: Technically [] is absolutely valid JSON! He did change his server code since yesterday, see my answer, there is the original API response. @user3871044: Did my answer solve your problems? Then please remember to accept :) — Julian F. Weinert
– Julian F. Weinert, Commented Jul 24, 2014 at 9:50

Julian F. Weinert · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-19 13:50:31Z

3

Easy one: Open the URL in a browser. You will see that you don't have valid JSON:

Conneection established. 
[{"ID":1,"Username":"Cray","Password":"fake","Active":0,"LastLogin":null}]

You have to remove the echo of Connection established.\n

EDIT I: You have to use NSArray as root object, because the JSON string starts with []

EDIT II: Additionally you should set the correct HTTP Header fields as follows:

header('Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8');

edited Aug 19, 2014 at 13:50

answered Jul 24, 2014 at 1:07

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larva · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-24 01:09:49Z

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Request to thi URL. Response is :

Conneection established. 
<br />[{"ID":1,"Username":"Cray","Password":"fake","Active":0,"LastLogin":null}]

It's not json format

answered Jul 24, 2014 at 1:09

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