aerogear-ios-jsonsz

NOTE: The library has been tested with Xcode 6.3

Serialize ‘Swift’ objects back-forth from their JSON representation the 'easy way’.

Example usage

Here is a typical example usage:

class Contact : JSONSerializable {
    var first: String?  
    var last: String?   
    var addr: Address?

    required init() {}

    class func map(source: JsonSZ, object: Contact) {
        object.first <= source["first"]
        object.last <= source["last"]
        object.addr <= source["addr"]
    }
}

class Address: JSONSerializable {

    var street: String?
    var poBox: Int?
    var city: String?
    var country: String?

    var arr:[String]

    required init() {}

    class func map(source: JsonSZ, object: Address) {
        object.street <= source["street"]
        object.poBox <= source["poBox"]
        object.city <= source["city"]
        object.country <= source["country"]
    }
}

// construct object
let address =  Address()
address.street = "Street"
address.poBox = 100
address.city="New York"
address.country = "US"

let user = User()
user.first = "John"
user.last = "Doe"
// assign Address to User
user.addr = address

// initialize serializer
let serializer = JsonSZ()

// serialize ToJSON
let JSON = serializer.toJSON(user)
// ..send json to server

// serialize fromJSON
let user = serializer.fromJSON(JSON, to:User.self)

// user now should be initialized
println(user.first!)
...

As long as your model object implements the JSONSerializable protocol and its required methods of init and map, the JsonSZ class should be able to serialize and deserialize your objects to JSON. The library supports all the primitive types including arrays and dictionaries plus relationship between the objects (as shown by the User, Address example above). Head over to our unit tests for more examples usage.

Give it a go and let us know if it does help you on your projects!

Last, we would like to give appreciation and credit to the existing serialization libraries of ObjectMapper and SwiftMapper for giving us an initial bootstrap and ideas to base our development of this library. Thank you guys!

Adding the library to your project

To add the library in your project, you can either use Cocoapods or manual install in your project. See the respective sections below for instructions:

Using Cocoapods

Support for Swift frameworks is supported from CocoaPods-0.36 release upwards. In your Podfile add:

pod 'AeroGearJsonSZ'

and then:

pod install

to install your dependencies

Manual Installation

Follow these steps to add the library in your Swift project:

1. Add AeroGearJsonSZ as a submodule in your project. Open a terminal and navigate to your project directory. Then enter: bash git submodule add https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-ios-jsonsz.git
2. Open the aerogear-ios-jsonsz folder, and drag the AeroGearJsonSZ.xcodeproj into the file navigator in Xcode.
3. In Xcode select your application target and under the Targets heading section, ensure that the 'iOS Deployment Target’ matches the application target of AeroGearJsonSZ.framework (Currently set to 8.0).
4. Select the Build Phases heading section, expand the Target Dependencies group and add AeroGearJsonSZ.framework.
5. Click on the + button at the top left of the panel and select New Copy Files Phase. Rename this new phase to Copy Frameworks, set the Destination to Frameworks, and add AeroGearJsonSZ.framework.

Documentation

For more details about the current release, please consult our documentation.

Development

If you would like to help develop AeroGear you can join our developer’s mailing list, join #aerogear on Freenode, or shout at us on Twitter @aerogears.

Also takes some time and skim the contributor guide

Questions?

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Found a bug?

If you found a bug please create a ticket for us on Jira with some steps to reproduce it.