Question

I am working on an iPhone app which involves using json-framework.I am getting array using NSURL

[{"firstName":"X","lastName":"Y","id":1},{"firstName":"A","lastName":"B","id":2}]

How can i get these 2 objects as like if i query for id=1, the O/P is

id=1
firstName:X
lastName:Y

and putting it in a table.
I am googling the stuff from many days but didn’t get any solution.
Please help me out , explanation through code is appreciated.

Thank You.

Answer 1

If your target SDK is ios4 or higher, you can use this project

https://github.com/stig/json-framework/

Once you add the source to your project, just

#import "SBJson.h"

and convert your Json string as follows

jsonResponse = [string JSONValue];

The method will fail if you don’t have the full Json array in your string, but you can keep appending strings until it doesn’t fail

To follow up for codejunkie’s request below
you can assume in your data structure that the jsonResponse is an NSArray
In other implementations take care to test the response for NSArray or NSDictionary

NSArray * myPeople = [string JSONValue]; 
NSMutableDictionary * organizedData = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
for (NSDictionary * p in myPeople) {
    [organizedData setValue:p forKey:[p valueForKey:@"id"]];
}
    // now you can query for an id like so
    // [organizedData valueForKey:@"1"]; and your output will be what you wanted from the original question
    // just don't forget to release organizedData when you are done with it