Question

I want to get data from my Sqlite database and put it into this JSON file.

How can I create a json file and insert the data obtained from my database into the JSON file?

I want data in JSON file in this format:

{

"data": [
    {
        "data": [
            null,
            null,
            30,
            45,
            69,
            70,
            65
        ],
        "title": "title5" 
    },
    {
        "data": [
            null,
            5,
            10,
            15,
            22,
            30 
        ],
        "title": "title4" 
    },
    {
        "data": [
            40,
            55,
        ],
        "title": "title3" 
    },
    {
          "data": [
              null,
            89,
            90,
            85
        ],
        "title": "title2" 
    },
    {
        "data": [
            66,
            77,
            55,
            33,
            50,
            -6,
            -8
        ],
        "title": "title1" 
    } 
],
 "x_labels": [
    6,
    7,
    8,
    9,
    10,
    11,
    12
]
}

How can I do this?

Answer 1

Create Obj C object reading data from your sqlite database. Say

@interface Data:NSObject {
  NSArray *data;
  NSString *title;
}

NSArray *dataArray; // array of data filled with all Data object read from database.

1. Use JSON Framework to convert all data to JSON string. Notice that for the Data object, you have to override the proxyForJson method, since its a user defined object.

You can make a JSON string from an object ,

SBJsonWriter *writer = [SBJsonWriter new];
NSString *jsonString = [writer stringWithObject:dataArray];
[writer release];

I am not sure if it works directly for array, if not, encapsulate your dataArray in anotherObject, and send that object to this JSON writer.

Write the JSON string to a file.

 [jsonString writeToFile:path atomically:YES encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding 
             error:nil]