Swift nested JSON Objects not decoding - json

Question

I'm trying to decode an array of nested objects within Swift and it's not working. The nested objects are of the same type which I'm using Realm to store the values and look like:
struct myObject: Codable {
var name: String?
let otherObjects = List<myObject>()
var events: [String]?
...
if let objects = try container.decodeIfPresent([myObject].self, forKey: .otherObjects) {
otherObjects.append(objectsIn: objects)
}
}
Decoder Function - This works for all other fields inside the object at top level including events which is an array of String.
static func decodeResponse<T:Codable>(_ response : Any?) -> T? {
if let response = response, let dict = response as? [String:Any] {
var dictionaryToParse = dict
var arrayToParse: [[String:Any]]?
if let dataObject = dict["data"] as? [String:Any] {
//sometimes the response has an outer "data" OBJECT
dictionaryToParse = dataObject
} else if let dataArray = dict["data"] as? [[String:Any]] {
//sometimes the response has an outer "data" ARRAY
arrayToParse = dataArray
}
do {
guard let data = try? JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: arrayToParse ?? dictionaryToParse, options: []) else { return nil }
let obj = try JSONDecoder().decode(T.self, from: data)
print("DECODE: \(obj)")
return obj
}
catch let error {
print("ERROR: (decodeResponse): \(error)")
return nil
}
}
return nil
}
The coding keys map as they're the same type and nothing gets outputted as an error.