My Json string is not decoding using JSONSerialization.jsonObject() - json

Question

I'm receiving a valid Json string from my HTTP request which looks like this
"[{
"id”:10,
"user_id":"77da74e6-3e03-403d-9c1a-91f231233515”,
"friend_user_id":"fc879bf5-c53d-4a4e-b3a4-dab7a8266a2r”,
"name":"Tommie Smith”,
"type":"active”,
"created_at":"2018-05-02 14:53:09",
"updated_at":"2018-05-02 14:53:09",
"friend_user":{
"id":"fc879bf5-c53d-4a4e-b3a4-dab7a8266a2r",
"first_name”:”Allen”,
"last_name”:”Williams”,
"email”:”allen.williams#example.org",
"date_of_birth":"1996-03-05 00:00:00",
"created_at":"2018-05-02 14:53:07",
"updated_at":"2018-05-02 14:53:07",
"deleted_at":null
}
},
{
"id”:11,
"user_id":"77da74e6-3e03-403d-9c1a-91f231233515”,
"friend_user_id":"96990d13-372e-46f7-9187-94988954455b”,
"name":"Mr. Thomas Atkins”,
"type":"not",
"created_at":"2018-05-02 14:53:10",
"updated_at":"2018-05-02 14:53:10",
"friend_user":{
"id":"96990d13-372e-46f7-9187-94988954455b",
"first_name”:”Trevor”,
"last_name”:”Wright”,
"email”:”trevor.wright#example.net",
"date_of_birth":"1983-07-27 00:00:00",
"created_at":"2018-05-02 14:53:08",
"updated_at":"2018-05-02 14:53:08",
"deleted_at":null
}
}]"
I know that this is what I'm receiving as I'm using the following code to return a string with my data
let string = String(data: data, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8)
However, when I use the code below to parse my data, json returns nil
let json = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data) as? [String: AnyObject]
What is wrong with this statement?

Answer 1

Please (learn to) read the JSON, it's pretty easy. There are only 2 (two!) different collection types:
{} is dictionary, in Swift [String: Any].
[] is array, in Swift [Any] but in most cases an array of dictionaries [[String: Any]].
so the JSON is clearly an array. In Swift 3+ a JSON value is never AnyObject
let json = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data) as? [[String: Any]]
Note:
The mistaken double quotes are not the error reason, otherwise jsonObject(with would throw an error