Swift JSONSerialization.jsonObject Error - json

Question

I've looked around but I don't find an answer to fix this error that has been bugging me. I tried adding a "as! NSMutableArray" but that gave me another error. Any ideas on how to fix it? I converted my project from Objective-C to Swift, so hopefully the code is all good I had 20+ errors now I'm down to 3 errors. Thank you.
Error Message:
'jsonObject' produces 'Any', not the expected contextual result type 'NSMutableArray'
Code for retrieving data from server
// Retrieving Data from Server
func retrieveData() {
let getDataURL = "http://ip/example.org/json.php"
let url: NSURL = NSURL(string: getDataURL)!
do {
let data: NSData = try NSData(contentsOf: url as URL)
jsonArray = JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data, options: nil)
}
catch {
print("Error: (data: contentsOf: url)")
}
// Setting up dataArray
var dataArray: NSMutableArray = []
// Looping through jsonArray
for i in 0..<jsonArray.count {
// Create Data Object
let dID: String = (jsonArray[i] as AnyObject).object(forKey: "id") as! String
let dName: String = (jsonArray[i] as AnyObject).object(forKey: "dataName") as! String
let dStatus1: String = (jsonArray[i] as AnyObject).object(forKey: "dataStatus1") as! String
let dStatus2: String = (jsonArray[i] as AnyObject).object(forKey: "dataStatus2") as! String
let dURL: String = (jsonArray[i] as AnyObject).object(forKey: "dataURL") as! String
// Add Data Objects to Data Array
dataArray.add(Data(dataName: dName, andDataStatus1: dStatus1, andDataStatus2: dStatus2, andDataURL: dURL, andDataID: dID))
}
self.myTableView.reloadData()
}

Answer 1

The jsonObject function will return a value of type Any but the jsonArray's type of NSMutableArray. And this function will throw an error if something is wrong, put a try keyword before it. In my experience, let change the type of jsonArray to array of dictionary, so you will extract data with ease.
do {
let data: Data = try Data(contentsOf: url as URL)
let jsonArray: [[String: AnyObject]] = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data, options: .mutableContainers) as! [[String: AnyObject]]
print("json: \(jsonArray)")
for dict in jsonArray {
let dataName = dict["dataName"] as! String
print("dataName: \(dataName)")
}
}
catch {
print("Error: (data: contentsOf: url)")
}