Parse nested elements in JSON - json

Question

I couldn't seem to parse the following json:
["data": {
companies = (
);
"login_status" = success;
"rs_customer" = {
id = "<null>";
name = "<null>";
status = "<null>";
};
user = {
email = "email#email.com";
id = 0;
lastlogin = "06/14/16 12:44 am";
name = "Jayson Tamayo";
password = mypassword;
phone = "112345";
};
}, "status": success]
I retrieve that JSON thru:
HTTPGetJSON("http://myurl.com") {
(data: Dictionary<String, AnyObject>, error: String?) -> Void in
if error != nil {
print(error)
} else {
print(data)
let status = data["status"] as? String
print(status)
}
}
When I print the "status" it works. But when I try to use data["name"] I get nil. I also tried data["data"]["name"] but I also get nil.

Answer 1

Your main object is a dictionary.
In the "data" key, there's several values: "companies" is an array, "rs_customer" is a dictionary, the statuses are Strings and "user" is a dictionary.
So, to get the user, you would just have to cast to the proper types, something like this, if data is the object we see in the question:
if let content = data["data"] as? [String:AnyObject] {
if let user = content["user"] as? [String:AnyObject] {
if let name = user["name"] as? String {
print(name)
}
}
}
You can also chain the unwrapping for simpler code:
if let content = data["data"] as? [String:AnyObject],
user = content["user"] as? [String:AnyObject],
name = user["name"] as? String {
print(name)
}