Generate JSON string from NSDictionary in iOS

Question

I have a dictionary I need to generate a JSON string by using dictionary. Is it possible to convert it? Can you guys please help on this?

Answer 1

In Swift, I've created the following helper function:

class func nsobjectToJSON(swiftObject: NSObject) {
    var jsonCreationError: NSError?
    let jsonData: NSData = NSJSONSerialization.dataWithJSONObject(swiftObject, options: NSJSONWritingOptions.PrettyPrinted, error: &jsonCreationError)!

    if jsonCreationError != nil {
        println("Errors: \(jsonCreationError)")
    }
    else {
        // everything is fine and we have our json stored as an NSData object. We can convert into NSString
        let strJSON : NSString =  NSString(data: jsonData, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)!
        println("\(strJSON)")
    }
}