ODX.Serialization 1.6.1

You want to add pod 'ODX.Serialization', '~> 1.6' similar to the following to your Podfile:

target 'MyApp' do
  pod 'ODX.Serialization', '~> 1.6'
end

Then run a pod install inside your terminal, or from CocoaPods.app.

Alternatively to give it a test run, run the command:

pod try ODX.Serialization


Depends on:
ODX.Core	~> 1.5
ODObjCRuntime	~> 1.1

ODX.Serialization 1.6.1

By
Alexey Nazaroff

This library is deprecated, it is recommended you look at ODSerialization.

ODX.Serialization is utility classes for serialization and deserialization Objective-C objects. It can be used together with NSJSONSerialization or XMLDictionary, FMDB, etc.

Usage

Serialization

^{(NSObject+ODSerialization)}

<NSObject> -(id)od_serialize;

Converts any object to NSDictionary or NSArray with NSStrings, NSNumbers and NSNulls. After this new object can be converted to JSON string.

Deserialization

^{(NSObject+ODDeserialization)}

<NSObject> +od_constructWithObject:(NSObject *)srcObj error:(NSError **)error;

Create object of current class from NSDictionary. Using that it's possible to convert json string to model object.

Example

Let's create our model class:

@interface Obj : NSObject <ODDataObject>
@property (nonatomic, copy) NSString *title;
@property (nonatomic, assign) NSInteger count;
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSArray<Obj *> *items;
@end

@implementation Obj

// We implement ODDataObject protocol's method for specify class of object in `items` array
+ (Class)classOfIvarWithName:(NSString *)ivarName {
    if ([ivarName isEqualToString:@"_items"]) return Obj.class;
    return nil;
}

@end

Now, if we fill object and perform od_serialize method:

Obj *o = [Obj new];
o.title = @"Title";
o.count = 10;
o.items = @[[Obj new], [Obj new]];

NSLog(%"@", o.od_serialize);
/*
{
   count = 10;
   items = (
       {
           count = 0;
           items = "<null>";
           title = "<null>";
       },
       {
           count = 0;
           items = "<null>";
           title = "<null>";
       }
   );
   title = Title;
}
*/

NSLog(@"%@", [[NSString alloc] initWithData:[NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:o.od_serialize
                                                                            options:0 error:nil]
                                                                            encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]);
// {"title":"Title","count":10,"items":[{"title":null,"count":0,"items":null},{"title":null,"count":0,"items":null}]}

Deserialization.

NSString *jsonString = @"{\"title\":\"Title\",\"count\":10,\"items\":[{\"title\":null,\"count\":0,\"items\":null},{\"title\":null,\"count\":0,\"items\":null}]}";
NSDictionary *jsonDict = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:[jsonString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] options:0 error:nil];
Obj *obj = [Obj od_constructWithObject:obj error:nil];

Installation

Manual

For build ODX.Serialization as library you need to put ODObjcRuntime and ODX.Core projects in the same directory

Author

Alexey Nazaroff, [email protected]

License

ODX.Serialization is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.