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iOS Build a Weather App with Swift (Retired) Pulling Data From the Web JavaScript Object Notation

Paul Yorde
Paul Yorde
10,497 Points
Posted by Paul Yorde
Paul Yorde
10,497 Points

Why am I getting something other than JSON from my API response?

Instead of using the weather API, I am using a movie database API. I am getting back a response, however I am getting something that isn't JSON. According to their API, they only support JSON, and since this video is using JSONSerialization, I'm at a loss as to why the response isn't in JSON format.

The Response:

{
    adult = 0;
    "backdrop_path" = "<null>";
    "belongs_to_collection" = "<null>";
    budget = 0;
    genres =     (
    );
    homepage = "<null>";
    id = 299076;
    "imdb_id" = tt0091345;
    "original_title" = "King of Sex";
    overview = "<null>";
    popularity = 0;
    "poster_path" = "<null>";
    "production_companies" =     (
    );
    "production_countries" =     (
                {
            "iso_3166_1" = US;
            name = "United States of America";
        }
    );
    "release_date" = "1986-01-01";
    revenue = 0;
    runtime = "<null>";
    "spoken_languages" =     (
                {
            "iso_639_1" = en;
            name = English;
        }
    );
    status = Released;
    tagline = "<null>";
    title = "King of Sex";
    "vote_average" = 0;
    "vote_count" = 0;
}

3 Answers

Paul Yorde
Paul Yorde
10,497 Points
Paul Yorde
Paul Yorde
10,497 Points

Well, it looks a lot like JSON, and it may be. However, from what I've found in documentation, JSON doesn't use parentheses, or semi-colons as the code above is doing. JSON would use curly braces for objects, square brackets for arrays and commas as the delimiter.

sunil prakash
sunil prakash
4,323 Points
sunil prakash
sunil prakash
4,323 Points

the above response is surely not JSON, = , () or ; are not part of JSON data.

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points

To a semi-trained eye, that response does, in fact, appear to be JSON. The problem must be somewhere in your code. I'm not experienced enough in Swift to help you out, but if you post your code, I'm sure someone around here will be