Convert NSDictionary to Swift Dictionary

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cclloyd picture cclloyd · Jul 4, 2014 · Viewed 30.6k times · Source

Now I know that when swift compiles it just makes a NSDictionary, but the NSDictionary and Swift dictionaries have different syntax. Is there a way (through a loop or something) to convert a NSDictionary to a swift dictionary of the same type for <key, value>?

OR

Is there a way to convert this to a Swift dictionary instead of NSDictionary?

let jsonDict = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(jsonData, options: nil, error: &error) as NSDictionary

Answer

Arno van Lieshout picture Arno van Lieshout · Aug 29, 2014

use:

let jsonDic = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(jsonData, options: NSJSONReadingOptions.MutableContainers, error: &error) as Dictionary<String, AnyObject>;

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