Parsing JSON Array in iOS with JSONKit - array with no tag for ObjectForKey?

Question

I am trying to parse a JSON array returned by a RESTful web API that looks similiar to the following (using JSONKit):

[ { "DateCreated" : "/Date(1320296400000)/",
    "ID" : 1,
    "Summary" : "Summary 1",
    "Title" : "Title 1",
    "URL" : "URL 1"
  },
  { "DateCreated" : "/Date(1320296400000)/",
    "ID" : 2,
    "Summary" : "Summary 2",
    "Title" : "Title 2",
    "URL" : "URL 2"
  }
]

The JSON I have worked with the the past usually had a parent element, for example news:{{node1},{node2}}, that would allow me to extract that node from the JSON response, like this:

NSString *response = [request responseString];
NSDictionary *deserializedData = [response objectFromJSONString];
NSArray *arrNews = [deserializedData objectForKey:@"news"];

In my JSON, no such node exists, it is simply a raw array. How do I go about pulling this into an NSArray (or something I can hook into a UITableView)?

Answer 1

From the looks of your JSON data, it looks like your deserializedData should already be a JKArray filled with JKDictionary objects.

Have you tried accessing it like an array ?

for (NSDictionary * dataDict in deserializedData) {
    NSString * timeStamp = [dataDict objectForKey:@"DateCreated"];
    // and so on
}

This should loop you through every single element in the JSON data.