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Codable

A collection of 5 posts

Using Codable Protocol in iOS to Decode Complex JSON Objects

A while back, I wrote a blog post about using Codable to encode/decode JSON payload while sending to or receiving from the server. However, I often find myself in situations where having straightforward examples with a single complex JSON is easier to understand how I can use it for

Codable - Applying Data Transformations

Codable may not just all be blindly transforming JSON data into model objects, but you can also apply formatting to it. Examples of formatters include, but not limited to date formatters, URLs, and fractional data types. In this post we're going to take a look at some of those formatters

Codable - Dealing with built-in and custom `keyDecodingStrategy`

Apple introduced a keyDecodingStrategy parameter as a part of Swift 4.1 release. Although it's been out for a while, it's a huge change. We have many instances where server and mobile apps differ the way in which they represent incoming data. In most cases apps rely on camelCase notations

Using Codable Protocol in Swift 4.1

Swift 4 Codable protocol to decode and encode json data and model objects. Explained with examples.

Swift 4.1 feature - keyEncoding/keyDecoding strategy

Can't believe it's been 3 and half years but I still didn't run a single Swift program over command line. However, that is no longer going to happen. The occasion is an unreleased Swift version 4.1 (As of 02/14/2018) and my desire to try out new cool