如何从 Swift 中的 JSON 文件中读取混合类型的数组？

Question

I am currently trying to create a movie search app in Xcode and am having trouble reading in the JSON file from IMDB's API.

API Example: https://sg.media-imdb.com/suggests/h/h.json

I can read in almost the entire file except for the image information ('i') which is stored as an array with a URL (string) and two optional ints for the dimensions.

   struct Response: Codable {
        var v: Int
        var q: String
        var d: [item]
    }
    
    struct item: Codable {
        var l: String
        var id: String
        var s: String
        var i: ??
    }

No matter what type I enter for 'i' the parse fails. I can't create an array with mixed types so I am confused how to continue.

Thanks

Answer 1

You need to do some custom decoding here. You can use the nestedUnkeyedContainer method to get the coding container for the array, and decode the array elements one by one.

Here is how you would implement Decodable :

struct Response: Decodable {
     let v: Int
     let q: String
     let d: [Item]
 }
 
struct Item: Decodable {
    let l: String
    let id: String
    let s: String
    let url: String
    let width: Int?
    let height: Int?
    
    enum CodingKeys: CodingKey {
        case l, id, s, i
    }
    
    init(from decoder: Decoder) throws {
        let container = try decoder.container(keyedBy: CodingKeys.self)
        l = try container.decode(String.self, forKey: .l)
        id = try container.decode(String.self, forKey: .id)
        s = try container.decode(String.self, forKey: .s)
        var nestedContainer = try container.nestedUnkeyedContainer(forKey: .i)
        url = try nestedContainer.decode(String.self)
        width = try nestedContainer.decodeIfPresent(Int.self)
        height = try nestedContainer.decodeIfPresent(Int.self)
    }
}

It doesn't seem like you need to conform to Encodable so I didn't include it, but the code should be similar if you ever need to.