Source Code to the Parsing JSON Blog Posts:
- Part 1
- Part 2
Follow along from the tags:
- 01-happiest-of-paths - The initial code of parsing JSON. Adding tests.
- 02-handle-error-message - Handling error message JSON object. Adding tests.
- 03-error-handling-height-key - Handling some more errors. Adding tests.
- 04-refactor-into-methods - Refactor code into separate methods.
- 05-convert-most-methods-into-using-mappers - Refactor into classes.
- 06-full-refactor-to-one-protocol - More aggressive refactors into classes.
- 07-adding-optional-elements-for-arrays - Added support for optional mapping.
To setup, clone this repo:
git clone https://github.com/jeffh/ParsingJSON.git
JSON parsing that is common in Objective-C is actually a Data Mapping problem. The articles cover formulating the problem and building an abstraction to try and maximize the code reuse.
Note: If you just want a library to use, the writing is all based off of the Hydrant project. This isn't intended for production use
To verify my work (and prevent sleepless nights), the code here is tested. They use the Cedar testing framework. Using ⌘-U will run the tests. The fact that this project is a static library is merely a random choice.
The end result of the series is a single Mapper protocol which individual
mappers conform to. Each class solves a small part of the bigger problem,
which allows composition and code reused with little assumption of other
followers of the protocol.
This design, while more verbose, can cover more scenarios that is harder to do with a single-object API and allows developers the same flexibility of extending this code for more special cases. An example is optionally dropping bad JSON objects inside an array.
Those with a keen eye may notice that the overall structure is a more immutable and functional design. The object-oriented syntax does significantly balloon the code size which most functional programming languages minimize.