Use of camelCased properties importing from JSON

[michalkos]

My model in Swift has property named isPromo.
In JSON, this property is named is_promo and this throws an exception when importing with createInDefaultRealmWithObject

Is there some way how to import this without changing the JSON dictionary?
It would be nice to have some function in model where we could define this transforms. Also if we have different property names in models.

For example something like this:

class MyModel: RLMObject {
    dynamic var isPromo = false
    dynamic var productDescription = ""

    override class func importPropertyNames() -> [String : String] {
        return [ "is_promo" : "isPromo", "description" : "productDescription" ]
    }

[yoshyosh]

Hi Michal I believe you need to have to exact names in your model and JSON response to map them with the createInDefaultRealmWithObject method. We are actively working on a way to make this much easier. For now using something like https://github.com/Mantle/Mantle is recommended to remap any property names and types. Then passing the mantleObject to the createInDefaultRealmWithObject method

[yoshyosh]

Here is a library that someone in the community made that does just this https://github.com/matthewcheok/Realm-JSON

We are working on something similar in the near future

[pizthewiz]

Another option for those in need, ObjectMapper which is Mantle-like in that it allows serialization to and from JSON and has property transformers, but perhaps a bit more lean.

[yoshyosh]

Incase someone else comes across this, another person had issues using ObjectMapper #1726

[timanglade]

Closing as duplicate of #694