Root Array decoding to typealiased Array

[penland365]

Howdy, first I wanted to say thanks so much for this library - we are getting a huge amount of use out of it.

We're hitting a third party API that is returning a root array much like how you have in your test suite. Currently, we are typealiasing the plural of the Model like so:

struct Person . . . 
typealias People = [Person]

My question is, is there an easy to way to decode into this? We haven't been able to figure it out syntactically yet. For the Person type, the syntax goes like this

 if let j: AnyObject = body {
                let value = JSONValue.parse(j)
                let person = Person.decode(value)
                callback(.Success(Box(person)))
            }

We even tried giving up on the typealias People = [Person] and used a simple struct w/ one data type and the JSONDecodable extension, but I just can't quite grasp how the global decode function works - Swift 1.2 is most certainly not a fan, claiming it can't find it.

Thanks!

[tonyd256]

@penland365 Hello, What version of Argo are you using? The global decode function might not be available in your version. If it is, you should be able to decode the json into the array like so:

let people: People? = decode(j)

The decode function takes the AnyObject and returns the decoded type/types, which, in this case, is People or [Person]. If that isn't working for you, would you mind posting more code around the issue so I can see what might be wrong?

[penland365]

Hi @tonyd256 - I'm currently on Using Argo (0.4.3) according to my Podfile - what version do I need to be at?

[penland365]

Hmm, this may be a cocoa pods issue, I'm not sure - decode.swift is in the project, but Swift swears by all the compiler gods that it cannot find it. decode is the only thing I haven't been able to find however.

[gfontenot]

Can you share your podfile? ( Or at least the relevant line?)

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Hmm, this may be a cocoa pods issue, I'm not sure - decode.swift is in the project, but Swift swears by all the compiler gods that it cannot find it. decode is the only thing I haven't been able to find however.

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[penland365]

platform :ios, '8.0'
use_frameworks!

target 'jonah' do
  pod 'Argo'
end

target 'jonahTests' do
  pod 'Argo'
end

I've excluded additional pods, but that's the meat of it. That could be wrong format - I'm a Scala guy dipping in to another world here. But I do have access ( and do use ) most if not all of the operators in both JSONOperators.swift and Operators.swift

Running pod install gives Using Argo 0.4.3 (was 0.4.3)

[penland365]

A bit more information - I tried running off of master w/ the following:

platform :ios, '8.0'
use_frameworks!

target 'jonah' do
  pod 'Argo', :git => 'https://github.com/thoughtbot/Argo.git'
end

target 'jonahTests' do
  pod 'Argo', :git => 'https://github.com/thoughtbot/Argo.git'
end

In this case, I can see the decode.swift file:

The compiler is still confused however and it can't see it. Running pod install gives the version here at 0.4.2

[penland365]

To give a bit of an update, I can't compile w/ Swift 1.2 off of master, 0.4.2. I'm being told that no such module Box has been found in the file Decoded.swift

[gfontenot]

You really shouldn't be pointed at master. We'd rather you point at a specific release.

The reason you aren't finding Box is because it hasn't been added to the Podfile

[penland365]

RIP penland365, stung by a build tool.

[gfontenot]

Hahaha. Glad that helped, sorry it took so long to get there.