Unable to parse JSON from AFNetworking's responseObject

Question

I have read this question and trying to parse JSON from AFNetworking's responseObject in Swift but the result is always nil.

Here is excerpt from my code:

let manager = AFHTTPRequestOperationManager()

manager.requestSerializer = AFJSONRequestSerializer()
manager.responseSerializer = AFJSONResponseSerializer()
manager.requestSerializer.setAuthorizationHeaderFieldWithUsername(username, password: password)

manager.POST("endpoint-that-respond-token-in-json",
    parameters: nil,
    success: { (operation: AFHTTPRequestOperation!, responseObject: AnyObject!) in
        println(responseObject.description) // { token = "bd8f26da-219a-4a88-be80-b09207dfc067"; }

        var x: NSString = responseObject.description

        var error: NSError?
        var data = x.JSONString().dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)
        println(data) // <227b5c6e 20202020 746f6b65 6e203d20 5c226539 35613462 36642d38 6361612d 34343537 2d623937 612d3330 63613236 62316338 34315c22 3b5c6e7d 22>

        var dataString = NSString(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)
        println(dataString) // "{\n    token = \"e95a4b6d-8caa-4457-b97a-30ca26b1c841\";\n}"


        var json = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data, options: NSJSONReadingOptions.MutableContainers, error: &error) as NSDictionary!
        println(json) // nil
    },
        failure: { (operation: AFHTTPRequestOperation!, error: NSError!) in
        println(error)
    })

N.B.

var json = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data, options: NSJSONReadingOptions.MutableContainers, error: &error) as NSDictionary // without "!" I will get EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION at run time.

Answer 1

You can cast the responseObject to dictionary

for example

manager.POST("endpoint-that-respond-token-in-json",
parameters: nil,
success: { (operation: AFHTTPRequestOperation!, responseObject: AnyObject!) in
    println(responseObject.description) // { token = "bd8f26da-219a-4a88-be80-b09207dfc067"; }

    let responseDict = response as Dictionary<String, AnyObject>
    var token = responseDict["token"] as String!
    println(token)

},
    failure: { (operation: AFHTTPRequestOperation!, error: NSError!) in
})

p.s. the value return from dictionary always be optional

EDIT: After Xcode6 beta2 release, above code doest not work anymore. Need to cast it to AnyObject first then cast to string

let token : String? = (responseDict["token"] as AnyObject?) as? String