I toyed with doing something very similar for plists that might be of interest:
https://github.com/mikeabdullah/KSPropertyListEncoder On 8 Aug 2011, at 17:56, Jens Alfke wrote: > Been thinking about archiving NSObjects to/from JSON, using an API similar to > NSCoding. I haven’t found any prior art, but I thought I’d ask here. > > I am not talking about serializing JSON to/from collection objects a la > TouchJSON, JSONKit, etc.; rather, something that lets you convert your custom > model objects into JSON and back. And I want it to be clean JSON, so that you > can use this API to unarchive JSON created by any of the zillions of web APIs > that generate it. > > It’s tempting to try to do this using the existing NSArchiving protocol and > writing a custom NSKeyed[Un]Archiver subclass. This doesn’t work, at least > for my purposes, because JSON has a limited set of data types and I don’t > want to clutter up the output with extra type annotations. For example, say > the JSON contains a date. JSON doesn’t have a date type, so the convention is > to represent the date as a string in ISO-8661 format. But calling > -decodeObjectForKey: will return an NSString instead of an NSDate. To get > around this you have to add methods like -decodeDateForKey: that make it more > clear what you’re expecting. (The same goes for other common value classes > like NSData.) > > —Jens_______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/cocoadev%40mikeabdullah.net > > This email sent to cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
