I am converting an Array of NSDictionaries to JSON data with the following...
Create my data...
NSMutableArray *arrayOfDicts = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
@"MySong", @"title",
@"MyArtist", @"artist",
nil];
[arrayOfDicts addObject:dict];
}
NSArray *info = [NSArray arrayWithArray:arrayOfDicts];
NSData* jsonData = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:info
options:NSJSONWritingPrettyPrinted error:&error];
then send like so...
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.mywebsite.com/index.php"];
ASIFormDataRequest *request = [ASIFormDataRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request setPostValue:jsonData forKey:@"songs"];
[request setDelegate:self];
request.tag = TAG_LOAD_SONGS;
[request startAsynchronous];
This is sending the NSData to my server, but how do I then use it in php... Its really just a bunch of random numbers if I print it from my server, and I have tried using json_encode but I dont think thats meant for raw data...
Any help would be great!
EDIT: Here is the Response of php...
echo $_POST['songs'];
<5b0a2020 7b0a2020 20202274 69746c65 22203a20 224d7953 6f6e6722 2c0a2020 20202261 72746973 7422203a 20224d79 41727469 7374220a 20207d2c 0a20207b 0a202020 20227469 746c6522 203a2022 4d79536f 6e67222c 0a202020 20226172 74697374 22203a20 224d7941 72746973 74220a20 207d0a5d>
Here is the response to NSLoging in Xcode...
NSLog(@"Info: %@", info);
Info: ( { artist = MyArtist; title = MySong; }, { artist = MyArtist; title = MySong; } )
Turns out I needed to do it like this:
To Create My data:
NSMutableArray *arrayOfDicts = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
NSDictionary *dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
@"MySong", @"title",
@"MyArtist", @"artist",
nil];
[arrayOfDicts addObject:dict];
}
NSArray *info = [NSArray arrayWithArray:arrayOfDicts];
And Sent it like this:
NSData *jsonData = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:info
options:NSJSONWritingPrettyPrinted error:&error];
NSString *jsonString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:jsonData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
// Start request
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.mywebsite.com/index.php"];
ASIFormDataRequest *request = [ASIFormDataRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request setPostValue:jsonString forKey:@"songs"];
[request setDelegate:self];
[request startAsynchronous];
The key was to convert the info to NSData
, then to a JSON String which I sent to my server, not just sending the raw NSData
.
Thanks everyone for the help!