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Here is my json from my php page. Is this an Arrary of Dictionaries or just A dictionary with a keys and Dictionaries inside those keys? I think it is the second option but I am not sure because I was getting conflicting options. Also would the structure change once it shows in the xcode debugger?

{
    "slots": {
        "2012-08-31 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles": [
            {
                "isPending": false,
                "isReservable": true,
                "isReserved": false,
                "label": " ",
                "begin": "2012-08-30 17:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-08-30 17:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
            },
            {
                "isPending": false,
                "isReservable": true,
                "isReserved": false,
                "label": " ",
                "begin": "2012-08-30 17:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-08-30 18:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
            },
            {
                "isPending": false,
                "isReservable": false,
                "isReserved": false,
                "label": " ",
                "begin": "2012-08-30 18:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-08-31 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
            },
            {
                "isPending": false,
                "isReservable": false,
                "isReserved": false,
                "label": " ",
                "begin": "2012-08-31 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-08-31 08:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
            },
            {
                "isPending": false,
                "isReservable": true,
                "isReserved": false,
                "label": " ",
                "begin": "2012-08-31 08:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-08-31 08:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
            },
            {
                "isPending": false,
                "isReservable": true,
                "isReserved": false,
                "label": " ",
                "begin": "2012-08-31 08:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-08-31 09:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
            },
            {
                "isPending": false,
                "isReservable": true,
                "isReserved": false,
                "label": " ",
                "begin": "2012-08-31 09:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-08-31 09:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
            },
            {
                "isPending": false,
                "isReservable": true,
                "isReserved": false,
                "label": " ",
                "begin": "2012-08-31 09:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-08-31 10:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
            },
            {
                "isPending": false,
                "isReservable": false,
                "isReserved": true,
                "label": "Joe Smith",
                "begin": "2012-08-31 10:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-08-31 12:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 5
            },
            {
                "isPending": false,
                "isReservable": true,
                "isReserved": false,
                "label": " ",
                "begin": "2012-08-31 12:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-08-31 13:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
            },
            {
                "isPending": false,
                "isReservable": true,
                "isReserved": false,
                "label": " ",
                "begin": "2012-08-31 13:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-08-31 13:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
            },
            {
                "isPending": false,
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                "isReserved": false,
                "label": " ",
                "begin": "2012-08-31 13:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-08-31 14:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
            },
            {
                "isPending": false,
                "isReservable": true,
                "isReserved": false,
                "label": " ",
                "begin": "2012-08-31 14:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-08-31 14:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
            },
            {
                "isPending": false,
                "isReservable": true,
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                "begin": "2012-08-31 14:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-08-31 15:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
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            {
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                "begin": "2012-08-31 15:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-08-31 15:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
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            {
                "isPending": false,
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                "isReserved": false,
                "label": " ",
                "begin": "2012-08-31 15:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-08-31 16:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
            },
            {
                "isPending": false,
                "isReservable": true,
                "isReserved": false,
                "label": " ",
                "begin": "2012-08-31 16:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
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            {
                "isPending": false,
                "isReservable": true,
                "isReserved": false,
                "label": " ",
                "begin": "2012-08-31 17:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-08-31 17:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
            },
            {
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                "begin": "2012-08-31 17:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
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            {
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                "end": "2012-09-01 14:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
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            {
                "isPending": false,
                "isReservable": true,
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                "label": " ",
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                "span": 1
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            {
                "isPending": false,
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                "label": " ",
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                "end": "2012-09-01 15:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
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            {
                "isPending": false,
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                "label": " ",
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                "end": "2012-09-01 15:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
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            {
                "isPending": false,
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                "label": " ",
                "begin": "2012-09-01 15:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-09-01 16:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
            },
            {
                "isPending": false,
                "isReservable": true,
                "isReserved": false,
                "label": " ",
                "begin": "2012-09-01 16:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-09-01 16:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "span": 1
            },
            {
                "isPending": false,
                "isReservable": true,
                "isReserved": false,
                "label": " ",
                "begin": "2012-09-01 16:30:00 America/Los_Angeles",
                "end": "2012-09-01 17:00:00 America/Los_Angeles",
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        ]
    }
TIDev
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5 Answers5

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Take a look here: http://www.json.org/

Basically you have a dictionary slots that has multiple objects inside. The keys look to be things that look like this 2012-08-31 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles. Those keys contain arrays of dictionaries.

James Paolantonio
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The best thing you can do is just try it out! You will lose less time than asking here! Anyway, you have:

 - dictionary, with a "slot" key that has an associated value:
    - dictionary, with a "2012-08-31 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles" key that that has an associated value:
       - array, containing objects:
          - dictionary1
          - dictionary2
          - ....

So, for example, to access the isPending attribute of the second element:

[[[[dict objectForKey:@"slot"] objectForKey:@"2012-08-31 00:00:00 America/Los_Angeles"] objectAtIndex:1] valueForKey:@"isPending"];
Darren
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Angel G. Olloqui
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The [ and ] around the dictionaries seems to suggest it's an array of dictionaries.

Or rather, an Array inside a Dictionary inside a Dictionary. The first paragraph only addresses the innermost structures.

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You may find it useful to debug using NSLog here.

Assuming you want to find out if you class is an NSArray, Dictionary or another class. Once you passed the JSON data. To see what you get back just log it out.

[NSLog(@" JSON data is kind of class %@", [NSStringFromClass([jsonData Class]);

This will tell you what class you json data is.

You can also use the same method to acertain if the next item is a dictionary or an array like this

[NSLog(@" JSON data is kind of class %@",  [NSStringFromClass([[jsonData objectAtIndex:i]Class]);

But purely from observation I would say you have a Dictionary of Dictionaries of Arrays of Dictionaries

AppHandwerker
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  • Correct, slots is dictionary, keys is NSArray, now I have to go into each day dictionary- objectAtIndex:i says undeclared variable – TIDev Aug 31 '12 at 15:02
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Here is how I did it.

for (NSString *slotKey in myslots.allKeys) {
    NSDictionary *slot = [myslots valueForKey:slotKey];
        NSArray *tests = [myslots objectForKey:slotKey];
    for (NSDictionary *myDict in tests){
        NSLog(@"%@", [myDict objectForKey:@"begin"]); 
    }
    }
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