Parsing JSON in iOS, inner dictionaries

Question

I am new to JSON and iOS, I have some json data that I want to load into an array, This is the json data

 {
  "items": [
         {
         "name": "abc",
         "description": "cheeseburger",
         },
         {
         "name": "def",
         "description": "ostrichburger",
         },
         {
         "name": "zxc",
         "description": "sh1tjustgotreal",
         },
         {
         "name": "scfs",
         "description": "mylifeforaiur",
         }
         ]
  }

Now I keep on getting dictionaries with dictionaries? Why is that?

On another note, If I can modify the structure of this json cos I really just want to access the inner nodes ( abc, def ) what would I change in it to make it simpler for me and others to use it? Can I get rid of the "items" node?

You have a dictionary that contains a single key who's value is an array of dictionaries. That's why. — Abizern, Jun 11 '13 at 02:23
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15180036/putting-json-into-an-array/15181743#15181743 — LE SANG, Jun 11 '13 at 02:32

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 11 '13 at 02:28

When the data on the sender's end is structured as a collection of named fields, you get back a dictionary for each group of named fields. In this particular case, it looks like the outermost object has one field, which is a collection (i.e. a list or an array) of objects that each have a name and description. In other words, the sender sends you something like this:

@interface Item
@property (readwrite, copy) NSString* name;
@property (readwrite, copy) NSString* description;
@end

@interface MyObject
// This array contains objects of type Item
@property (readwrite) NSArray *items;
@end

Parsing JSON in iOS, inner dictionaries

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