如何将Realm对象转换为嵌套NSDate属性的JSON?

问题描述:

我有一个嵌套的Realm对象,在嵌套对象中有多个嵌套的NSDate属性。我正在使用this answer将嵌套的Realm对象转换为NSDictionary,但我不知道如何将该NSDictionary转换为实际的JSON。如何将Realm对象转换为嵌套NSDate属性的JSON?

当我使用NSJSONSerialization.dataWithJSONObject(),我得到的错误:'Invalid type in JSON write (__NSTaggedDate)'

据我了解,我必须先将NSDate属性转换为NSString。问题是我不知道如何进入深度嵌套的对象来做到这一点。

此代码生成'Invalid type in JSON write (__NSTaggedDate)'错误:

let exercises = realm.objects(ExerciseProgram).first 

    let dic = exercises!.toDictionary() 

    do { 
     if let postData: NSData = try NSJSONSerialization.dataWithJSONObject(dic, options: NSJSONWritingOptions.PrettyPrinted) { 
      let json = NSString(data: postData, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)! as String 
      print(json) 
     } 

    } catch let error as NSError { 
     print(error) 

我的物体的简化版本:

final class ExerciseProgram: Object { 

    dynamic var name: String = "" 
    dynamic var startDate = NSDate() 
    dynamic var userProfile: User? 
    var program = List<Exercise>() 

} 

final class Exercise: Object { 

    dynamic var name = "" 
    dynamic var notes: String? 
    var workoutDiary = List<Workout>() 
    dynamic var goal = 0 

} 

final class Workout: Object { 

    dynamic var date = NSDate() 
    var sets = List<WorkSet>() 

} 

JSON序列与iOS”默认串行器是相当严格的,并且大多数类型(包括NSDate)不能直接序列化。

我看了一下Eugene在这个问题中发布的令人敬畏的代码示例(看起来实际上是从另一个原始问题中派生出来的)。对象的深度似乎并不重要,因为看起来这个扩展巧妙地设置为在较低级别上递归地调用它自己。

现在,它只是简单地将NSDate值复制到字典中,但您可以轻松地将其他情况添加到条件列表中,以检测任何NSDate对象,并将它们转换为字符串。这会自动覆盖已经在字符串版本中的NSDate值:

extension Object { 
func toDictionary() -> NSDictionary { 
    let properties = self.objectSchema.properties.map { $0.name } 
    let dictionary = self.dictionaryWithValuesForKeys(properties) 

    let mutabledic = NSMutableDictionary() 
    mutabledic.setValuesForKeysWithDictionary(dictionary) 

    for prop in self.objectSchema.properties as [Property]! { 
     // find lists 
     if let nestedObject = self[prop.name] as? Object { 
      mutabledic.setValue(nestedObject.toDictionary(), forKey: prop.name) 
     } else if let nestedListObject = self[prop.name] as? ListBase { 
      var objects = [AnyObject]() 
      for index in 0..<nestedListObject._rlmArray.count { 
       let object = nestedListObject._rlmArray[index] as AnyObject 
       objects.append(object.toDictionary()) 
      } 
      mutabledic.setObject(objects, forKey: prop.name) 
     } 
     else if let dateObject = self[prop.name] as? NSDate { 
      let dateString = ... ; //Perform the conversion you want here 
      mutabledic.setValue(dateString, forKey: prop.name) 
     }  
    } 
    return mutabledic 
} 

}