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The JSONSerialization class is built into Apple's Foundation framework. 2.2 Read JSON The JSONObjectWithData function takes NSData, and returns AnyObject. You can use as? to convert the result to your expected type. do { guard let jsonData = "[\"Hello\", \"JSON\"]&q...

A Swift String is made of Unicode code points. It can be decomposed and encoded in several different ways. let str = "ที่👌①!" Decomposing Strings A string's characters are Unicode extended grapheme clusters: Array(str.characters) // ["ที่", "👌", "①", ...

Occasionally you will find the need to encode binary data as a base64-encoded string. For this we can use the DatatypeConverter class from the javax.xml.bind package: import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter; import java.util.Arrays; // arbitrary binary data specified as a byte array byte[] bi...

If you need to create a JSONObject and put data in it, consider the following example: // Create a new javax.json.JSONObject instance. JSONObject first = new JSONObject(); first.put("foo", "bar"); first.put("temperature", 21.5); first.put("year", 2016);...

If you need to get data from a JSONObject, consider the following example: String json = "{\"foo\":\"bar\",\"temperature\":21.5,\"year\":2016,\"message\":{\"Hello\":\"world\"},\"months\":[\"January\",\&qu...

The json_decode() function takes a JSON-encoded string as its first parameter and parses it into a PHP variable. Normally, json_decode() will return an object of \stdClass if the top level item in the JSON object is a dictionary or an indexed array if the JSON object is an array. It will also retur...

The json_encode function will convert a PHP array (or, since PHP 5.4, an object which implements the JsonSerializable interface) to a JSON-encoded string. It returns a JSON-encoded string on success or FALSE on failure. $array = [ 'name' => 'Jeff', 'age' => 20, 'active' => ...

Closures are often used for asynchronous tasks, for example when fetching data from a website. 3.0 func getData(urlString: String, callback: (result: NSData?) -> Void) { // Turn the URL string into an NSURLRequest. guard let url = NSURL(string: urlString) else { return } let re...

// decode NSString *string = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:utf8Data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; // encode NSData *utf8Data = [string dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; Some supported encodings are: NSASCIIStringEncoding NSUTF8StringEnc...

Run-length encoding captures the lengths of runs of consecutive elements in a vector. Consider an example vector: dat <- c(1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1, 4, 4, 1, 1) The rle function extracts each run and its length: r <- rle(dat) r # Run Length Encoding # lengths: int [1:6] 1 3 1 1 2 2 # valu...

Key Value Coding is integrated into NSObject using NSKeyValueCoding protocol. What this means? It means that any id object is capable of calling valueForKey method and its various variants like valueForKeyPath etc. ' It also means that any id object can invoke setValue method and its various vari...

Long vectors with long runs of the same value can be significantly compressed by storing them in their run-length encoding (the value of each run and the number of times that value is repeated). As an example, consider a vector of length 10 million with a huge number of 1's and only a small number o...

.encode and .decode both have error modes. The default is 'strict', which raises exceptions on error. Other modes are more forgiving. Encoding >>> "£13.55".encode('ascii', errors='replace') b'?13.55' >>> "£13.55".encode('ascii', errors='ignore') b'13.55' ...

json.Marshal from the package "encoding/json" encodes a value to JSON. The parameter is the value to encode. The returned values are an array of bytes representing the JSON-encoded input (on success), and an error (on failure). decodedValue := []string{"foo", "bar"} ...

json.Unmarshal from the package "encoding/json" decodes a JSON value into the value pointed by the given variable. The parameters are the value to decode in []bytes and a variable to use as a storage for the de-serialized value. The returned value is an error (on failure). encodedValue :...

The charset attribute specifies the character encoding for the HTML document and needs to be a valid character encoding (examples include windows-1252, ISO-8859-2, Shift_JIS, and UTF-8). UTF-8 (Unicode) is the most widely used and should be used for any new project. 5 <meta charset="UTF-8...

XML elements often nest, have data in attributes and/or as character data. The way to capture this data is by using ,attr and ,chardata respectively for those cases. var doc = ` <parent> <child1 attr1="attribute one"/> <child2>and some cdata</child2> </p...

JSON data can also be read from files. Let's assume we have a file called data.json with the following content: [ { "Name" : "John Doe", "Standard" : 4 }, { "Name" : "Peter Parker", "Standard" : ...

Encoding //Create a Base64 Encoded NSString Object NSData *nsdata = [@"iOS Developer Tips encoded in Base64" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; // Get NSString from NSData object in Base64 NSString *base64Encoded = [nsdata base64EncodedStringWithOptions:0]; // Print the B...

.NET strings contain System.Char (UTF-16 code-units). If you want to save (or manage) text with another encoding you have to work with an array of System.Byte. Conversions are performed by classes derived from System.Text.Encoder and System.Text.Decoder which, together, can convert to/from another ...