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FWIW, NSJSONSerialization ran on heroku for me, I also use a library https://github.com/gfx/Swift-PureJsonSerializer which might be nice to use if you'd prefer to stay truly pure Swift

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Yeah the current JSON serializer for Linux is a placeholder for something better. I was hoping to hold out for Apple supporting pure Dictionary and Array objects in their Foundation serializer (possibly that is now true in the latest versions of the compiler).

I will look into that repo you linked.

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I took a look into a couple JSON serializers for supposedly "Swift on Linux" last night, and none of them worked. The current Linux compiler does not view [String: Any] as an AnyObject which they all seem to rely on. Or some rely on defining your JSON like this:

let response: JSON = [
     ....
]

I'm not a fan of this solution because this destroys the concise syntax of something like:

Route.get("...") { _ in
  return [
      ...
  ]
}

You can use the Foundation JSON serializer if you explicitly make all of your responses NSDictionarys with NSString keys, but that is a pain semantically.

I can't see any solution now besides waiting for the compiler to get its weirdnesses figured out.

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I see the problem with the requiring an explicit type addition.

I've solved a similar problem w/ Json convertible types on top of pure json serializer. I'll see if I can apply some of that here so the user could see just a standard concise syntax and we'd be able to convert it in the background.

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If you could make a PR or link me to some examples of this working that would be helpful. Also, nice article on Medium. 👍

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@tannernelson Will do, might not be until tomorrow, but I have some code that should work for this. I just need to break the convertible component out so we're not doing copy pasta between the two libs.

Glad you saw the medium post, I couldn't find your twitter to link you, let me know if you have one and I'll add it!

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My twitter is @tanner0101

And that sounds good. Feel free to submit the PR early/incomplete if you want assistance working on it.

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@tannernelson If you didn't see, we're up on http://iosdevweekly.com/

Hopefully can get some more traffic this way! I've started some of the Json convertible stuff, I'll have a pr up soon hopefully 👍

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Awesome! :) Congrats.

Also, check out issue #28. There is a potential solution for serializing and parsing mentioned there.

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Awesome coverage!

Matthew Clarkson

On 20 Feb 2016, at 6:52 AM, Tanner [email protected] wrote:

Awesome! :) Congrats.

Also, check out issue #28. �There is a potential solution for serializing and parsing mentioned there.

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