Swift version: 5.2
When you use JSONEncoder
and Codable
to create JSON from your Swift data, your properties get written out in the order they appear inside your class. This is nearly always fine, because relying on key ordering in your JSON is almost certainly a bad idea.
However, if you’re debugging a large type and it’s hard to dig through keys to find what you want, JSONEncoder
has the perfect option for you: you can sort your JSON keys alphabetically.
To make it happen, change the outputFormatting
property of your JSONEncoder
object to be .sortedKeys
, like this:
let encoder = JSONEncoder()
encoder.outputFormatting = .sortedKeys
Now any JSON you produce will use alphabetical order for your keys rather than using their natural order inside your type.
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