Hi,

I am in need of some help on how to interact with an API that provides a response as a dictionary which looks like this... (DictionaryResponseSample.json)

{
  "success": true
  "payload": [
    {
      "facility_id": 1234,
      "facility_name": "facility_1"
    },
    {
      "facility_id": 1235
      "facility_name": "facility_2"
    }
  ]
}    

I have no problem directly importing into Core Data when the response is an array as in... (ArrayResponseSample.json)

[
  {
    "facility_id": 1234,
    "facility_name": "facility_1"
  },
  {
    "facility_id": 1235
    "facility_name": "facility_2"
  }
]   

The code driving this is from Donny Wals Core Data book

From DataImporter.swift

public static var sampleData: Data {
    let url = Bundle(for: Self.self).url(forResource: "ArrayResponseSample", withExtension: "json")
    return try! Data(contentsOf: url!)
}
public func importData<T: Collection & Decodable>(_ data: Data, as model: T.Type) where T.Element: NSManagedObject {
    self._importData(data, as: model)
}

private func _importData<T: Decodable>(_ data: Data, as model: T.Type) {
    context.perform { [unowned self] in
        let decoder = JSONDecoder()
        decoder.userInfo[.managedObjectContext] = self.context

        do {
            _ = try decoder.decode(model, from: data)
            try self.context.save()
            self.context.reset()
        }
        catch {
            if self.context.hasChanges {
                self.context.rollback()
            }
            print("Failed to insert models")
            print(error)
        }
    }
}

Called in ContentView.swift...

var body: some View {
VStack {
    Button("Import Data") {
        let data = DataImporter.sampleData
        importer.importData(data, as: [Facility].self)
    }
    VStack {
        List(facilities, id: \.facility_id) { (facility: Facility) in 
                Text("\(facility.facility_name)")
        }
    }
}
.padding()
}

I'd like to keep the response metadata (success) in the API so I can confirm the success of a response. I could omit 'success' on the successul API call and use Swift's error handling to determine if the response responded with a success and only return the failure metadata on a failed API call.

It'd be great to just 'slice' off the paylaod array as I could resuse an API response class, but I cannot figure out how to do that

I believe that I am trying to do is very similar to Paul's Whitehouse project here: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/read/7/3/parsing-json-using-the-codable-protocol with the difference being using NSManagedObject classes instead of just Codable classes.

This would be a big breakthrough for me so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Instead of using Donny Wals' generic importer , I suggest you try defining this struct and decoding it:

struct MyResponseType: Decodable {
      let success: Bool
      let payload: [Facility]
}