Swift NSUserDefaults setObject for Array - arrays

Question

i need to save with NSUserDefaults an array that i get from jSON, the problem is it save only the first string and not all the array. So if the array is like NewYork,London,Rome .. it save only NewYork. I use it for a picker view.
This is the code:
EDIT
For save the Array from jSON:
if let jsonData = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(urlData!, options: nil, error: &error) as? [String:AnyObject] { // dictionary
if let locationsArray = jsonData["locations"] as? [[String:AnyObject]] { // array of dictionaries
for locationDictionary in locationsArray { // we loop in the array of dictionaries
if let location = locationDictionary["location_name"] as? String { // finally, access the dictionary like you were trying to do
// println(location)
var locationSave: Void = save.setObject(location, forKey: "Location")
}
}
}
}
}
and for request the Array:
var Location = save.objectForKey("Location")!
var pickerviewFields = Location
return pickerviewFields.count
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You can only save an NSArray, if the Array is a Swift Array, you will need to convert it. Also, NSArray and NSDictionary objects, their contents must be property list objects.
Here's how you would convert the Array:
var MyArray = ["a", "b", "c"]
var MyNSArray: NSArray
MyNSArray = MyArray as NSArray
println("\(MyNSArray)")
Prints: (a,b,c)
I have a small example with some sample JSON:
var myJSONString: NSString = "{ \"locations\" : [ { \"location_name\" : \"A\" }, { \"location_name\" : \"B\" }, { \"location_name\" : \"C\" }, { \"location_name\" : \"D\" } ] }"
var urlData: NSData? = NSData()
var error: NSError?
var save = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults()
urlData = myJSONString.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)
if let jsonData = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(urlData!, options: nil, error: &error) as? NSDictionary { // dictionary
if let locationsArray = jsonData["locations"] as? NSArray { // array of dictionaries
for locationDictionary in locationsArray { // we loop in the array of dictionaries
if let location = locationDictionary["location_name"] as? NSString {
println(location)
}
}
NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().setObject(locationsArray, forKey: "locationArray")
}
}
println(save.dictionaryRepresentation())

Answer 2

You can try this:
Writing
let locationArray = ["London", "NewYork", "Rome"]
let locationData = NSKeyedArchiver.archivedDataWithRootObject(locationArray)
NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().setObject(locationData, forKey: "Location")
NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().synchronize()
Reading
let locationData = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().objectForKey("Location") as? NSData
if let locationData = locationData {
let locationArray = NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveObjectWithData(locationData) as? [String]
if let locationArray = locationArray {
println(locationArray)
}
}