json - How to make API call for this web service to fetch array of present and absent dates separately in swift?

Question

it was my previous question to simply display static data on FSCalendar using 2 arrays of present and absent days.

How to change background color of events array in FSCalendar swift 3?

now I want to fetch the present and absent dates from the following json response in the format of 2array named : present and absent want to display on FSCalendar according to my previous question.

How to parse the same?. Please guide me. Thanks in advance.

{
  "Present": [
  {
  "Student_ID": 2,
  "LeaveLetterApplied": null,
  "Message": null,
  "Date": "2017-06-04T00:00:00",
  "Notify": null,
  "Status": "Present"
 },
 {
  "Student_ID": 2,
  "LeaveLetterApplied": null,
  "Message": null,
  "Date": "2017-06-05T00:00:00",
  "Notify": null,
  "Status": "Present"
}],
  "Absent": [
   {
     "Student_ID": 2,
     "LeaveLetterApplied": "",
     "Message": "",
     "Date": "2017-06-01T00:00:00",
     "Notify": null,
     "Status": "Absent"
   },
   {
     "Student_ID": 2,
     "LeaveLetterApplied": "",
     "Message": "",
     "Date": "2017-06-02T00:00:00",
     "Notify": null,
     "Status": "Absent"
   },
  {
     "Student_ID": 2,
     "LeaveLetterApplied": "",
     "Message": "",
     "Date": "2017-06-03T00:00:00",
     "Notify": null,
     "Status": "Absent"
  },
  {
    "Student_ID": 2,
    "LeaveLetterApplied": "Applied",
    "Message": "Sick Leave",
    "Date": "2017-06-06T00:00:00",
    "Notify": null,
    "Status": "Absent"
 }
],
   "No_Of_Working_Days": 6,
   "No_Of_Present_Days": 2,
   "Percentage": 0
 }

Below is the code m using to parse :

func getdateFromJSON()
{
    let url = NSURL(string: "http://ezschoolportalapi.azurewebsites.net/api/Student/AttendanceDetails?schoolid=1&studentid=1&month=1&year=2017")
    let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: url! as URL)
    let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest) { (data, response, error)
        in
        guard error == nil && data != nil else
        {
            print("Error:",error)
            return
        }
        let httpstatus = response as? HTTPURLResponse
        if httpstatus?.statusCode == 200
        {
            if data?.count != 0
            {
                let responseString = try! JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data!, options: .allowFragments) as! NSDictionary
                let presentdetails = responseString["Present"] as? [[String:AnyObject]]
                let absentdetails = responseString["Absent"] as? [[String:AnyObject]]
                print(absentdetails)
                print(presentdetails)
               // dont know what to do next :(

                }

            else
            {
                print("No data got from URL")
            }
        }
        else{
            print("error httpstatus code is :",httpstatus?.statusCode)
        }

    }
    task.resume()

}

screenshot

Error Log :

2017-06-17 10:23:50.671 ezSchool[1848:24475] -[UICachedDeviceWhiteColor unsignedLongLongValue]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x608000059ec0 2017-06-17 10:23:50.672 ezSchool[1848:24475] Failed to set (placeholderType) user defined inspected property on (FSCalendar): -[UICachedDeviceWhiteColor unsignedLongLongValue]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x608000059ec0 2017-06-17 10:23:50.672 ezSchool[1848:24475] -[UICachedDeviceWhiteColor unsignedLongLongValue]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x608000059ec0 2017-06-17 10:23:50.672 ezSchool[1848:24475] Failed to set (firstWeekday) user defined inspected property on (FSCalendar): -[UICachedDeviceWhiteColor unsignedLongLongValue]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x608000059ec0 2017-06-17 10:23:50.672 ezSchool[1848:24475] -[UICachedDeviceWhiteColor doubleValue]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x608000059ec0 2017-06-17 10:23:50.673 ezSchool[1848:24475] Failed to set (headerHeight) user defined inspected property on (FSCalendar): -[UICachedDeviceWhiteColor doubleValue]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x608000059ec0 2017-06-17 10:23:50.673 ezSchool[1848:24475] -[UICachedDeviceWhiteColor doubleValue]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x608000059ec0 2017-06-17 10:23:50.673 ezSchool[1848:24475] Failed to set (headerTitleTextSize) user defined inspected property on (FSCalendar): -[UICachedDeviceWhiteColor doubleValue]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x608000059ec0 Error: Optional(Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1002 "unsupported URL" UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x60000005cbc0 {Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-1002 "(null)"}, NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=ezschoolportalapi.azurewebsites.net/api/Student/AttendanceDetails?schoolid=1&studentid=2&month=6&year=2017, NSErrorFailingURLKey=ezschoolportalapi.azurewebsites.net/api/Student/AttendanceDetails?schoolid=1&studentid=2&month=6&year=2017, NSLocalizedDescription=unsupported URL})

Answer 1

Don't use NSDictionary in Swift, you just need to use DateFormatter to get your formatted date. Also correct JSON dictionary in Swift 3 is [String:Any].

First of all declare two instance property in your class of type [String] named presentDateArray and absentDateArray.

var presentDateArray = [String]()
var absentDateArray = [String]()

Now initialize these two array in your response completion block this way.

if let responseJSON = (try? JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data!, options: .allowFragments)) as? [String:Any],
    let presentdetails = responseJSON["Present"] as? [[String:Any]],
    let Absentdetails = responseJSON["Absent"] as? [[String:Any]] {

     let dateFormatter = DateFormatter() 
     dateFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss"
     self.presentDateArray = presentdetails.flatMap { dateFormatter.date(for: $0["Date"] as! String) }.flatMap { dateFormatter1.string(from:$0) }
     self.absentDateArray = Absentdetails.flatMap { dateFormatter.date(for: $0["Date"] as! String) }.flatMap { dateFormatter1.string(from:$0) }
     DispatchQueue.main.async {
         calendar.reloadData()
     }
}

Now simply use this two array in your delegate of method of

func calendar(_ calendar: FSCalendar, appearance: FSCalendarAppearance,  titleDefaultColorFor date: Date) -> UIColor? {

    let datestring2 : String = dateFormatter1.string(from:date)

    if presentDateArray.contains(datestring2) {
        return UIColor.green
    }
    else if presentDateArray.contains(datestring2) {
       return UIColor.red
    }
    else {
       return nil
    }
}