Encoding/Decoding a Swift Dictionary to/from JSON

[itaiferber]

@Lantua

Dictionary itself specifically treats Int and String keys differently from the rest.

Specifically, it treats Int and String as CodingKeys with the equivalent intValue/stringValue which allows it to encode as an actual dictionary as opposed to the more general types.

From the last time @Lantua and I discussed this (), see the links below for some more background on this:

@itaiferber

See also the discussion in Bug or PEBKAC? (and my response in the thread for some background on why this is the case).

If you need to specifically maintain a dictionary format here, your best bet is to encode and decode as [Int: String] but perform the conversion to Int32 afterwards.