Using Alamofire and SwiftyJSON and it returns me null when I use json["email"]?

Question

I imported both Alamofire and SwiftyJSON (latest versions) and I just want to try out the API calls.

here is what I am doing in viewDidLoad:

 url: String = "https://api.solvap.com" //this is not the real url of the api

 Alamofire.request(url, method: .get)
        .validate()
        .responseJSON { response in
        switch response.result {
        case .success(let value):
            let json = JSON(value)
            //this print statement prints the whole JSON list
            print(json)
            //this print statement just return null for some weird reason
            print(json["name"])
        case .failure(let error):
            print(error)
        }
    }

Console output in Xcode:

 [
   {
     "name" : "John",
     "surname" : "Doe",
     "password" : "54321",
     "job" : "Developer",
     "token" : "iw4lcsk7h8do3y6fuw5vvzefn"
   }
]
null

Any thoughts how to fix this and why this happens?

Answer 1

I figured this out.. If the API response looks like this:

(
    {
        "name" : "John",
        "surname" : "Doe",
        "password" : "54321",
        "job" : "Developer",
        "token" : "iw4lcsk7h8do3y6fuw5vvzefn"
    }
)

That means the API response is wrong and the perfect way is to fix the response from the Back-End and not trying to parse data from a wrong API response.

There is no reason to waste time on trying to parse data from a wrong API response.

The correct response of the API should look like this:

{
    "name" : "John",
    "surname" : "Doe",
    "password" : "54321",
    "job" : "Developer",
    "token" : "iw4lcsk7h8do3y6fuw5vvzefn"
}