How to display JSON having HTML data?

Question

I have HTML tags and entities in JSON, I don't know how to display it in my app. I tried removing new lines, I tried decoding html entities but nothing worked.

Below is an example of JSON I have:

{"Jobdesc":[{"jobid":"12281","job_title":"IOS Developer for Noida Location Job","job_desc":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Job Description&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

Dear Candidate&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;

I have an opening for IOS Developer for Noida Location for leading IT company. pli\ease find the JD below-&lt;br /&gt;

JOB DESCRIPTION :-&lt;br /&gt;

Industry :- IT&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;

Experience :- Min 1 Year&lt;br /&gt;

Position :- IOS Developer&lt;br /&gt;

Location :- Noida&lt;br /&gt;

&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;strong&gt;Job Responsibility :-&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;

Design and build advanced applications for the iOS platform&lt;br /&gt;

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p&gt;Working experience in iOS development&lt;br /&gt;

Have published one or more iOS apps in the app store&lt;br /&gt;

A deep familiarity with Objective-C and Cocoa Touch&lt;br /&gt;

Experience working with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core      Animation, Core Graphics and Core Text&lt;br /&gt;

&amp;nbsp;If you are interested in the above mentioned JD kindly share your resume with me and contact me on :-&lt;br /&gt;

 &amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;

 Thanks And Regards&lt;br /&gt;

 Pal Mittal&lt;br /&gt;

 Contact no :- 9200272001&lt;br /&gt;

 Email ID :- [email protected]&lt;br /&gt;

&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;

&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;

Functional Area: Web / Mobile Technologies&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;

Industry: IT - Software&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;

Skills: IOS ipad&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;

Other Skills: IOS Developer Iphone Developer IOS Application Developer    iphone Application Developer iphone&lt;br /&gt;

&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;

Recruiter details&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;

Company Name:  Employment Solution&lt;br /&gt;

Email: [email protected]&lt;br /&gt;

Telephone: 9200272001&lt;/p&gt;

","job_role":"IOS Developer","job_exp":"1-4  year","job_education":"MCA","job_location":"Delhi","job_address":"Delhi","j  ob_company_name":"India Shine Employment  Solution","job_company_url":"www.india- shine.in","job_company_email":"[email protected]","job_status":""}]}

actually not possible with the above json because, no parser would be able to parse this.. for instance br / how would any parser recognize that its a break tag — Annie Gupta
– Annie Gupta, Commented Oct 28, 2016 at 10:46
@Sharpkits Yeah ! i have too many JSON response like this,thought somehow i managed many of them, through coding and decoding html entities , what should be done now ? can i use exception handling in this? — Shikha Sharma
– Shikha Sharma, Commented Oct 28, 2016 at 10:50
Can you please provide more details regarding how much you were able to parse? and what is the output display you wish to show — Nitesh Kumar Singh
– Nitesh Kumar Singh, Commented Oct 28, 2016 at 11:03

Vinodh · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-05 05:03:59Z

Actually there are 2 approaches

Approach 1

Code

@interface NSAttributedString (HTML)
+ (instancetype)attributedStringWithHTMLString:(NSString *)htmlString;
@end

@implementation NSAttributedString (HTML)
+ (instancetype)attributedStringWithHTMLString:(NSString *)htmlString
{
    NSDictionary *options = @{ NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute : NSHTMLTextDocumentType,
                               NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute :@(NSUTF8StringEncoding) };

    NSData *data = [htmlString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

    return [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithData:data options:options documentAttributes:nil error:nil];
}

@end

Usage

NSString *cleanString = [[NSAttributedString attributedStringWithHTMLString:question.title] string];

Approach 2

Check out NSString category for XMLEntities. There's methods to decode XML entities (including all HTML character references), encode XML entities, stripping tags and removing newlines and whitespace from a string:

- (NSString *)stringByStrippingTags;
- (NSString *)stringByDecodingXMLEntities; // Including all HTML character references
- (NSString *)stringByEncodingXMLEntities;
- (NSString *)stringWithNewLinesAsBRs;
- (NSString *)stringByRemovingNewLinesAndWhitespace;

Bhavuk Jain · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-28 16:09:12Z

0

You can use UIWebView and show it like this:

let htmlString = //HTML String      
webView.delegate = self
webView.scalesPageToFit = true
webView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFit
webView.loadHTMLString(htmlString, baseURL: nil)

answered Oct 28, 2016 at 16:09

Bhavuk Jain

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