Core Data + JSON Exporting + Multimedia

App Development
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Quick Question, I just want to validate if this is possible under swifttui:

My Core Data will contain image binary, I want to export it to JSON, is it possible?
Can my Core Data save audio binary? can it be exported to JSON also?

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Not directly to JSON. JSON is for saving text mainly, you can reference the image data by uploading to a server, and the JSON can hold that reference

But you don’t directly save image data to JSON

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To build on what @mikaelacaron said…

It is possible to save video/audio data to JSON, but inadvisable in most cases. Since JSON doesn’t directly support raw data, you would need to convert the data to a Base64-encoded string (or some other kind of data-to-string encoding) and then save that string to the JSON. (And, of course, reverse the process for decoding.) And it would balloon the size of your JSON quite a bit. Unless you have a really compelling use case for doing so, I would avoid it.

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Thanks for the info @roosterboy I forgot that’s possible, but like you said inadvisable

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thank you @roosterboy and @mikaelacaron for the info.I appreciated it. So I think I will go for the cloud solution.