在Swift 5.4中

extension Dictionary {
    var jsonData: Data? {
        return try? JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: self, options: [.prettyPrinted])
    }
    
    func toJSONString() -> String? {
        if let jsonData = jsonData {
            let jsonString = String(data: jsonData, encoding: .utf8)
            return jsonString
        }
        
        return nil
    }
}

把它作为变量的想法是，这样你就可以像这样重用它:

extension Dictionary {
    func decode<T:Codable>() throws -> T {
        return try JSONDecoder().decode(T.self, from: jsonData ?? Data())
    }
}

你问题的答案如下:

斯威夫特2.1

     do {
          if let postData : NSData = try NSJSONSerialization.dataWithJSONObject(dictDataToBeConverted, options: NSJSONWritingOptions.PrettyPrinted){

          let json = NSString(data: postData, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)! as String
          print(json)}

        }
        catch {
           print(error)
        }

斯威夫特5:

extension Dictionary {
    
    /// Convert Dictionary to JSON string
    /// - Throws: exception if dictionary cannot be converted to JSON data or when data cannot be converted to UTF8 string
    /// - Returns: JSON string
    func toJson() throws -> String {
        let data = try JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: self)
        if let string = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8) {
            return string
        }
        throw NSError(domain: "Dictionary", code: 1, userInfo: ["message": "Data cannot be converted to .utf8 string"])
    }
}

这对我来说很管用:

import SwiftyJSON

extension JSON {
    
    mutating func appendIfKeyValuePair(key: String, value: Any){
        if var dict = self.dictionaryObject {
            dict[key] = value
            self = JSON(dict)
        }
    }
}

用法:

var data: JSON = []

data.appendIfKeyValuePair(key: "myKey", value: "myValue")

你的假设是错误的。只是因为调试器/Playground用方括号显示你的字典(这是Cocoa显示字典的方式)，这并不意味着这是JSON输出格式化的方式。

下面是将字符串字典转换为JSON的示例代码:

Swift 3版本:

import Foundation

let dictionary = ["aKey": "aValue", "anotherKey": "anotherValue"]
if let theJSONData = try? JSONSerialization.data(
    withJSONObject: dictionary,
    options: []) {
    let theJSONText = String(data: theJSONData,
                               encoding: .ascii)
    print("JSON string = \(theJSONText!)")
}

要以“漂亮打印”的格式显示上面的内容，你可以将选项行更改为:

    options: [.prettyPrinted]

或者在Swift 2语法中:

import Foundation
 
let dictionary = ["aKey": "aValue", "anotherKey": "anotherValue"]
let theJSONData = NSJSONSerialization.dataWithJSONObject(
  dictionary ,
  options: NSJSONWritingOptions(0),
  error: nil)
let theJSONText = NSString(data: theJSONData!,
  encoding: NSASCIIStringEncoding)
println("JSON string = \(theJSONText!)")

它的输出是

"JSON string = {"anotherKey":"anotherValue","aKey":"aValue"}"

或者用漂亮的格式:

{
  "anotherKey" : "anotherValue",
  "aKey" : "aValue"
}

正如您所期望的那样，在JSON输出中，字典用花括号括起来。

编辑:

在Swift 3/4语法中，上面的代码看起来像这样:

  let dictionary = ["aKey": "aValue", "anotherKey": "anotherValue"]
    if let theJSONData = try?  JSONSerialization.data(
      withJSONObject: dictionary,
      options: .prettyPrinted
      ),
      let theJSONText = String(data: theJSONData,
                               encoding: String.Encoding.ascii) {
          print("JSON string = \n\(theJSONText)")
    }
  }

 do{
        let dataDict = [ "level" :
                            [
                                ["column" : 0,"down" : 0,"left" : 0,"right" : 0,"row" : 0,"up" : 0],
                                ["column" : 1,"down" : 0,"left" : 0,"right" : 0,"row" : 0,"up" : 0],
                                ["column" : 2,"down" : 0,"left" : 0,"right" : 0,"row" : 0,"up" : 0],
                                ["column" : 0,"down" : 0,"left" : 0,"right" : 0,"row" : 1,"up" : 0],
                                ["column" : 1,"down" : 0,"left" : 0,"right" : 0,"row" : 1,"up" : 0],
                                ["column" : 2,"down" : 0,"left" : 0,"right" : 0,"row" : 1,"up" : 0]
                            ]
        ]
        var jsonData = try JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: dataDict, options: JSONSerialization.WritingOptions.prettyPrinted)
        let jsonStringData =  NSString(data: jsonData as Data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding)! as String
        print(jsonStringData)
    }catch{
        print(error.localizedDescription)
    }