How to serialize or convert Swift objects to JSON?

In Swift 4, you can inherit from the Codable type.

struct Dog: Codable {
    var name: String
    var owner: String
}

// Encode
let dog = Dog(name: "Rex", owner: "Etgar")

let jsonEncoder = JSONEncoder()
let jsonData = try jsonEncoder.encode(dog)
let json = String(data: jsonData, encoding: String.Encoding.utf16)

// Decode
let jsonDecoder = JSONDecoder()
let secondDog = try jsonDecoder.decode(Dog.self, from: jsonData)