Decoding JSON Web Tokens in Swift

by 
eyJleHAiOjE0MjY4MjIxNjMsImlkIjoiNTUwYjA3NzM4ODk1NjAwZTk5MDAwMDAxIn0

is not a valid Base64 encoded string because its length
is not a multiple of 4. Some Base64 decoder tolerate this error, but
the NSData methods don’t.

So this is actually an error on the server side creating the
Base64 encoded string. If necessary, you can fix it in your app
by adding the required padding with = characters (code updated for Swift 2):

var base64String = arr[1] as String
if base64String.characters.count % 4 != 0 {
    let padlen = 4 - base64String.characters.count % 4
    base64String += String(count: padlen, repeatedValue: Character("="))
}

And now the decoding works as expected:

if let data = NSData(base64EncodedString: base64String, options: []),
    let str = String(data: data, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding) {
    print(str) // {"exp":1426822163,"id":"550b07738895600e99000001"}
}

Swift 4:

var base64String = "eyJleHAiOjE0MjY4MjIxNjMsImlkIjoiNTUwYjA3NzM4ODk1NjAwZTk5MDAwMDAxIn0"

if base64String.count % 4 != 0 {
    let padlen = 4 - base64String.count % 4
    base64String.append(contentsOf: repeatElement("=", count: padlen))
}

if let data = Data(base64Encoded: base64String) ,
    let str = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8) {
    print(str) // {"exp":1426822163,"id":"550b07738895600e99000001"}
}

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