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Convert Map<String, ArrayList<String>> to Nested JSON

So I have a Map<String, ArrayList> parentToChild and want to create basically a "Family Tree" or nested hierarchy. Below is an example of the map but there could be more children at each level e.g. (Claire could have Matt and Bruce as children):
David -> [Claire]
Claire -> [Matt]
Matt -> [Sean, Terry]
I know the root of the tree should be David for the above example and it will only have one root.
Example output
{
"David": {
"Claire": {
"Matt": {
"Sean": {},
"Terry": {}
}
}
}
}
I've tried few things but genuinely stumped.
EDIT: Code tried so far
public Set<Tree> transform(Map<String, ArrayList<String>> input) {
Set<String> roots = new HashSet<String>(input.keySet());
Map<String, Tree> map = new HashMap<String, Tree>();
for (Map.Entry<String, ArrayList<String>> entry : input.entrySet()) {
String key = entry.getKey();
List<String> childKeys = entry.getValue();
Tree tree = map.get(key);
if (tree == null) {
tree = new Tree(key);
map.put(key, tree);
}
for (String childKey : childKeys) {
roots.remove(childKey);
Tree child = map.get(childKey);
if (child == null) {
child = new Tree(childKey);
map.put(childKey, child);
}
tree.addChild(child);
}
}
Set<Tree> res = new HashSet<Tree>(roots.size());
for (String key : roots) {
res.add(map.get(key));
}
return res;
}
Tree class:
public class Tree {
private String key;
private Tree child;
public Tree(String key){
this.key = key;
}
public void addChild(Tree child){
this.child = child;
}
}
The issue is when I use this code the output (What is in the set after debugging/printing) I get is
David:
Claire:
Matt:
Terry:

You could use a Map<String,Object>:
private static final Gson GSON = new GsonBuilder()
.setPrettyPrinting()
.create();
public static void main(String[] args) {
Map<String, List<String>> input = new HashMap<>();
input.put("David", Arrays.asList("Claire"));
input.put("Claire", Arrays.asList("Matt"));
input.put("Matt", Arrays.asList("Sean", "Terry"));
Map<String,Object> result = new HashMap<>();
convert(input, "David", result);
GSON.toJson(result, System.out);
}
private static void convert(Map<String, List<String>> input, String root,
Map<String,Object> result) {
if (!result.containsKey(root)) {
Map<String,Object> rootObj = new HashMap<>();
result.put(root, rootObj);
List<String> children = input.get(root);
if (children != null) {
for (String child: children) {
convert(input, child, rootObj);
}
}
}
}
Output:
{
"David": {
"Claire": {
"Matt": {
"Terry": {},
"Sean": {}
}
}
}
}

In the Java world you have access to Saxon 9.8 or later HE where XPath 3.1 or XQuery 3.1 or XSLT 3.0 all have support for representing your initial map as an XdmMap and processing them, for instance with XQuery:
declare namespace map = "http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/map";
declare namespace output = "http://www.w3.org/2010/xslt-xquery-serialization";
declare option output:method 'json';
declare option output:indent 'yes';
declare variable $map as map(xs:string, array(xs:string)) external := map {
'David' : [ 'Claire' ],
'Claire' : [ 'Matt' ],
'Matt' : [ 'Sean', 'Terry' ]
};
declare variable $root as xs:string external := 'David';
declare function local:create-tree($map as map(xs:string, array(xs:string)), $children as xs:string*) as map(*) {
map:merge($children ! map { . : local:create-tree($map, $map(.)) })
};
local:create-tree($map, $root)
https://xqueryfiddle.liberty-development.net/3Nzd8bV
A simple Java example to run this with Saxon 10 HE (its API documentation is at http://saxonica.com/html/documentation/using-xquery/api-query/s9api-query.html), passing a Java Map to the XQuery (inserted inline as a string but could of course be loaded from a file instead) is:
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import net.sf.saxon.s9api.Processor;
import net.sf.saxon.s9api.QName;
import net.sf.saxon.s9api.SaxonApiException;
import net.sf.saxon.s9api.XQueryCompiler;
import net.sf.saxon.s9api.XQueryEvaluator;
import net.sf.saxon.s9api.XQueryExecutable;
import net.sf.saxon.s9api.XdmMap;
public class SaxonJavaMapToNestedJSONObject {
public static void main(String[] args) throws SaxonApiException {
Map<String, String[]> map = new HashMap<>();
map.put("David", new String[] { "Claire" });
map.put("Claire", new String[] { "Matt" });
map.put("Matt", new String[] { "Sean", "Terry" });
Processor processor = new Processor(true);
XQueryCompiler compiler = processor.newXQueryCompiler();
XQueryExecutable executable = compiler.compile("declare namespace map = \"http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/map\";\n" +
"\n" +
"declare namespace output = \"http://www.w3.org/2010/xslt-xquery-serialization\";\n" +
"\n" +
"declare option output:method 'json';\n" +
"declare option output:indent 'yes';\n" +
"\n" +
"declare variable $map as map(xs:string, array(xs:string)) external;\n" +
"\n" +
"declare variable $root as xs:string external := 'David';\n" +
"\n" +
"declare function local:create-tree($map as map(xs:string, array(xs:string)), $children as xs:string*) as map(*) {\n" +
" map:merge($children ! map { . : local:create-tree($map, $map(.)) })\n" +
"};\n" +
"\n" +
"local:create-tree($map, $root)");
XQueryEvaluator evaluator = executable.load();
evaluator.setExternalVariable(new QName("map"), XdmMap.makeMap(map));
evaluator.run(processor.newSerializer(System.out));
}
}
Of course you could set the root variable as well from Java: evaluator.setExternalVariable(new QName("root"), new XdmAtomicValue("David"));

How to define array of objects in a properties file and read from Java program

I have a properties file like this.
property[0].name=A
property[0].value=1
property[1].name=B
property[1].value=2
property[2].name=C
property[2].value=3
How to read this file as a list of objects of a class {name, value} in plain java program using ResourceBundle or Properties?
Here is the class.
public class XYZ {
private String name;
private String value;
// Getters & Setters
}
I need to get like this.
ArrayList<XYZ> propertiesList = SomeUtility.getProperties("property", XYZ.class);
Utility class might be like this.
public class SomeUtility {
public static ArrayList getProperties(String key, Class cls) {
//logic
}
}

I might not understand exactly what you want so feel free to correct me and give me more constraints to work with but here is a simple way to read a Properties file located somewhere in your project:
private static void readPropertiesFile(String path) throws IOException {
java.util.Map<String, String> map = new java.util.LinkedHashMap<>();
Properties properties = new Properties();
InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(path);
properties.load(inputStream);
for (String name : properties.stringPropertyNames()) {
map.put(name, properties.getProperty(name));
}
for (java.util.Map.Entry<String, String> entry : map.entrySet()) {
System.out.printf("Property Key: %s, Property Value: %s%n", entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
}
}
Output
Property Key: property[0].name, Property Value: A
Property Key: property[1].name, Property Value: B
Property Key: property[0].value, Property Value: 1
Property Key: property[1].value, Property Value: 2
Property Key: property[2].name, Property Value: C
Property Key: property[2].value, Property Value: 3

This is the solution I wrote, but it involves Reflect and Gson. Is there any better way to do this? Anything already available which is fine tuned like Apache's.
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.util.*;
public class ListResourceBundle {
public static final Gson gson = new Gson();
private final ResourceBundle bundle;
public ListResourceBundle(ResourceBundle bundle) {
this.bundle = bundle;
}
public List<?> getProperties(String key, Class<?> cls) {
final int maxArraySize = getMaxArraySize(key, getMatchingKeys(key));
final List<String> fields = getFields(cls);
final List<Object> result = new ArrayList<>();
for (int i = 0; i < maxArraySize; i++) {
JsonObject jsonObject = new JsonObject();
for (String field : fields) {
jsonObject.addProperty(field, getStringOrNull(key + "[" + i + "]." + field));
}
result.add(gson.fromJson(jsonObject, cls));
}
System.out.println("result.toString() = " + result.toString());
return result;
}
public List<String> getMatchingKeys(String key) {
Enumeration<String> keys = bundle.getKeys();
List<String> matchingKeys = new ArrayList<>();
while(keys.hasMoreElements()) {
String k = keys.nextElement();
if(k.startsWith(key)) {
matchingKeys.add(k);
}
}
Collections.sort(matchingKeys);
return matchingKeys;
}
public int getMaxArraySize(String key, List<String> matchingKeys) {
int maxArraySize = 0;
for (int i = 0; ; i++) {
boolean indexAvailable = false;
for (String matchingKey : matchingKeys) {
if(matchingKey.startsWith(key + "[" + i + "]")) {
indexAvailable = true;
break;
}
}
if(indexAvailable) {
maxArraySize++;
} else {
break;
}
}
return maxArraySize;
}
public String getStringOrNull(String key) {
try {
return bundle.getString(key);
} catch (MissingResourceException e) {
return null;
}
}
public List<String> getFields(Class<?> cls) {
final List<String> fields = new ArrayList<>();
for (Field field : cls.getDeclaredFields()) {
fields.add(field.getName());
}
return fields;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
ResourceBundle bundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("com.example.application.resources.Resource");
ListResourceBundle applicationResourceBundle = new ListResourceBundle(bundle);
applicationResourceBundle.getProperties("property", ReportParam.class);
}
}
Resource:
property[0].name=A
property[0].value=1
property[1].name=B
property[1].value=2
property[2].name=C
property[2].value=3
Output:
result.toString() = [
ReportParam{name='A', value='1'},
ReportParam{name='B', value='2'},
ReportParam{name='C', value='3'}]
Process finished with exit code 0

I know it's bit late of an answer, but if I understand your problem statement correctly, you can use :
#ConfigurationProperties
to get your job done.
Here is my spring-boot example with a YAML file for the sake of convenience (same can be achieved through properties file as well).
application.yaml:
xyz:
xyzprops :
-
name: cbc
value: 441
-
name: obc
value: 443
XYZ class:
#Component
#ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "xyz")
public class XYZ{
private List<XYZProps> xyzprops;
public List<XYZProps> getXyzprops() {
return xyzprops;
}
public void setXyzprops(List<XYZProps> xyzprops) {
this.xyzprops = xyzprops;
}
public class XYZProps{
String name;
String value;
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public String getValue() {
return value;
}
public void setValue(String value) {
this.value = value;
}
}
}
And then #Autowire XYZ where you want to use it.

I would use JSON:
in your file:
property=[{"name":"A","value":"1"},{"name":"B","value":"2"},{"name":"C","value":"3"}]
and then deserialize it using com.google.gson.gson (or any other) library:
ArrayList<XYZ> propertiesList;
propertiesList = new gsonbuilder().create().fromjson(property, propertiesList.class);
NOTE: I haven't tested this code, and i'm not very familiar with java so i am sure there is a better,cleaner way to implement this.

how to map a JSON to a java model class

I need to map JSON obj to a class and its arrays to ArrayList in Android and it should have all the children data as well. (with nested arraylists too) and i need to convert updated data list again to jsonobject
my json string is
{
"type": "already_planted",
"crops": [
{
"crop_id": 1,
"crop_name": "apple",
"crop_details": [
{
"created_id": "2017-01-17",
"questions": [
{
"plants": "10"
},
{
"planted_by": "A person"
}
]
},
{
"created_id": "2017-01-30",
"questions": [
{
"plants": "15"
},
{
"planted_by": "B person"
}
]
}
]
},
{
"crop_id": 2,
"crop_name": "Cashew",
"crop_details": [
{
"created_id": "2017-01-17",
"questions": [
{
"plants": "11"
},
{
"planted_by": "c person"
}
]
}
]
}
]
}

First of all, you need to create the class that you are going to map JSON inside.
Fortunately, there is a website that can do it for you here
secondly, you can use google Gson library for easy mapping
1. add the dependency.
dependencies {
implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.6'
}
2. from your object to JSON.
MyData data =new MyData() ; //initialize the constructor
Gson gson = new Gson();
String Json = gson.toJson(data ); //see firstly above above
//now you have the json string do whatever.
3. from JSON to object .
String jsonString =doSthToGetJson(); //http request
MyData data =new MyData() ;
Gson gson = new Gson();
data= gson.fromJson(jsonString,MyData.class);
//now you have Pojo do whatever
for more information about gson see this tutorial.

If you use JsonObject, you can define your entity class as this:
public class Entity {
String type;
List<Crops> crops;
}
public class Crops {
long crop_id;
String crop_name;
List<CropDetail> crop_details;
}
public class CropDetail {
String created_id;
List<Question> questions;
}
public class Question {
int plants;
String planted_by;
}
public void convert(String json){
JsonObject jsonObject = new JsonObject(jsonstring);
Entity entity = new Entity();
entity.type = jsonObject.optString("type");
entity.crops = new ArrayList<>();
JsonArray arr = jsonObject.optJSONArray("crops");
for (int i = 0; i < arr.length(); i++) {
JSONObject crops = arr.optJSONObject(i);
Crops cps = new Crops();
cps.crop_id = crops.optLong("crop_id");
cps.crop_name = crops.optString("crop_name");
cps.crop_details = new ArrayList<>();
JsonArray details = crops.optJsonArray("crop_details");
// some other serialize codes
..........
}
}
So you can nested to convert your json string to an entity class.

Here is how I do it without any packages, this do the work for me for small use cases:
My modal class:
package prog.com.quizapp.models;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
public class Question {
private String question;
private String correct_answer;
private String answer_a;
private String answer_b;
private String answer_c;
private String answer_d;
public Question() {
}
public Question(String question, String answer_a, String answer_b, String answer_c, String answer_d, String correct_answer) {
this.question = question;
this.answer_a = answer_a;
this.answer_b = answer_b;
this.answer_c = answer_c;
this.answer_d = answer_d;
this.correct_answer = correct_answer;
}
public String getQuestion() {
return question;
}
public void setQuestion(String question) {
this.question = question;
}
public String getCorrect_answer() {
return correct_answer;
}
public void setCorrect_answer(String correct_answer) {
this.correct_answer = correct_answer;
}
public String getAnswer_a() {
return answer_a;
}
public void setAnswer_a(String answer_a) {
this.answer_a = answer_a;
}
public String getAnswer_b() {
return answer_b;
}
public void setAnswer_b(String answer_b) {
this.answer_b = answer_b;
}
public String getAnswer_c() {
return answer_c;
}
public void setAnswer_c(String answer_c) {
this.answer_c = answer_c;
}
public String getAnswer_d() {
return answer_d;
}
public void setAnswer_d(String answer_d) {
this.answer_d = answer_d;
}
#Override
public String toString() {
return "Question{" +
"question='" + question + '\'' +
", correct_answer='" + correct_answer + '\'' +
", answer_a='" + answer_a + '\'' +
", answer_b='" + answer_b + '\'' +
", answer_c='" + answer_c + '\'' +
", answer_d='" + answer_d + '\'' +
'}';
}
public static Question fromJson(JSONObject obj) throws JSONException {
return new Question(
obj.getString("question"),
obj.getString("answer_a"),
obj.getString("answer_b"),
obj.getString("answer_c"),
obj.getString("answer_d"),
obj.getString("correct_answer"));
}
}
And I have another class to get the json file from assets directory and mapped JsonObject to my model class Question:
package prog.com.quizapp.utils;
import android.content.Context;
import android.util.Log;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import prog.com.quizapp.models.Question;
public class JsonSqlQueryMapper {
private Context mContext;
public JsonSqlQueryMapper(Context context) {
this.mContext = context;
}
private static final String TAG = "JsonSqlQueryMapper";
public JSONObject loadJSONFromAsset() {
String json = null;
try {
InputStream is = mContext.getAssets().open("quiz_app.json");
int size = is.available();
byte[] buffer = new byte[size];
is.read(buffer);
is.close();
json = new String(buffer, "UTF-8");
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
return null;
}
try {
JSONObject quizObject = new JSONObject(json).getJSONObject("quiz");
return quizObject;
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.d(TAG, "loadJSONFromAsset: " + e.getMessage());
return null;
}
}
public ArrayList<Question> generateInsertQueryForJsonObjects() {
ArrayList<Question> questions = new ArrayList<>();
JSONObject jsonObject = loadJSONFromAsset();
try {
Iterator<String> iter = jsonObject.keys();
while (iter.hasNext()) {
String key = iter.next();
JSONObject value = jsonObject.getJSONObject(key);
Question question = Question.fromJson(value.getJSONObject("question_two"));
questions.add(question);
Log.d(TAG, "generateInsertQueryForJsonObjects: " + question.getAnswer_a());
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return questions;
}
}
And in my MainActivity -> onCreate:
JsonSqlQueryMapper mapper = new JsonSqlQueryMapper(MainActivity.this);
mapper.generateInsertQueryForJsonObjects();
To check that everything working as I want. Here is the json file if you want to check https://github.com/Blasanka/android_quiz_app/blob/sqlite_db_app/app/src/main/assets/quiz_app.json
Regards!

Iterate ArrayList

I want to know the best way to iterate this ArrayList, this ArrayList comes from a Response from an API, this is the ArrayList:
The problem is that i dont know how to get the "id" and the "value" from the loop,
i know the arraylist size but i dont have any idea how to print the "Keys" and "Values" from this Array
for(int i=1; i <= contacts.size(); i++) {
//Example System.out.print(contacts[i]->id);
//Example System.out.print(contacts[i]->contact_name) ;
//Example System.out.print(contacts[i]->numbers);
//Example System.out.print(contacts[i]->emails);
//I want to print id and value
//
}
In onResponse i call this fucntion for example:
ServerResponse resp = response.body();
functionExample((ArrayList) resp.getResponse());
The functionExample have an ArrayList as parameter.
This is my result from my resp.getResponse():
This is my json from the API:
{
"result": "success",
"message": "Lista de Contactos",
"response": [
{
"id": 1,
"contact_name": "EDIFICADORA JUANA",
"numbers": "{24602254,55655545}",
"emails": "{oipoa#gmaio.com,rst008#guan.com}"
},
{
"id": 2,
"contact_name": "LA MEJOR",
"numbers": "{25445877,25845877}",
"emails": "{AMEJOR#GMAIL.COM}"
}
]
}
I appreciate any help.

public void FunctionExample(ArrayList contacts) {
for(int i=0; i < contacts.size(); i++) {
LinkedTreeMap<String, Object> map = (LinkedTreeMap<String, Object>) contacts.get(i);
map.containsKey("id");
String id = (String) map.get("id");
map.containsKey("contact_name");
String contact_name = (String) map.get("contact_name");
map.containsKey("numbers");
String numbers = (String) map.get("numbers");
numbers.replace("{","").replace("}","");
map.containsKey("emails");
String emails = (String) map.get("emails");
emails.replace("{","").replace("}","");
Snackbar.make(getView(), id, Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG).show();
Snackbar.make(getView(), contact_name, Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG).show();
Snackbar.make(getView(), numbers, Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG).show();
Snackbar.make(getView(), emails, Snackbar.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
}

Try this..It will give arrayList of id's
JSONObject object=new JSONObject(response);
JSONArray array= null;
try {
array = object.getJSONArray("response");
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
ArrayList<String> idArray=new ArrayList<>();
for(int i=0;i< array.length();i++)
{
idArray.add(getJSONObject(i).getString("id"));
}

Try this way if you are using ArrayList<TreeMap<String, String>> contacts;
for(TreeMap<String,String> contact : contacts){
String id = contact.getValue("id");
}

I would strongly encourage you to use e.g. Jackson to map your JSON response to a proper object. Consider following example:
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import org.junit.Test;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import java.util.stream.Stream;
public class JacksonTest {
private static final String JSON = "{\n" +
"\"result\": \"success\",\n" +
"\"message\": \"Lista de Contactos\",\n" +
"\"response\": [\n" +
" {\n" +
" \"id\": 1,\n" +
" \"contact_name\": \"EDIFICADORA JUANA\",\n" +
" \"numbers\": \"{24602254,55655545}\",\n" +
" \"emails\": \"{oipoa#gmaio.com,rst008#guan.com}\"\n" +
" },\n" +
" {\n" +
" \"id\": 2,\n" +
" \"contact_name\": \"LA MEJOR\",\n" +
" \"numbers\": \"{25445877,25845877}\",\n" +
" \"emails\": \"{AMEJOR#GMAIL.COM}\"\n" +
" }\n" +
" ]\n" +
"}";
#Test
public void testParsingJSONStringWithObjectMapper() throws IOException {
//given:
final ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
//when:
final Response response = objectMapper.readValue(JSON, Response.class);
//then:
assert response.getMessage().equals("Lista de Contactos");
//and:
assert response.getResult().equals("success");
//and:
assert response.getResponse().get(0).getId().equals(1);
//and:
assert response.getResponse().get(0).getContactName().equals("EDIFICADORA JUANA");
//and:
assert response.getResponse().get(0).getEmails().equals(Arrays.asList("oipoa#gmaio.com", "rst008#guan.com"));
//and:
assert response.getResponse().get(0).getNumbers().equals(Arrays.asList(24602254, 55655545));
}
static class Response {
private String result;
private String message;
private List<Data> response = new ArrayList<>();
public String getResult() {
return result;
}
public void setResult(String result) {
this.result = result;
}
public String getMessage() {
return message;
}
public void setMessage(String message) {
this.message = message;
}
public List<Data> getResponse() {
return response;
}
public void setResponse(List<Data> response) {
this.response = response;
}
}
static class Data {
private String id;
#JsonProperty("contact_name")
private String contactName;
private String numbers;
private String emails;
public String getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(String id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getContactName() {
return contactName;
}
public void setContactName(String contactName) {
this.contactName = contactName;
}
public List<Integer> getNumbers() {
return Stream.of(numbers.replaceAll("\\{", "")
.replaceAll("}", "")
.split(","))
.map(Integer::valueOf)
.collect(Collectors.toList());
}
public void setNumbers(String numbers) {
this.numbers = numbers;
}
public List<String> getEmails() {
return Arrays.asList(emails.replaceAll("\\{", "")
.replaceAll("}", "")
.split(","));
}
public void setEmails(String emails) {
this.emails = emails;
}
}
}
In this example I used same JSON response you receive and jackson-core library (http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-core/2.8.9) for mapping String to a POJOs (instead of String you can use InputStream, byte[] etc.). There are two POJOs: Response and Data. Response aggregates a list of Data objects. Additionally, Data's getEmails() and getNumbers() methods parse your input String to a list of expected objects. For example if you call setNumbers("{24602254,55655545}") then getNumbers() will return a list of Integers (you can use any numeric type instead) like [24602254, 55655545].
Other suggestions are also valid, e.g. iterating over collection of TreeMaps or JSONObjects. In this example we limit our focus to deal with Java objects with specific types instead of dealing with primitives like Object class for example.
The final solution also depends on your runtime environment. In this case you will have to add jackson-core dependency - it makes more sense if your project already uses Jackson for other reasons.

If you are using Set< Map< String, String>> set;
set.stream().forEach(map -> {
System.out.print("Id:" + map.get("id") + "ContactName:" + map.get("contact_name"));
});

Try this loop to extract every value from ArrayList of yours
List<LinkedTreeMap> list = new ArrayList<LinkedTreeMap>(); //assign result from API to list
for(LinkedTreeMap<String,String> contact : list){
for(String id : contact.keySet()){
if(id.equalsIgnoreCase("id")){
System.out.println("ID: "+ contact.get(id));
}else if(id.equalsIgnoreCase("contact_name")){
System.out.println("Contact Name: "+ contact.get(id));
}else{ //if it is list of numbers or e-mails
String result = contact.get(id);
result = result.replaceAll("{|}", ""); //removing { }
String[] array = result.split(",");
System.out.println(id+": "); // this will be either numbers or e-mails
//now iterating to get each value
for(String s : array){
System.out.println(s);
}
}
}
}

Extracting the value of an element from a JSON

I'm trying to make a test where I get some documents based on the id of the batch they belong to. More specifically, I want to check that a specific batchPublicId is in the response body. I am using okhttp for the test.
This a shorter version of the json:
{
"_embedded": {
"invoices": [
{
"type": "INVOICE",
"publicId": "27bc8426-17cf-4fe5-9278-64108ae05e4b",
"deliveryStatus": null,
"processingStatus": "INITIATED",
"batchPublicId": "0000000000000000000000001"
}
]
}
}
I'm new to json and this is how far I got with the problem:
String invoicesJsonData = response.body().string();
JSONObject invoicesJsonObject = new JSONObject(invoicesJsonData);
Assert.assertTrue(invoicesJsonObject.getJSONObject("_embedded") !=null && invoicesJsonObject.getJSONObject("_embedded").has("invoices"));
I would like to verify that batchPublicId has the value mentioned in the json. Is there a way to do this? Thank you.

String invoicesJsonData = response.body().string();
JSONObject invoicesJsonObject = new JSONObject(invoicesJsonData);
JSONObject invoicesJsonObject1 = invoicesJsonObject.getJSONObject("_embedded");
JSONArray f2=invoicesJsonObject1.getJSONArray("invoices");
for(int i=0;i<f2.length();i++){
JSONObject obj=f2.getJSONObject(i);
if(obj.get("batchPublicId")!=null){
System.out.println(obj.get("batchPublicId"));
}

You can do something like this,Which worked out for me sometimes back.
String invoicesJsonData = response.body().string();
JSONObject invoicesJsonObject = new JSONObject(invoicesJsonData);
JSONObject invoicesJsonObject = json.getJSONObject("invoicesJsonObject");
String batchPublicId = invoicesJsonObject.getString("batchPublicId");
System.out.println( "batchPublicId: " + batchPublicId );
if(batchPublicId !=null){
// do something
}
Not sure about the syntax.Giving you a hint.

you can check any keys is there in json object or not like below :
if(jsonObject1.has("batchPublicId")){
String batchPublicId = jsonObject1.optString("batchPublicId");
Log.i(getClass().getSimpleName(), "batchPublicId=" + batchPublicId);}
has method is used to find any key is there in jsonobject or not.

In my opinion, a better approach for this would be to create a POJO from this JSON string, and extract the information you need using simply the getters
For example:
Wrapper class:
#JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
#JsonRootName(value = "_embedded")
public class Embeded {
#JsonProperty("invoices")
private List<Invoice> invoices;
public Embeded() {}
public List<Invoice> getInvoices() {
return invoices;
}
public void setInvoices(List<Invoice> invoices) {
this.invoices = invoices;
}
}
Invoice class:
#JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class Invoice {
#JsonProperty("type")
private String type;
#JsonProperty("publicId")
private String publicId;
#JsonProperty("deliveryStatus")
private String deliveryStatus;
#JsonProperty("processingStatus")
private String processingStatus;
#JsonProperty("batchPublicId")
private String batchPublicId;
public Invoice() {}
public String getType() {
return type;
}
public void setType(String type) {
this.type = type;
}
public String getPublicId() {
return publicId;
}
public void setPublicId(String publicId) {
this.publicId = publicId;
}
public String getDeliveryStatus() {
return deliveryStatus;
}
public void setDeliveryStatus(String deliveryStatus) {
this.deliveryStatus = deliveryStatus;
}
public String getProcessingStatus() {
return processingStatus;
}
public void setProcessingStatus(String processingStatus) {
this.processingStatus = processingStatus;
}
public String getBatchPublicId() {
return batchPublicId;
}
public void setBatchPublicId(String batchPublicId) {
this.batchPublicId = batchPublicId;
}
}
Test:
public void json_test() throws JsonParseException, JsonMappingException, IOException {
String json = "{"
+ "\"_embedded\": {"
+ "\"invoices\": ["
+ "{"
+ "\"type\": \"INVOICE\","
+ "\"publicId\": \"27bc8426-17cf-4fe5-9278-64108ae05e4b\","
+ "\"deliveryStatus\": null,"
+ "\"processingStatus\": \"INITIATED\","
+ "\"batchPublicId\": \"0000000000000000000000001\""
+ "}"
+ "]"
+ "}"
+ "}";
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.configure(Feature.UNWRAP_ROOT_VALUE, true);
List<Invoice> invoices = mapper.readValue(json, Embeded.class).getInvoices();
Assert.assertTrue(StringUtils.equals(invoices.get(0).getBatchPublicId(), "0000000000000000000000001"));
}

If I understand your right, you just need to call:
Assert.assertTrue(invoicesJsonObject.getString("batchPublicId").equals("0000000000000000000000001"));"

If you want to create a test for JSON Validation, you can use the JSONAssert.
JSONAsset give the method assertEquals, that compare two json structures, strict identic or not.
final String expected_result = YOUR_EXPECTED_RESULT;
JSONAssert.assertEquals(YOUR_EXPECTED_JSON_RESULT, RESULT_FROM_RESPONSE_BODY, false);
The last boolean parameter defines if you want an strict comparation or just compare if your expected result is in result from response.