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Appending JSONObjects when writing to a file

I'm trying to append JSONObjects inside a JSONArray that is called Records .
The first time I save it it saves it this way that is ok
{
"Records": [
{
"travelTime": 2,
"totalDistance": 0,
"pace": 0,
"kCalBurned": 0,
"latlng": "[lat\/lng: (-32.1521234,-63.66412321)]"
}
]
}
But when I try to append again a new jsonobject inside Records, it creates a new JSONArray for it, and I just want to append a new object inside records
{
"Records": [
{
"travelTime": 2,
"totalDistance": 0,
"pace": 0,
"kCalBurned": 0,
"latlng": "[lat\/lng: (-31.6432292,-63.3667462)]"
}
]
}{
"Records": [
{
"travelTime": 1,
"totalDistance": 0,
"pace": 0,
"kCalBurned": 0,
"latlng": "[lat\/lng: (-31.9522431,-64.3461241)]"
}
]
}
This is the code I use to save the Records
private void writeJsonData(long travelTime,float totalDistance, float pace, float kCalBurned, LinkedList<LatLng> latlng){
String jsonStr = "";
JSONObject records = new JSONObject();
try {
records.put("travelTime", travelTime);
records.put("totalDistance", totalDistance);
records.put("pace", pace);
records.put("kCalBurned", kCalBurned);
records.put("latlng", latlng);
JSONArray jsonArray = new JSONArray();
jsonArray.put(records);
JSONObject recordsObj = new JSONObject();
recordsObj.put("Records", jsonArray);
jsonStr = recordsObj.toString();
} catch (JSONException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
String file_name = "records.json";
FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = null;
try {
fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(new File(mContext.getFilesDir(),file_name),true);
fileOutputStream.write(jsonStr.getBytes());
fileOutputStream.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

You need a JSON parser so that you can locate the "Records" array inside the file and place the new data there. I used the "json simple" library (jar can be found here: https://code.google.com/archive/p/json-simple/downloads).
First you parse the file:
JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
JSONObject records = null;
try {
records = (JSONObject) parser.parse(new FileReader("records.json"));
} catch (ParseException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
Then you locate the Records JSONArray. In there you want to append the new record:
JSONArray r = (JSONArray) records.get("Records");
Create the new record:
JSONObject NewObj = new JSONObject();
NewObj.put("travelTime", travelTime);
NewObj.put("totalDistance", totalDistance);
NewObj.put("pace", pace);
NewObj.put("kCalBurned", kCalBurned);
NewObj.put("latlng", latlng);
Add the new record to the "Records" JSONArray:
r.add(NewObj);
Write to file:
try (FileWriter file = new FileWriter("records.json")) {
file.write(records.toJSONString());
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}

Passing 2nd parameter to true in FileOutputStream constructor will
append jsonObject at the end of file.
To append it with JSON array inside Records object, you've to read the file first, append the new JSON object and write it back to file.
Use GSON library for conversion between java class & jSON. So you don't have to create JSON object manually each time by putting each key-pair.
Create a Java class to hold whole Records object
public class Record
{
#SerializedName("Records")
private List<Object> recordsList;
public Record()
{
this. recordsList = new ArrayList<>();
}
public List<Object> getRecordsList()
{
return recordsList;
}
}
Now create JAVA Model class to hold travel info
public class Travel {
private Integer travelTime;
private Integer totalDistance;
private Integer pace;
private Integer kCalBurned;
private LinkedList<LatLng> latlng;
public Integer getTravelTime() {
return travelTime;
}
public void setTravelTime(Integer travelTime) {
this.travelTime = travelTime;
}
public Integer getTotalDistance() {
return totalDistance;
}
public void setTotalDistance(Integer totalDistance) {
this.totalDistance = totalDistance;
}
public Integer getPace() {
return pace;
}
public void setPace(Integer pace) {
this.pace = pace;
}
public Integer getKCalBurned() {
return kCalBurned;
}
public void setKCalBurned(Integer kCalBurned) {
this.kCalBurned = kCalBurned;
}
public LinkedList<LatLng> getLatlng() {
return latlng;
}
public void setLatlng(LinkedList<LatLng> latlng) {
this.latlng = latlng;
}
}
Here is utility class with a function to append new JSON inside Records object. It will check if directory & file are created otherwise will create both.If file exist, it will read the file, append the new JSON object to list and write it back into the same file. You can change the directory & file name with yours.
Note: This class is written in Kotlin. Here is reference how to setup Android Studio for Kotlin
class Logger {
companion object {
private const val LOG_FILE_FOLDER = "Logs"
private const val LOG_FILE_NAME = "transaction"
private const val DATE_FORMAT = "yyyy-MM-dd"
private val logFileName: String
#SuppressLint("SimpleDateFormat")
get() {
var fileName = LOG_FILE_NAME
val dateFormat = SimpleDateFormat(DATE_FORMAT)
fileName += "_" + dateFormat.format(Date()) + ".json"
return fileName
}
fun logFile(json: Any) {
try {
val directoryPath = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().path + "/" + LOG_FILE_FOLDER
val loggingDirectoryPath = File(directoryPath)
var loggingFile = File("$directoryPath/$logFileName")
if (loggingDirectoryPath.mkdirs() || loggingDirectoryPath.isDirectory) {
var isFileReady = true
var isNewFile = false
if (!loggingFile.exists()) {
isFileReady = false
try {
loggingFile.createNewFile()
isNewFile = true
isFileReady = true
} catch (e: Exception) {
e.printStackTrace()
}
} else {
val lastFile = getLastFile(loggingFile.name, directoryPath)
loggingFile = File("$directoryPath/$lastFile")
val fileSize = getFileSize(loggingFile)
}
if (isFileReady) {
var jsonString: String? = null
if (!isNewFile) {
//Get already stored JsonObject
val stream = FileInputStream(loggingFile)
try {
val fileChannel = stream.channel
val mappedByteBuffer = fileChannel.map(FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY, 0, fileChannel.size())
jsonString = Charset.defaultCharset().decode(mappedByteBuffer).toString()
} catch (e: Exception) {
e.printStackTrace()
} finally {
stream.close()
}
}
//Create record object
val record = if (!jsonString.isNullOrEmpty()) {
Gson().fromJson(jsonString, Record::class.java)
} else {
Record()
}
//Append the current json
record.recordList.add(json)
//create json to save
val jsonToSave = Gson().toJson(record)
val bufferedOutputStream: BufferedOutputStream
try {
bufferedOutputStream = BufferedOutputStream(FileOutputStream(loggingFile))
bufferedOutputStream.write(jsonToSave.toByteArray())
bufferedOutputStream.flush()
bufferedOutputStream.close()
} catch (e4: FileNotFoundException) {
e4.printStackTrace()
} catch (e: IOException) {
e.printStackTrace()
} finally {
System.gc()
}
}
}
} catch (ex: Exception) {
ex.printStackTrace()
}
}
}
}
At the end, you can log the file withlogFile method
Logger.Companion.logFile(travel);
Cheers :)

AsyncTask doInBackground to return multiple strings

I'm trying to build a very basic weather app in android studio. I am using AsyncClass to return multiple strings.
As you can see in the code, I used a class named "Wrapper" that is used to store my strings so I can just return a class object and use it in the onPostExecute method of the AsyncTask. The problem I am facing is that when I test the app, all of the returned Strings somehow are undefined (the default for the Wrapper class). This means the strings are not being updated in the doInBackground method and I can't seem to figure out why!
My Activity
#Override
public void onConnectionFailed(ConnectionResult connectionResult) {
Log.i(MainActivity.class.getSimpleName(), "Can't connect to Google Play Services!");
}
private class Wrapper
{
String Temperature = "UNDEFINED";
String city = "UNDEFINED";
String country = "UNDEFINED";
}
private class GetWeatherTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, Wrapper> {
private TextView textView;
public GetWeatherTask(TextView textView) {
this.textView = textView;
}
#Override
protected Wrapper doInBackground(String... strings) {
Wrapper w = new Wrapper();
String Temperature = "x";
String city = "y";
String country = "z";
try {
URL url = new URL(strings[0]);
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
InputStream stream = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream));
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
String inputString;
while ((inputString = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
builder.append(inputString);
}
JSONObject topLevel = new JSONObject(builder.toString());
JSONObject main = topLevel.getJSONObject("main");
JSONObject cityobj = topLevel.getJSONObject("city");
Temperature = String.valueOf(main.getDouble("temp"));
city = cityobj.getString("name");
country = cityobj.getString("country");
w.Temperature= Temperature;
w.city= city;
w.country=country;
urlConnection.disconnect();
} catch (IOException | JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return w;
}
#Override
protected void onPostExecute(Wrapper w) {
textView.setText("Current Temperature: " + w.Temperature + " C" + (char) 0x00B0
+"\n" + "Current Location: "+ w.country +"\n" + "City: "+ w.city );
}
}
}
UPDATE:
turned out that that I was using the wrong url in my code,I was using :
http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=%f&lon=%f&units=%s&appid=%s
Instead I should've been using:
http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast?lat=%f&lon=%f&units=%s&appid=%s
-aka instead of weather I should've been using forcast

Your error starts here
JSONObject main = topLevel.getJSONObject("main");
Probably because the topLevel object has no "main" key.
{
"city":{ },
"cod":"200",
"message":0.1859,
"cnt":40,
"list":[ ]
}
Throw your JSON into here. https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/
You'll notice that there are many, many "main" keys that are within the "list" element, but you have to parse those starting from getJSONArray("list").
Basically, something like this
String city = "undefined";
String country = "undefined";
List<Double> temperatures = new ArrayList<Double>();
try {
JSONObject object = new JSONObject(builder.toString());
JSONObject jCity = object.getJSONObject("city");
city = jCity.getString("name");
country = jCity.getString("country");
JSONArray weatherList = object.getJSONArray("list");
for (int i = 0; i < weatherList.length(); i++) {
JSONObject listObject = weatherList.getJSONObject(i);
double temp = listObject.getJSONObject("main").getDouble("temp");
temperatures.add(temp);
}
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return new Wrapper(city, country, temperatures);

After studying your code, either your try block is failing, which is returning your object, but empty, or there is something wrong with your JSON parsing. If you could show us the JSON you are trying to parse that would be a great help.
That being said, the fact that it is still showing as "UNDEFINED" is because that is how you initialised it, and becuase (the JSON parse is likely failing), the object is being returned in an un-edited state.
EDIT:
You are parsing the JSON wrong. You are trying to find an object called "main" in the top directory, however the main object only exists inside of an array called list!
Please look here for a more easy to see and visual representation: http://prntscr.com/dlhlrk
You can use this site to help visualise your JSON and create an appropriate soluton based upon it. https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/

Looking at the API you posted earlier (api.openweathermap.org) you are trying to access variables that don't exist. I suggest you have a look at what the API returns and try getting the variables one by one if you are getting a JSONException
EDIT:
What API you are using? In your initial post you said it was http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather but in a comment above you said it was http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/forecast.
If you're using the weather API (as initially stated) you can use the below:
#Override
protected Wrapper doInBackground(String... strings) {
Wrapper w = new Wrapper();
try {
URL url = new URL(strings[0]);
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
InputStream stream = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream));
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
String inputString;
while ((inputString = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
builder.append(inputString);
}
Log.d("JSON", builder.toString());
JSONObject topLevel = new JSONObject(builder.toString());
JSONObject main = topLevel.getJSONObject("main");
JSONObject sys = topLevel.getJSONObject("sys");
w.Temperature = String.valueOf(main.getDouble("temp"));
w.city = topLevel.getString("name");
w.country = sys.getString("country");
urlConnection.disconnect();
} catch (IOException | JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return w;
}

Android - Save JSON from InputStream into String

I'm trying to parse this JSON I get from a HttpURLConnection in Android.
{
"responsejson":
{
"value1": [
{
"data": "Call",
"label": "Call",
"default": false
},
{
"data": "Email",
"label": "Email",
"default": false
}
],
"value2": [
{
"attributes": {
"type": "Status",
"url": "/..."
},
"IsOpened": false,
"IsDefault": true,
"TechLabel": "NotStarted",
"Id": "01Jb"
},
{
"attributes": {
"type": "Status",
"url": "/..."
},
"IsOpened": false,
"IsDefault": false,
"TechLabel": "InProgress",
"Id": "01Jb"
},
{
"attributes": {
"type": "Status",
"url": "/..."
},
"IsOpened": true,
"IsDefault": false,
"TechLabel": "Completed",
"Id": "01Jb"
}
],
...
}
}
What I want to do is save the content of value1 in a string, the content of value2 in another string,... because I need to store it in the database, so in the future I can load and parse it. I am using JsonReader but it's not possible to do this with JsonReader.
// ...
inputStream = conn.getInputStream();
JsonReader json = new JsonReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
json.beginObject();
while (json.hasNext()) {
String valueName = json.nextName();
// String content = ?????
}
json.endObject();
// ...
Any ideas? Custom objects are not possible due to we never know which values the JSON is going to show.

Use this to convert JSON array to string
private String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) {
/*
* To convert the InputStream to String we use the
* BufferedReader.readLine() method. We iterate until the
* BufferedReader return null which means there's no more data to
* read. Each line will appended to a StringBuilder and returned as
* String.
*/
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(is));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line = null;
try {
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line + "\n");
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
is.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return sb.toString();
}

Use Gson to parse the JSON that you receive in InputStream. Then you can get the ArrayList from that parsed object. Again, use Gson to serialize the arraylist back to JSON.

This code works for your example json.
public class Value1 {
public String data,label;
#SerializedName("default")
public boolean isdefault;
}
public class Value2 {
public Attributes attributes;
public boolean IsOpened,IsDefault;
public String TechLabel,Id;
}
public class Attributes {
public String type,url;
}
String jsonString = "{\"responsejson\":{\"value1\":[{\"data\":\"Call\",\"label\":\"Call\",\"default\":false},{\"data\":\"Email\",\"label\":\"Email\",\"default\":false}],\"value2\":[{\"attributes\":{\"type\":\"Status\",\"url\":\"/...\"},\"IsOpened\":false,\"IsDefault\":true,\"TechLabel\":\"NotStarted\",\"Id\":\"01Jb\"},{\"attributes\":{\"type\":\"Status\",\"url\":\"/...\"},\"IsOpened\":false,\"IsDefault\":false,\"TechLabel\":\"InProgress\",\"Id\":\"01Jb\"},{\"attributes\":{\"type\":\"Status\",\"url\":\"/...\"},\"IsOpened\":true,\"IsDefault\":false,\"TechLabel\":\"Completed\",\"Id\":\"01Jb\"}]}}";
try {
org.json.JSONObject object = new JSONObject(jsonString);
jsonString = object.getString("responsejson");
} catch (JSONException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
JsonParser parser = new JsonParser();
JsonObject obj = parser.parse(jsonString).getAsJsonObject();
List<Value1> list1 = new Gson().fromJson(obj.get("value1"), new TypeToken<List<Value1>>() {}.getType());
List<Value2> list2 = new Gson().fromJson(obj.get("value2"), new TypeToken<List<Value2>>() {}.getType());

Since you do not know json structure beforehand, your best bet is to use GSON 2.0 feature that supports default maps and lists.
Use the following code to deserialize :
Object object = new Gson().fromJson(jsonString, Object.class);
The created object is a Map (com.google.gson.internal.LinkedTreeMap) which looks like this (for the above example)
{responsejson={value1=[{data=Call, label=Call, default=false}, {data=Email, label=Email, default=false}], value2=[{attributes={type=Status, url=/...}, IsOpened=false, IsDefault=true, TechLabel=NotStarted, Id=01Jb}, {attributes={type=Status, url=/...}, IsOpened=false, IsDefault=false, TechLabel=InProgress, Id=01Jb}, {attributes={type=Status, url=/...}, IsOpened=true, IsDefault=false, TechLabel=Completed, Id=01Jb}]}}
Use the generated object, parse it and save it in your db.
You can serialize that map back to JSON using :
String json = new Gson().toJson(object);
Hope this helps you.

just read the stream regularly and save it into a regular String, then parse that String :
// to get the general object that contains all the values
JSONObject json = new JSONObject(json_readed);
JSONObject response = json.getJSONObject("responsejson");
// to get the values
List<JSONArray> all_values = new ArrayList<JSONArray>();
Iterator<?> keys = response.keys();
while( keys.hasNext() ){
String value = (String)keys.next();
if( response.get(value) instanceof JSONArray ){
all_values.add(response.getJSONArray(value));
}
}
now you have all the values(whatever what's it's name id) combined into that ArrayList called(all_values).
Note that the JSON you provided in your question is missing opening"{" and closing"}" brackets in the beginning and the ending of it.

What you need to do is, first create a JsonObject from the json string representation, at this stage no specifics are given.
JSONObject object = new JSONObject("json_here"); //catch all exceptions thrown.
Interestingly you mentioned that the structure varies, it consider that weird, i am guessing you are pulling from different api instances. What you need to do , create a pojo class mapping the api instance name to the returned json string body.
After you attained the Object of interest, consider using GSON. A Java serialization/deserialization library to convert Java Objects into JSON and back. What you then need to do is to,serialize the pojo class,into an object.Then store into the database. I recommend using realm and not SQLite.
Example serializing the class.
class JClass {
private String jType;
private String json_body;
JClass() {
// no-args constructor
}
}
JClass j = new JClass();
j.jType ="some_type";
j.json_body = "json_body_here";
Gson gson = new Gson();
String json = gson.toJson(j);
then get the json String object, and store in database of choice.

/*
* Method to parse InputStream to String JSON
* */
private String parse(InputStream in){
StringBuilder result;
try {
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
result = new StringBuilder();
String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
result.append(line);
}
Log.d("JSON Parser", "result: " + result.toString());
return result.toString();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return null;
}
}

JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
List<String> output = new ArrayList<String>();
try {
Object obj = parser.parse(data); // data is JSON
JSONObject jsonObject = (JSONObject) obj;
JSONArray msg = (JSONArray) jsonObject.get("value1");
JSONArray msg2 = (JSONArray) jsonObject.get("value2");
Iterator<String> iterator = msg.iterator();
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
output.add(iterator.next());
}
String[] stringArray = output.toArray(new String[0]);
return stringArray;
} catch (Exception e) {
return null;
}

IllegalArgumentException JSON

I am trying to put String[] in jsonObject and getting following error
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid type of value. Type:
[[Ljava.lang.String;] with value: [[Ljava.lang.String;#189db56] at
com.ibm.json.java.JSONObject.put(JSONObject.java:241)
Please help me to resolve this.
Thanks
public JSONObject toJSONObject() {
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject();
//Use reflection to get a list of all get methods
//and add there corresponding values to the JSON object
Class cl = dto.getClass();
logger.infoFormat("Converting {0} to JSON Object", cl.getName());
Method[] methods = cl.getDeclaredMethods();
for (Method method : methods) {
String methodName = method.getName();
if (methodName.startsWith("get")) {
logger.infoFormat("Processing method - {0}", methodName);
//Check for no parameters
if (method.getParameterTypes().length == 0) {
String tag = getLabel(method);
Object tagValue = new Object();
try {
tagValue = method.invoke(dto);
} catch (Exception e) {
logger.errorFormat("Error invoking method - {0}", method.getName());
}
if (method.getReturnType().isAssignableFrom(BaseDTO.class)) {
DTOSerializer serializer = new DTOSerializer((BaseDTO) tagValue);
jsonObject.put(tag, serializer.toJSONObject());
} else if (method.getReturnType().isAssignableFrom(List.class)) {
ListSerializer serializer = new ListSerializer((List<BaseDTO>) tagValue);
jsonObject.put(tag, serializer.toJSONArray());
} else {
if (tagValue != null) jsonObject.put(tag, tagValue);
}
}
}
}
return(jsonObject);
}

try
jsonObject.put("yourKey", Arrays.asList(yorStringArray));
As you should read the manual first http://www.json.org/javadoc/org/json/JSONObject.html there is no variation of it expects an Object[]

Maybe you should take a look at google-gson.
I like it very much to work with json in Java.

How to parse a JSON Input stream

I am using java to call a url that returns a JSON object:
url = new URL("my URl");
urlInputStream = url.openConnection().getInputStream();
How can I convert the response into string form and parse it?

I would suggest you have to use a Reader to convert your InputStream in.
BufferedReader streamReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in, "UTF-8"));
StringBuilder responseStrBuilder = new StringBuilder();
String inputStr;
while ((inputStr = streamReader.readLine()) != null)
responseStrBuilder.append(inputStr);
new JSONObject(responseStrBuilder.toString());
I tried in.toString() but it returns:
getClass().getName() + '#' + Integer.toHexString(hashCode())
(like documentation says it derives to toString from Object)

All the current answers assume that it is okay to pull the entire JSON into memory where the advantage of an InputStream is that you can read the input little by little. If you would like to avoid reading the entire Json file at once then I would suggest using the Jackson library (which is my personal favorite but I'm sure others like Gson have similar functions).
With Jackson you can use a JsonParser to read one section at a time. Below is an example of code I wrote that wraps the reading of an Array of JsonObjects in an Iterator. If you just want to see an example of Jackson, look at the initJsonParser, initFirstElement, and initNextObject methods.
public class JsonObjectIterator implements Iterator<Map<String, Object>>, Closeable {
private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(JsonObjectIterator.class);
private final InputStream inputStream;
private JsonParser jsonParser;
private boolean isInitialized;
private Map<String, Object> nextObject;
public JsonObjectIterator(final InputStream inputStream) {
this.inputStream = inputStream;
this.isInitialized = false;
this.nextObject = null;
}
private void init() {
this.initJsonParser();
this.initFirstElement();
this.isInitialized = true;
}
private void initJsonParser() {
final ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
final JsonFactory jsonFactory = objectMapper.getFactory();
try {
this.jsonParser = jsonFactory.createParser(inputStream);
} catch (final IOException e) {
LOG.error("There was a problem setting up the JsonParser: " + e.getMessage(), e);
throw new RuntimeException("There was a problem setting up the JsonParser: " + e.getMessage(), e);
}
}
private void initFirstElement() {
try {
// Check that the first element is the start of an array
final JsonToken arrayStartToken = this.jsonParser.nextToken();
if (arrayStartToken != JsonToken.START_ARRAY) {
throw new IllegalStateException("The first element of the Json structure was expected to be a start array token, but it was: " + arrayStartToken);
}
// Initialize the first object
this.initNextObject();
} catch (final Exception e) {
LOG.error("There was a problem initializing the first element of the Json Structure: " + e.getMessage(), e);
throw new RuntimeException("There was a problem initializing the first element of the Json Structure: " + e.getMessage(), e);
}
}
private void initNextObject() {
try {
final JsonToken nextToken = this.jsonParser.nextToken();
// Check for the end of the array which will mean we're done
if (nextToken == JsonToken.END_ARRAY) {
this.nextObject = null;
return;
}
// Make sure the next token is the start of an object
if (nextToken != JsonToken.START_OBJECT) {
throw new IllegalStateException("The next token of Json structure was expected to be a start object token, but it was: " + nextToken);
}
// Get the next product and make sure it's not null
this.nextObject = this.jsonParser.readValueAs(new TypeReference<Map<String, Object>>() { });
if (this.nextObject == null) {
throw new IllegalStateException("The next parsed object of the Json structure was null");
}
} catch (final Exception e) {
LOG.error("There was a problem initializing the next Object: " + e.getMessage(), e);
throw new RuntimeException("There was a problem initializing the next Object: " + e.getMessage(), e);
}
}
#Override
public boolean hasNext() {
if (!this.isInitialized) {
this.init();
}
return this.nextObject != null;
}
#Override
public Map<String, Object> next() {
// This method will return the current object and initialize the next object so hasNext will always have knowledge of the current state
// Makes sure we're initialized first
if (!this.isInitialized) {
this.init();
}
// Store the current next object for return
final Map<String, Object> currentNextObject = this.nextObject;
// Initialize the next object
this.initNextObject();
return currentNextObject;
}
#Override
public void close() throws IOException {
IOUtils.closeQuietly(this.jsonParser);
IOUtils.closeQuietly(this.inputStream);
}
}
If you don't care about memory usage, then it would certainly be easier to read the entire file and parse it as one big Json as mentioned in other answers.

For those that pointed out the fact that you can't use the toString method of InputStream like this see https://stackoverflow.com/a/5445161/1304830 :
My correct answer would be then :
import org.json.JSONObject;
public static String convertStreamToString(java.io.InputStream is) {
java.util.Scanner s = new java.util.Scanner(is).useDelimiter("\\A");
return s.hasNext() ? s.next() : "";
}
...
JSONObject json = new JSONObject(convertStreamToString(url.openStream());

If you like to use Jackson Databind (which Spring uses by default for its HttpMessageConverters), then you may use the ObjectMapper.readTree(InputStream) API. For example,
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
JsonNode json = mapper.readTree(myInputStream);

use jackson to convert json input stream to the map or object http://jackson.codehaus.org/
there are also some other usefull libraries for json, you can google: json java

Use a library.
GSON
Jackson
or one of many other JSON libraries that are out there.

Kotlin version with Gson
to read the response JSON:
val response = BufferedReader(
InputStreamReader(conn.inputStream, "UTF-8")
).use { it.readText() }
to parse response we can use Gson:
val model = Gson().fromJson(response, YourModelClass::class.java)

This example reads all objects from a stream of objects,
it is assumed that you need CustomObjects instead of a Map:
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
JsonParser parser = mapper.getFactory().createParser( source );
if(parser.nextToken() != JsonToken.START_ARRAY) {
throw new IllegalStateException("Expected an array");
}
while(parser.nextToken() == JsonToken.START_OBJECT) {
// read everything from this START_OBJECT to the matching END_OBJECT
// and return it as a tree model ObjectNode
ObjectNode node = mapper.readTree(parser);
CustomObject custom = mapper.convertValue( node, CustomObject.class );
// do whatever you need to do with this object
System.out.println( "" + custom );
}
parser.close();
This answer was composed by using : Use Jackson To Stream Parse an Array of Json Objects and Convert JsonNode into Object

I suggest use javax.json.Json factory as less verbose possible solution:
JsonObject json = Json.createReader(yourInputStream).readObject();
Enjoy!

if you have JSON file you can set it on assets folder then call it using this code
InputStream in = mResources.getAssets().open("fragrances.json");
// where mResources object from Resources class

{
InputStream is = HTTPClient.get(url);
InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(is);
JSONTokener tokenizer = new JSONTokener(reader);
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(tokenizer);
}