Assignment: I am using json-simple. How can I convert this json data into individual java strings?
(Please forgive me if you think that this is a low-level question - I am new to JSON, so I don't know much about that - I've searched a lot, but I couldn't find any answers)
I can get the data if there is only one object ... like this ...
{
"name": "Abhi",
"age": "21"
}
But, I can't get the data if it is in the array
[{
"name": "Abhi",
"age": "21"
}, {
"name": "shek",
"age": "7"
}]
my program logic for json object
JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
Object obj = parser.parse(new FileReader("A:/c/dataFile.json"));
JSONObject jObj = (JSONObject) obj;
String gName = (String) jObj.get("name");
String gAge = (String) jObj.get("age");
System.out.println(gName);
System.out.println(gAge);
Can anyone show me how to get the data? maybe a code snippet?
Thanks in advance for your answer!
Because in your second case you are getting JSONArray
you may need to check the instance of obj as
if (jObj instanceof JSONObject)
else if (jObj instanceof JSONArray)
Related
{
"Object1": {
"description": "An object",
"data": "more data"
},
"Object2": {
"description": "An object",
"data": "more data"
}
}
How would I use GSON to iterate over the elements in this JSON Object to easily parse each element one by one?
Yes there is, but PrabhakarP is right, associative arrays in JSON are objects. So in your case,
{
"Object1": {
"description": "An object",
"data": "more data"
}
}
You would have a meta-object containing each array element as a property, which doesn't really make sense. You should parse it differently.
But if you still need, in GSON, then try ,
JsonArray body = gson.fromJson(yourString, JsonArray.class);
JSONObject metaObj = new JSONObject();
for (JsonElement currEle : paymentsArray) {
JSONObject currObj = currEle.getAsJsonObject();
String nameVal = currObj.get("name");
currObj.remove("name");
metaObj.addProperty(nameVal, currObj);
}
I would suggest you to add a property to each object in array and use it
I looked at the man page and found I could loop over the set of members in the object.
JsonObject obj = gson.fromJson(jsonFile, JsonObject.class);
for(Map.Entry<String, JsonElement> element : obj.entrySet()) {
Object obj = gson.fromJson(element.getValue(), Object.class);
// do stuff with the object
}
I apologize if the title of my question is a bit misleading.
I created a POJO to hold CholesterolInformation about a user (HDL, LDL, Triglycerides, units, etc...). I now want to use my JSONObject to create an ArrayList so that I can generate some data points.
My JSONObject contains the following:
{
"cholesterol": [
{
"date": "2014-01-01",
"hdl": "56464.0",
"ldl": "46494.0",
"triGlycaride": "0.0",
"uid": "email#email.com",
"unit": "mg"
},
{
"date": "2014-01-01",
"hdl": "5.0",
"ldl": "5.0",
"triGlycaride": "0.0",
"uid": "email#email.com",
"unit": "mg"
},
{
"date": "2014-01-01",
"hdl": "6.0",
"ldl": "6.0",
"triGlycaride": "0.0",
"uid": "email#email.com",
"unit": "mg"
}
]
}
My question is, how would one go about iterating through this JSON Object? I would like to maybe use a for each, and create a new object to add to the ArrayList in each iteration... Do you have any advice or suggestions?
Note: I have never used the JSONObject before, and thus am not too familiar with its usage.
EDIT: Thanks everybody, that was exactly what I was looking for. I need to get more familiar with JSON manipulation. And I will look into GSON as well!
Use GSON as suggested by Eric as you already created POJO.
Gson gson = new Gson();
Type type = new TypeToken<List<POJO>>() {}.getType();
List<POJO> mList = gson.fromJson(your_json_string_here, type);
It's time to learn some JSON manipulation:
JSONArray array = yourJsonObject.optJSONArray("cholesterol");
if (array != null) {
for (int i=0; i< array.length; i++) {
JSONObject object = array.optJSONObject(i);
if (object != null) {
// this is where you manipulate all the date, hdl, ldl...etc
}
}
}
you also should check for null before accessing the json
If I understand you correctly, you want to create an ArrayList of your POJO? I assume you have getters and setters inside your POJO class. Initialize an ArrayList somewhere near the top like this
private ArrayList<CholesterolInformation> mCholesterol;
Now, parse through your json like this
JSONobject data = new JSONObject(jsonStringData);
JSONArray cholesterol = data.getJSONArray("cholesterol");
for(int i = 0; i < cholesterol.length; i++)
{
JSONObject object = cholesterol.getJSONObject(i);
// Create a new object of your POJO class
CholesterolInformation ci = new CholesterolInformation();
// Get value from JSON
String date = object.getString("date");
// Set value to your object using your setter method
ci.setDate(date);
String hdl = object.getString("hdl");
ci.setHdl(hdl);
.....
.....
// Finally, add the object to your arraylist
mCholesterol.add(ci);
}
I hope someone can show me where i'm doing it wrong...
I'm using sendgrid for my email tracking and it is posting a JSON like the following:
[
{
"email": "john.doe#sendgrid.com",
"timestamp": 1337966815,
"event": "click",
"url": "http://sendgrid.com"
"userid": "1123",
"template": "welcome"
}
]
Now i want to get the value of for example for "timestamp" which is 1337966815 . I've tried the following:
StringBuffer jb = new StringBuffer();
String line = null;
try {
BufferedReader reader = req.getReader();
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
jb.append(line);
} catch (Exception e) { /*report an error*/ }
String jsonString = jb.toString();
Gson gson = new Gson();
JsonObject jsonObject = gson.fromJson(jsonString, JsonObject.class);
String timeStam = jsonObject.get(timestamp).toString();
The string of jsonString gives me the following which i think is in the right format:
[ { "email": "john.doe#sendgrid.com", "timestamp": 1337966815, "event": "click", "url": "http://sendgrid.com" "userid": "1123", "template": "welcome" }]
But i'm getting the following error at this line of code - JsonObject jsonObject = gson.fromJson(jsonString, JsonObject.class);
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_OBJECT but was STRING at line 1 column 52
What am I doing wrong? Is it the format of jsonString that is confusing the JsonObject?
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Kind regards
Francois
The JSON you show in both examples is invalid. There is a comma missing after "url":"http://sendgrid.com"
Ignoring that, the JSON you show is an array of JSON objects, not an object. This is what the [] denotes (correcting the missing comma):
[
{
"email": "john.doe#sendgrid.com",
"timestamp": 1337966815,
"event": "click",
"url": "http://sendgrid.com",
"userid": "1123",
"template": "welcome"
}
]
If you are not mapping this JSON to a Java POJO, then you would want to use Gson's JsonParser to parse your String to a JsonElement (Note you could even use it to parse directly from the Stream, but this if for how you have your code now).
JsonElement je = new JsonParser().parse(jsonString);
Now you have what's called a "parse tree". This JsonElement is the root. To access it as an array you're going to do:
JsonArray myArray = je.getAsJsonArray();
You only show this array containing one object, but let's say it could have more than one. By iterating through the array you can do:
for (JsonElement e : myArray)
{
// Access the element as a JsonObject
JsonObject jo = e.getAsJsonObject();
// Get the `timestamp` element from the object
// since it's a number, we get it as a JsonPrimitive
JsonPrimitive tsPrimitive = jo.getAsJsonPrimitive("timestamp");
// get the primitive as a Java long
long timestamp = tsPrimitive.getAsLong();
System.out.println("Timestamp: " + timestamp);
}
Realize that Gson primarily is meant for Object Relational Mapping where you want to take that JSON and have it converted to a Java object. This is actually a lot simpler:
public class ResponseObject {
public String email;
public long timestamp;
public String event;
public String url;
public String userid;
public String template;
}
Because you have array of these, you want to use a TypeToken and Type to indicate your JSON is a List of these ResponseObject objects:
Type myListType = new TypeToken<List<ResponseObject>>(){}.getType();
List<ResponseObject> myList = new Gson().fromJson(jsonString, myListType);
I am trying to parse json output from neo4j in java as:
Object obj = parser.parse(new FileReader("D:\\neo4j.json"));
JSONArray json = (JSONArray) obj;
System.out.println(json.size());
for (int i = 0; i < json.size(); i++) {
JSONObject jsonObject = (JSONObject) json.get(i);
String data = (String);
jsonObject.get("outgoing_relationships");
String name = (String) jsonObject.get("name");
System.out.println(data);
System.out.println(name);
}
Can somebody help me to get values inside "data" element:
I have json output from neo4j as follows:
[{
"outgoing_relationships": "http://host1.in:7474/db/data/node/133/relationships/out",
"data": {
"MOTHERS_NAME": "PARVEEN BAGEM",
"MOBILE_NO": "9211573758",
"GENDER": "M",
"name": "MOHD",
"TEL_NO": "0120-",
"PINCODE": "110001"
},
"traverse": "http://host1.in:7474/db/data/node/133/traverse/{returnType}",
"all_typed_relationships": "http://host1.in:7474/db/data/node/133/relationships/all/{-list|&|types}",
"property": "http://host1.in:7474/db/data/node/133/properties/{key}",
"self": "http://host1.in:7474/db/data/node/133",
"properties": "http://lhost1.in:7474/db/data/node/133/properties",
"outgoing_typed_relationships": "http://host1.in:7474/db/data/node/133/relationships/out/{-list|&|types}",
"incoming_relationships": "http://host1.in:7474/db/data/node/133/relationships/in",
"extensions": {
},
"create_relationship": "http://host1.in:7474/db/data/node/133/relationships",
"paged_traverse": "http://host1.in:7474/db/data/node/133/paged/traverse/{returnType}{?pageSize,leaseTime}",
"all_relationships": "http://host1.in:7474/db/data/node/133/relationships/all",
"incoming_typed_relationships": "http://host1.in:7474/db/data/node/133/relationships/in/{-list|&|types}"
}]
Regards,
Jayendra
You can try following way. Inside the for loop get the data node as JSONObject. From that data node you can extract every property. I just extracted mother name from data.
JSONObject data = (JSONObject) jsonObject.get("data");
final String motherName = (String) data.get("MOTHERS_NAME");
What library are you using to parse JSON ? I'd recommend that you use Jackson
For eg: To get the data you read from the file in a Map, you can write a method like this.
#SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
public static Map toMap(Object object) throws JsonProcessingException{ ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
return mapper.convertValue(object, Map.class);
}
My doubt is if there is any tool on-line or not to generate a string from a JSON. For example, I have this JSON:
{
"my_json": [
{
"number": 20,
"name": "androider",
},
{
"id": 3432,
"name": "other_name",
}
]
}
If I want to declare a String in my code with this values, so I have to write many quotation marks to have my JSON in a String acceptable format.
So I want to know if thre is some tool to generate this String?
Some good choices are:
Jackson
Gson
They have built in methods to do just whatever you need to do in an efficient way...
I can't quite tell what you want from your original question, but I assume you are trying to output a Java String that contains some JSON that you have generated.
You should use JSONObject and JSONArray to accomplish this.
To create this JSON:
{
"my_json": [
{
"number": 20,
"name": "androider",
},
{
"id": 3432,
"name": "other_name",
}
]
}
You should use this code:
JSONObject a = new JSONObject();
a.put("number", 20);
a.put("name", "androider");
JSONObject b = new JSONObject();
b.put("id", 3432);
b.put("name", "other_name");
JSONArray array = new JSONArray();
array.put(a);
array.put(b);
JSONObject root = new JSONObject();
root.put("my_json", array);
// convert the root object to a string with 4 spaces of indentation
String json = root.toString(4);
As told by Angel, Jackson and Gson are two cool libs.
Gson is very easy to use while Jackson has better performance.
Try here, Go through the answers mentioned below
How to convert String to JSONObject in Java
in short,
Using org.json library:
JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject("{\"phonetype\":\"N95\",\"cat\":\"WP\"}");
Here put your own string.
Edit:
Try here,
http://www.mkyong.com/java/json-simple-example-read-and-write-json/
Create a Json object,
JSONObject jsonobj = new JSONObject();
Put your data using...
josnobj.put()