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Get value of Json With Gson

i don't arrive to get the name of the containerStatuses.
I tried this (regarding a precedent post), the error is reported on the get("name") with "The method get(String) is undefined for the type JsonElement".
Thanks for help
JsonObject data = new Gson().fromJson(myjsoncontent, JsonObject.class);
JsonArray items = data .get("items").getAsJsonArray();
for(JsonElement element : items){
JsonObject object = element.getAsJsonObject();
String containerstatusesname = object.get("status").getAsJsonObject().get("containerStatuses").getAsJsonArray().get(0).get("name").getAsString();
}
// My Json Content
{
"kind": "Space",
"apiVersion": "v1",
"metadata": {
"selfLink": "something",
"resourceVersion": "something"
},
"items": [
{
"status": {
"containerStatuses": [
{
"name": "thisismyname"
}
]
}
}
]
}

Why are you using gson emulating JSON.parse? Is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
If you want to use gson it's better to create a class that matches your json data as:
public class ApiResponse {
private String kind;
private String apiVersion;
private Metadata metadata;
private List<Item> items;
public List<String> getAllNames() {
List<String> allNames = new ArrayList();
for (Item item: items) {
allNames.add(item.getStatus().get(0).getName());
}
return allNames;
}
public String getFirstName() {
if (items.length == 0 || items.get(0).getStatus().length == 0) {
return "";
}
return items.get(0).getStatus().get(0).getName();
}
class Metadata {
private String selfLink;
private String resourceVersion;
}
class Item {
private List<StatusContainer> status;
List<StatusContainer> getStatus() {
return status;
}
}
class StatusContainer {
private String name;
String getName() {
return name;
}
}
}
And then execute:
ApiResponse response = gson.fromJson(myjsoncontent, ApiResponse.class);
String firstName = response.getFirstName();
And this way the response object will contain all the data of the parsed json. Notice you'll need to add the getters to access this properties if are kept private.
No need to emulate the result of JSON.parse and have JsonObject, JsonArray...

You have to change
.get(0).get("name")
to
.get(0).getAsJsonObject().get("name")
JsonArray returns JsonElements when you iterate over it

Get the Array Element as Object cause its structured as Object
.getAsJsonArray().get(0).getAsJsonObject().get("name").getAsString();

Convert JSON object to Java object with different format using GSON

I have a response that returns a json object in following format:
{
"playerId": "001",
"name": "michel",
"age": 21,
"nation": "USA",
"ratings": [
{
"type": "speed",
"score": "0121"
},
{
"type": "accuracy",
"score": "85"
}
],
"teaminfo": {
"teamName": "HON",
"isValid": "true"
}
}
and I have a Java Class as :
public class MyRider {
public String playerId;
public String name;
public int age;
public String speed;
public String accuracy;
public String teamName;
public String isValid;
//getter, setter...
}
I want to map the JSON object into Java object using GSON.
I tried using JsonDeserializationContext deserialize, and it returned null for the nested values in JSON.

Without custom deserializer
If you cannot change the JSON to return exactly what you want, I suggest you create classes to match it:
MyRider:
public class MyRider {
private String playerId;
private String name;
private int age;
private String nation;
private List<Rating> ratings;
private TeamInfo teaminfo;
// getters, setters, toString override
}
Rating:
public class Rating {
private String type;
private String score;
// getters, setters, toString override
}
TeamInfo:
private static class TeamInfo {
private String teamName;
private String isValid;
// getters, setters, toString override
}
Then simply deserialize as normal:
MyRider rider = gson.fromJson(json, MyRider.class);
If you need exactly the fields you've specified in MyRider in your question, consider a transformer class to map the full class above to your needs.
With custom deserializer
It's also possible to do this with a custom deserializer, but slightly pointless as GSON provides the normal mapping for you which you can then adapt.
Here is an example with a deserializer:
public class MyRiderDeserializer implements JsonDeserializer<MyRider> {
#Override
public MyRider deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT,
JsonDeserializationContext context)
throws JsonParseException {
MyRider rider = new MyRider();
if(json.isJsonObject()) {
JsonObject riderObj = json.getAsJsonObject();
rider.setPlayerId(riderObj.get("playerId").getAsString());
rider.setName(riderObj.get("name").getAsString());
rider.setAge(riderObj.get("age").getAsInt());
JsonArray ratingsArray = riderObj.get("ratings").getAsJsonArray();
for(JsonElement ratingElem : ratingsArray) {
JsonObject ratingObj = ratingElem.getAsJsonObject();
String type = ratingObj.get("type").getAsString();
switch(type) {
case "speed":
rider.setSpeed(ratingObj.get("score").getAsString());
break;
case "accuracy":
rider.setAccuracy(ratingObj.get("score").getAsString());
break;
default:
break;
}
}
JsonObject teamInfo = riderObj.get("teaminfo").getAsJsonObject();
rider.setTeamName(teamInfo.get("teamName").getAsString());
rider.setIsValid(teamInfo.get("isValid").getAsString());
}
return rider;
}
}
Note this does not include any checks to validate whether the properties are actually there and is the simplest possible custom deserializer I could think of. To use it, you must register the type adapter at Gson creation time:
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder()
.registerTypeAdapter(MyRider.class, new MyRiderDeserializer())
.create();
MyRider myRider = gson.fromJson(reader, MyRider.class);

How to get the data from the JSON list of JSON list

I've got an JSON string from my API, looks like this:
[
{
"id": "abc",
"data": {
"Name": "Peter",
"Date": "2017/12/01"
}
},
{
"id": "def",
"data": {
"Name": "Tina",
"Date": "2017/12/20"
}
},
{
"id": "ghi",
"data": {
"Name": "Amy",
"Date": "2017/12/16"
}
}
]
Then, I use (java):
Gson gson = new Gson();
Type resultType = new TypeToken<List<Map<String, Object>>>() {
}.getType();
List<Map<String, Object>> result = gson.fromJson(info, resultType);
if I call result.get(0).toString());
then it returned:
{id=abc, data={Name=Peter, Date=2017/12/01}}
if I call result.get(0).get("id").toString();
then it returned
abc
Now I want to get the data of "data", when I call result.get(0).get("data").toString();
then it returned
{Name=Peter, Date=2017/12/01}
Finally I want to get the "Name" info, but when I tried to convert this string to Map, it cause some problem, the code is like this:
Type type = new TypeToken<Map<String, Object>>(){}.getType();
Map<String, Object> myMap = gson.fromJson(str, type);
This doesn't work. I found that maybe the string is not a general type of JSON, it is like "Name=Peter, Date=2017/12/01", but it needs "Name": "Peter", "Date": "2017/12/01" , right? Is that the problem? How can I get the data of Name? Can anyone help me?
Updated:
I found that if "Name" = "", then I couldn't get it as string type, I cannot use "data.get("Name");". But I still need it. Anyone can fix it? Thanks.

You can directly convert the response into the POJO/Model class. Check this and this

You don't need manual parsing, if you are using Gson. See how-
List<Response> responseList = new Gson().fromJson(yourJson, new TypeToken<List<Response>>() {
}.getType());
Data data = responseList.get(0).getData();
String id = responseList.get(0).getId();
String date = data.getDate();
String name = data.getName();
Isn't this magic? No manual parsing at all.
Response.java class
public class Response {
private Data data;
private String id;
public void setData(Data data) {
this.data = data;
}
public Data getData() {
return data;
}
public void setId(String id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getId() {
return id;
}
}
Data.java class
public class Data {
private String date;
private String name;
public void setDate(String date) {
this.date = date;
}
public String getDate() {
return date;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
}
How to generate Pojo classes? So here is several websites jsonschema2pojo. Also many Android Studio plugins available, I use RoboPOJOGenerator.

First of all, your JSON is malformed, it shouldn't have a comma after date.
and to answer your question, don't use map at all.
If you really want to do it without creating a model and additional classes, do it this way:
Gson gson = new Gson();
Type resultType = new TypeToken<List<JsonObject>>() {}.getType();
List<JsonObject> result = gson.fromJson(info, resultType);
System.out.println(result.get(0).get("data").toString());
JsonObject data = result.get(0).get("data").getAsJsonObject();
System.out.println(data.get("Name"));

GSON parsing multiple keys of the same type

I'm working on a personal project in Android and I want to use GSON to parse a JSON file containing the data I need.
I have a local JSON file with the following structure:
{
"Object1": {
"foo": "value1",
"bar": "value2",
"baz": "value3",
...
},
"Object2": {
"foo": "value4",
"bar": "value5",
"baz": "value6",
...
},
...
}
I have already made an Object class of the following structure:
Class Object {
String data;
...
}
How would I parse this JSON file with this structure?
EDIT: The JSON file I use is very large, it contains about 400+ of these objects of type Object. I would have to iterate over each object to create a new JSONObject, but I do not know how to do this.

In the solution below, we convert the JSON you've provided in your link as a JSONOject. Then we get the list of names contained in the JSON ("Abaddon", "Archeri", ...). Once we have the list we iterate through it. For each name we get the JSON object associated with it.
Then we use GSON to convert each object into a Demon object. The Demon class has been generated using http://www.jsonschema2pojo.org/ as suggested above.
As all the objects in the JSON have the same structure we need only one class to deserialize every single one of them.
Deserializer
public List<Demon> deserialize(String json) {
try {
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(json);
final JSONArray names = jsonObject.names();
final List<Demon> demons = new ArrayList<>();
final Gson gson = new Gson();
Demon demon;
for (int i = 0; i < names.length(); i++) {
demon = gson.fromJson(jsonObject.get(names.getString(i)).toString(), Demon.class);
demons.add(demon);
}
return demons;
} catch (JSONException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return null;
}
}
Demon class
public class Demon {
#SerializedName("ailments")
#Expose
public String ailments;
#SerializedName("align")
#Expose
public String align;
#SerializedName("code")
#Expose
public Integer code;
#SerializedName("inherits")
#Expose
public String inherits;
#SerializedName("lvl")
#Expose
public Integer lvl;
#SerializedName("pcoeff")
#Expose
public Integer pcoeff;
#SerializedName("race")
#Expose
public String race;
#SerializedName("resists")
#Expose
public String resists;
#SerializedName("skills")
#Expose
public List<String> skills = null;
#SerializedName("source")
#Expose
public List<String> source = null;
#SerializedName("stats")
#Expose
public List<Integer> stats = null;
public Demon(){
// Default constructor
}
}

How to create a JSON array with this specific structure?

I intend to create a JSON Array with the following structure. The metadata tag is going to constant in all the entries. I am stumped.
[{
"metadata": {
"Value": "String"
},
"name": "String",
"id": "String"
},
{
"metadata": {
"Value": "String"
},
"name": "String",
"id": "String"
}
]

public class yourJsonObject {
private Map<String, String> metadata;
private String name;
private string id;
public yourJsonObject() {
}
public Map<String, String> getMetadata(){
return metadata;
}
public void setMetadata(Map<String, String> metadata){
this.metadata = metadata;
}
public String getName(){
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public String getId(){
return id;
}
public void setId(String id){
this.id = id;
}
}
Then somewhere else you can just do this:
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(); // create once, reuse
yourJsonObject example = new yourJsonObject(); // have your POJO you want to save
mapper.writeValue(new File("result.json"), example);
To read you can just use:
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(); // create once, reuse
yourJsonObject value = mapper.readValue(new File("data.json"), yourJsonObject .class);
Both snippets are taken from my linked wiki article from jackson themselves.
Jackson should automatically be able to parse this POJO to an equivalent JSON if configured correctly.
Note: Jackson has to be globally registered and has to know about it. Please read the wiki of what you use to know about it... Jackson in 5 Minutes
Else you could just manually build the JSON like Neeraj said.

JSONArray array = new JSONArray(); // Create JSONArray Object
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(); // Your JSONObject which gets added into array
jsonObject.put("metadata",new MetaDataCustomClass("SomeRandomStringValue"));
jsonObject.put("name", "Neeraj");
jsonObject.put("id", "123");
array.add(jsonObject); // Here you push the jsonObject into Array.
Note: MetaDataCustomClass is just a custom Class having a Value instance variable of type String.
Class MetaDataCustomClass {
private String value;
public MetaDataCustomClass(String value){
this.value = value;
}
}