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parse a json file lost structure of data - JAVA

i have to create a json file that contain some object (a name, a string list and a date list). the problem is when i have to write and read date in LocalDate format.
if i write and then i print the jsonObject, the format of the date is ok. but when i do the parse and suddedly i print the object, the format of the date is wrong.
this is the code for write in the file:
public void aggiungi(){
JSONObject obj = new JSONObject();
obj.put("name", this.name);
JSONArray listMov = new JSONArray();
JSONArray listData = new JSONArray();
for(int i =0; i<this.movimenti.size(); i++){
listMov.add(movimenti.get(i));
listData.add(data.get(i));
}
obj.put("data", listData);
obj.put("mov", listMov);
File file=new File("file.json");
try {
file.createNewFile();
FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter(file);
fileWriter.write(obj.toJSONString());
fileWriter.flush();
fileWriter.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println(obj);
}
and the final println print:
{"data":[2015-03-02,2015-04-05,2015-06-10],"mov":
["F24","PagoBancomat","Bollettino"],"name":"Stefano"}
and this is the code for read:
JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();//per decodifica
Object obj;
try {
obj = parser.parse(new FileReader("file.json"));
JSONObject jsonObj = (JSONObject) obj;
String name= (String) jsonObj.get("name");
JSONArray list = (JSONArray) jsonObj.get("mov");
JSONArray listData = (JSONArray) jsonObj.get("data");
System.out.println(jsonObj);
Iterator<String> iteratorM = list.iterator();
Iterator<LocalDate> iteratorD = listData.iterator();
ArrayList<String> mov =new ArrayList<String>(list.size());
ArrayList<LocalDate> data =new ArrayList<LocalDate>(list.size());
while(iteratorM.hasNext()){
mov.add(iteratorM.next());
}
while(iteratorD.hasNext()){
data.add(iteratorD.next());
}
ContoCorrente cc = new ContoCorrente(data, mov, name);
Contatore task = new Contatore(cc);
this.executeTask(task);
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ParseException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
and print
{"data":[2015,-3,-2,2015,-4,-5,2015,-6,-10],"mov":
["F24","PagoBancomat","Bollettino"],"name":"Stefano"}
the last print separes the structure of a date, separing day, month and year.
what i do wrong in the code?
thanks you and sorry for my bad english

Instead of setting as a data object in JSON,first parse it to String using dateformatters then set it in JSON object as string.

Use DateTimeFormatter for converting LocalDate into String value, assuming data as object of ArrayList<LocalDate> ;
JSONArray listMov = new JSONArray();
JSONArray listData = new JSONArray();
DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd");
for(int i =0; i<this.movimenti.size(); i++){
listMov.add(movimenti.get(i));
listData.add(data.get(i).format(formatter));
}

getJSONObject not working in Java

I'm trying to parse json file in my java project using this below code,
JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
try {
Object obj = null;
try {
obj = parser.parse(new FileReader(new File("json/branch_list.json")));
} catch (org.json.simple.parser.ParseException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}
JSONObject jsonObject = (JSONObject) obj;
System.out.println("Branches are :");
JSONArray listOfBranches = (JSONArray) jsonObject.get("branch_list");
Iterator iterator = listOfBranches.iterator();
for (int i = 0; i < listOfBranches.size(); i++) {
JSONObject c = listOfBranches.getJSONObject(i);
System.out.println("Branch are :" + listOfBranches.get(i));
}
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
System.out.println(iterator.next());
}
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
From above code when i'm using this two below lines
JSONObject c = listOfBranches.getJSONObject(i);
String branchName = c.getString("branch_name");
Its shows the method getJSONObject(int) is undefined for the type JSONArray
And I'm getting the whole object when using this below code,
System.out.println("Branch are :"+listOfBranches.get(i));
It prints like this,
{"branch_name":"AMM"}
from this I want to get branch name using the key "branch_name". But I could not able to do this because of "the method getJSONObject(int) is undefined for the type JSONArray" exception
And I have added json-simple jar in my project. Could you please suggest me any idea to do this? Thanks in advance.

If i undestood you right then:
JSONObject item = (JSONObject)listOfBranches.get(0);
String branchName = (String)item.get("branch_name");

i think you should use org.json instead of simple-json. The method getJSONObject(i) is available in org.json. Refer to the below url for more detail.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2591098/how-to-parse-json

Java Writing multiple HashMaps to file

I am basically trying to write multiple (12, specifically) HashMap dictionaries to a local file and then retrieve them. So far I manage to do one however when I am trying to do more than one, i basically can not make it work. So any help to do this is appreciated. Here's my code so far:
private HashMap<String, List<String>> loadDict() {
int month = Functions.getMonth();
//load back in
FileInputStream fis;
try {
fis = new FileInputStream(statsFile);
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis);
for (int i = 0; i < 13; i++) {
//itemsDict = (HashMap) ois.readObject();
Object whatisThis = (Object) ois.readObject();
dictionaries.add(whatisThis);
}
ois.close();
fis.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}
itemsDict = (HashMap) dictionaries.get(month);
System.out.println(itemsDict.get("cake"));
return itemsDict;
}
private void setupDictionaries() {
HashMap<String, List<String>> dictionary = new HashMap<String,List<String>>();
FileOutputStream fos;
try {
fos = new FileOutputStream(statsFile);
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
for (int i = 0; i < 13; i++) {
oos.writeObject(dictionary);
}
oos.close();
fos.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
private void storeThis(String product, String price, String quantity, String date, List<List<String>> myContent) {//after set, replace dictionary in dictionaries array
dictionaries.set(Functions.getMonth(), itemsDict);
//save the dictionary to the overall statistics file
FileOutputStream fos;
try {
fos = new FileOutputStream(statsFile);
ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(fos);
for (int i = 0; i < 13; i++) {
oos.writeObject(dictionaries.get(i));
}
//oos.writeObject(itemsDict);
oos.close();
fos.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
A bit of clarification: setupDictionaries is only called on the first run (to setup the file), otherwise loadDict() is called on runtime, to load all the dictionaries into an arraylist. From the arraylist, the correct object (hashmap) should be chosen and then cased to itemsDict as hashmap.
storeThis() is called when a button is pressed, however I cut down the code to only relevant bits.
So I am trying to implement the JSON you have suggested, so far I've got:
private void setupDictionaries() {
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
ArrayNode arrayNode = mapper.createArrayNode();
JsonNode rootNode = mapper.createObjectNode();
ArrayList<String> myThing = new ArrayList<String>();
myThing.add("hi");
myThing.add(".");
itemsDict.put("cake", myThing);
JsonNode childNode1 = mapper.valueToTree(itemsDict);
((ObjectNode) rootNode).set("Jan", childNode1);
JsonNode childNode2 = mapper.createObjectNode();
((ObjectNode) rootNode).set("obj2", childNode2);
JsonNode childNode3 = mapper.createObjectNode();
((ObjectNode) rootNode).set("obj3", childNode3);
String jsonString;
try {
jsonString = mapper.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(rootNode);
System.out.println(jsonString);
ObjectWriter writer = mapper.writer(new DefaultPrettyPrinter());
writer.writeValue(new File(statsFile), jsonString);
} catch (JsonProcessingException e2) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e2.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Question, how would I be able to load this back? (only everything underneath Jan for example, to a hashmap)
private HashMap<String, List<String>> loadDict() {
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
try {
HashMap<String, ArrayList<String>> map = mapper.readValue(new File(statsFile), new TypeReference<HashMap<String, ArrayList<String>>>() {});
System.out.println(map.get("Jan"));
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
With this code I would be able to load it, however I get this exception (because I have multiple hashmaps within the Json):
JsonMappingException: Can not construct instance of java.util.HashMap: no String-argument constructor/factory method to deserialize from String value
(I don't know how to put exceptions here)
My JSON:
"{\r\n \"Jan\" : {\r\n \"cake\" : [ \"hi\", \".\" ]\r\n },\r\n \"obj2\" : { },\r\n \"obj3\" : { }\r\n}"
So how would I be able to only load a specific month into a hashmap?

I would definitely use Json format, consider that this format (which is plain text) give you the freedom to edit the file with an editor.
I'll suggest to use Jackson library.
You have just to create an ObjectMapper and use it to serialise and deserialise the json. Reading the documentation I see you can also read and write json files.
ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
For example this line would convert a Json String into a Map;
Map<String, Object> map = objectMapper.readValue(json, new TypeReference<Map<String, Object>>() {});
And you can convert a map into a Json even easier:
objectMapper.writeValueAsString(json)
The rest of your problem remain read and write the files.

When you've got multiple independently growing lists or equivalent and are trying to handle storing within a single file, the question is how would you want to handle overlap.
What would also matter is how frequently you write versus how frequently the data is read. If its mostly reads and long pauses are fine, then go for using json format (every time an edit is made then you have to re-write the whole json and the reads will have to wait until the operation is complete).
However if read and write would be approximately equal in measure then I think you'll need to consider splitting up the data into sequential sections - similar to what a database might do it.
===============================================================================
For example :
meta-data + 1*1024 bytes of 01st map
meta-data + 1*1024 bytes of 02nd map
meta-data + 1*1024 bytes of 03rd map
..
meta-data + 1*1024 bytes of 12th map
meta-data + 2*1024 bytes of 01st map
meta-data + 2*1024 bytes of 02nd map
..
meta-data + 2*1024 bytes of 12th map
meta-data + 3*1024 bytes of 01st map
...
and so on..
The meta-data will tell you whether to continue to the next section for any given map's data.
===============================================================================
You would also have to consider things like whether you are using hard-disk (sequential access) or SSD (random-access) and then decide which approach you want to go with.

How do I print the next element in a linked list to a CSV file?

I'm making an address book and my program is supposed to save each element in a list to a CSV file. I've gotten everything to work asside from the fact that it will only save 1 line to the file.
public static void save(){
PrintWriter writer = null;
try {
writer = new PrintWriter("C:\\Users\\Remixt\\workspace\\2\\AddressBook.csv", "UTF-8");
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
System.exit(0);
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
System.exit(0);
}
{
writer.println(AddressBook.get(getListSize()-1)+"\n");
writer.close();//saves file
}
Edit: It will only save the last element to the file. It only shows 1 thing in the file no matter how many times i add something else to the list.

the problem is here
writer.println(AddressBook.get(getListSize()-1)+"\n");
you just write the last element of AddressBook to the csv file, use for loop
the following is a sample
for (int i = 0; i < AddressBook.size(); i++) {
writer.println(AddressBook.get(i)+"\n");
}
at last, you should write file by append mode
filename=new FileWriter("printWriter.txt",true);
writer=new java.io.PrintWriter(filename);

Java: Create a KML File and insert elements in existing file

I`m developing an app that reads the GPS-Exif Information of Photos and writes the Tags (Lat/Lon,...) in an KML or CSV File.
Creating the Files if they dont exist, especially the csv, is not the problem, but in this case i want to add a new KML- placemark to an existing KML-file.
so far i have created a method that checks if the file already exists - if not (if-statement) it creates a new one.
and if the file exists it should add the information (else).
public void createKMLFile(){
String kmlstart = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n" +
"<kml xmlns=\"http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2\">\n";
String kmlelement ="\t<Placemark>\n" +
"\t<name>Simple placemark</name>\n" +
"\t<description>"+name+"</description>\n" +
"\t<Point>\n" +
"\t\t<coordinates>"+latlon[1]+","+latlon[0]+","+z+ "</coordinates>\n" +
"\t</Point>\n" +
"\t</Placemark>\n";
String kmlend = "</kml>";
ArrayList<String> content = new ArrayList<String>();
//content.add(0,kmlstart);
//content.add(1,kmlelement);
//content.add(2,kmlend);
String kmltest;
//Zum Einsetzen eines Substrings (weitere Placemark)
//String test = "</kml>";
//int index = kml.lastIndexOf(test);
File test = new File(datapath+"/"+name+".kml");
Writer fwriter;
if(test.exists() == false){
try {
content.add(0,kmlstart);
content.add(1,kmlelement);
content.add(2,kmlend);
kmltest = content.get(0) + content.get(1) + content.get(2);
fwriter = new FileWriter(datapath+"/"+name+".kml");
fwriter.write(kmltest);
//fwriter.append("HalloHallo", index, kml.length());
fwriter.flush();
fwriter.close();
}catch (IOException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}
}
else{
kmltest = content.get(0) + content.get(1) + content.get(2);
StringTokenizer tokenize = new StringTokenizer(kmltest, ">");
ArrayList<String> append = new ArrayList<String>();
while(tokenize.hasMoreTokens()){
append.add(tokenize.nextToken());
append.add(1, kmlelement);
String rewrite = append.toString();
try {
fwriter = new FileWriter(datapath+"/"+name+".kml");
fwriter.write(rewrite);
fwriter.flush();
fwriter.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
I dont get any Logs in the LogCat but the App stops working if i try to update the existing file... any suggestions?
thanks in advance
EDIT: Ok i see that content.add(0, kml...) has to be outside the try block... but thats not the main problem it seems

When modifying XML files it is best accomplished using a library of some sort. I maintain the XML-manipulation library called JDOM which is designed to make this sort of manipulation as easy as it can. Other options are using the DOM library (which is already built in to the Java runtime which makes it much easier to integrate in to your program), and SAX (which, in this case, I would not recommend, even though it may be faster). Other external libraries (like JDOM) exist which would also help, like XOM, dom4j, etc. This stackoverflow answer seems relevant: Best XML parser for Java
In JDOM, your code would look something like:
Document doc = null;
Namespace kmlns = new Namespace("http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2");
Element position = new Element("Position", kmlns);
position.addContent(new Element("name", kmlns).setText(positionName));
position.addContent(new Element("desc", kmlns).setText(description));
position.addContent(..... all the XML content needed for the Position ....);
// create the XML Document in memory if the file does not exist
// otherwise read the file from the disk
if(!test.exists()){
doc = new Document();
Element root = new Element("kml", kmlns);
} else {
SAXBuilder sb = new SAXBuilder();
doc = sb.build(test);
}
Element root = doc.getRootElement();
// modify the XML as you need
// add Position Element
root.addContent(position);
try {
fwriter = new FileWriter(datapath+"/"+name+".kml");
XMLOutputter xout = new XMLOutputter(Format.getPrettyFormat());
xout.output(doc, writer);
fwriter.flush();
fwriter.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
EDIT: you ask what's wrong with your actual code.... There are a few things that are contributing to your problems, but you don't show an actual error, or other indication of how the program 'stops working'.
there are bugs in your code which should throw serious exceptions: kmltest = content.get(0) + content.get(1) + content.get(2); should throw IndexOutOfBoundsException because the content ArrayList is empty (the lines adding values to the ArrayList are commented out....) - but let's assume that they are not....
You never read the file you are changing, so how can you be changing it?
The StringTokenizer delimeter is ">", which is never a good way to parse XML.
You loop through the String tokenizer on evert '>' delimeter, but you never add the token back in to the output (i.e. your output is milling a lot of '>' characters).
You add the kmlelement Position content in the place of every '>' caracter in the document, not just the one that is important.
The FileWriter logic should be ** outside** the loop.... you do not want to modify the file for every token you modify.

It´s working now, thanks for your input rolfl!
In my programm i have implemented the method with the JDOM library which is much more comfortable, anyhow here is the working code of my first try if someone is interested.
The output is not in a pretty format but the kml-file is working..
public void createKMLFile(){
String kmlstart = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n" +
"<kml xmlns=\"http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2\">\n";
String kmlelement ="\t<Placemark>\n" +
"\t<name>Simple placemark</name>\n" +
"\t<description>"+name+"</description>\n" +
"\t<Point>\n" +
"\t\t<coordinates>"+latlon[1]+","+latlon[0]+","+z+ "</coordinates>\n" +
"\t</Point>\n" +
"\t</Placemark>\n";
String kmlend = "</kml>";
ArrayList<String> content = new ArrayList<String>();
content.add(0,kmlstart);
content.add(1,kmlelement);
content.add(2,kmlend);
String kmltest = content.get(0) + content.get(1) + content.get(2);
File testexists = new File(datapath+"/"+name+".kml");
Writer fwriter;
if(!testexists.exists()){
try {
fwriter = new FileWriter(datapath+"/"+name+".kml");
fwriter.write(kmltest);
fwriter.flush();
fwriter.close();
}catch (IOException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}
}
else{
//schleifenvariable
String filecontent ="";
ArrayList<String> newoutput = new ArrayList<String>();;
try {
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(testexists));
while((filecontent = in.readLine()) !=null)
newoutput.add(filecontent);
} catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}
newoutput.add(2,kmlelement);
String rewrite ="";
for(String s : newoutput){
rewrite += s;
}
try {
fwriter = new FileWriter(datapath+"/"+name+".kml");
fwriter.write(rewrite);
fwriter.flush();
fwriter.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}