parse Json to Map<String,String> - java

I have Json response like :
[
{
"first_name": "fname1",
"last_name": "lname1"
},
{
"first_name": "fname2",
"last_name": "lname2",
"city_name": "paris"
},
{
"first_name": "fname2",
"last_name": "lname2",
"city_name": "paris",
"Address": "1st Ave"
}
.
.
.
]
and my fields in JsonObject is dynamic so i can't use a class with predefined fields , so i've decided to use Map to parse the Json response as below :
Collection<List<Map<String,String>>> list_Objects = null;
Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(is);
Gson gson = new Gson();
Type collectionType = new TypeToken<Collection<List<Map<String,String>>>>(){}.getType();
list_objects = gson.fromJson(reader, collectionType);
but it throws me this error :
com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_ARRAY but was STRING at line 1 column 1
im not expert in Json parsing so please tell me where is my mistake or if there is another way to implement such behavior i would be very appreciated.

I think the problem is with your Collection wrapper on the List one.
You just need to define the list_Objects as List<Map<String, String>>.
I just tried the following with Jackson's ObjectMapper (which should work the same as GSON) and it worked ok:
List<Map<String, String>> list_objects = objectMapper.readValue(jsonString, new TypeReference<List<Map<String, String>>>(){});
The result is a List of LinkedHashMap objects.
For your GSON example, you just need to remove the Collection<>, or the List<> if you prefer.

If I'm reading this correctly, you're defining your list twice.
Collection<List<Map<String, String>>> would map to a structure like
[ [ {"bla": "bla"}, {"bla": "bla"} ], [ {"foo": "bar"}, ... ], ... ]
(because List is a kind of Collection). So, try using List<Map<String, String>> and see if that works...

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Java Spring custom JSON response

I have a data that looks like so:
{
"name":{
"first": "<firstName>",
"last": "<lastName>"
},
"info": "<info>",
"place":{
"location": "<location>",
},
"test": "<test>"
}
However, I want to customize the Response json and group the data by the location.
In other words I would like to have a response like this:
"location":[{
"name": <location>,
user: [{
"name": <firstName> + <lastName>,
"info": <info>,
"test": <test>
}]
}]
I have tried to the it into a map like so:
List<Data> data= newArrayList(repository.findAll(Sort.by(Sort.Direction.ASC, "location")));
Map<String, Object> result= new HashMap<>();
for (Data d : data) {
result.put("name", d.getLocation());
result.put("user", d.getFirstName());
...
and so on, but this does not work. What is the best approach to achieve my desired result?
As of now you have a single result map, which you are then overwriting in the loop, so it will contain data for a location only, the last one. What you probably wanted to do is creating a list of those maps, which requires creating a new map inside the loop, and collecting them in a list:
List<Map<String, Object>> result=new ArrayList<>();
for(Data d : data) {
Map<String, Object> item = new HashMap<>();
item.put("name", d.getLocation());
item.put("user", d.getFirstName());
...
result.add(item);
}

How to get the JSON array values without have JSON object values in android? Is it Possible?

How to convert following type Json array in "tags_name": ["Activity Based"] in android and store data using getter setter methods.How to create POJO class, and how to handle when array is empty.I am struck with this concept.I tried this following way. Please guide me to resolve this issue.
API
"postlist": [
{
"posts": {
"pm_post_id": "4647",
},
"tags_name": [
"Activity Based"
],
"images_count": 0,
"images": [],
"post_user": [
{
"first_name": "Michelle",
"last_name": "Smith",
"profile_pic": "profess_sw_engg.jpg"
}
],
"is_encourage_user": true,
"encourage_feed_id": "992"
},
{
"posts": {
"pm_post_id": "4647",
},
"tags_name": [],
"images_count": 2,
"images": [
{
"gallery_id": "5549",
"name": "IMG_20161012_1832491.jpg",
},
{
"gallery_id": "5550",
"name": "IMG_20161012_1832441.jpg",
}
],
"post_user": [
{
"first_name": "Michelle",
"last_name": "Smith",
"profile_pic": "profess_sw_engg.jpg"
}
],
"is_encourage_user": true,
"encourage_feed_id": "993"
}
]
In Java i've use Following code.
try {
JSONArray tagNameArr = tempPostObject.getJSONArray("tags_name");
for(int iloop=0;i<tagNameArr.length();iloop++)
{
String street = tagNameArr.getString(iloop);
Log.i("..........",""+street);
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
try this to get value of tags_name JSONArray.
ArrayList<String> temp = new ArrayList<String>();
JSONArray tagName= jsonResponse.getJSONArray("tags_name");
for(int j=0;j<tagName.length();j++){
temp.add(tagName.getString(j));
}
Use jsonschema2pojo.org service and Gson converter (lib from Google). select Gson converter on the site.
You can use gson
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().serializeNulls().create();
RestaurantLoginResponseClass restaurantLoginResponse = gson.fromJson(loginResponseJsonString, RestaurantLoginResponseClass.class);
Add dependencies in app.gradle
compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.6.2'
#MohanRaj , why you would to parse it ! , it is not clear , if you would to get the values and retain it in java object or save it in file system , you can use :
Gs
Gson gson = new Gson();
Staff obj = gson.fromJson(jsonInString, Staff.class);
if you have a list of object inside your json
you can create a list in your staff class something like :
#SerializedName("hits")
private List<Car> cars = new ArrayList<Car>();
GSON can understood it and parse the incoming list to those object .
you can get POJO from familiar JSON to java POJO tools :
http://www.jsonschema2pojo.org/
and you can check for more info https://sites.google.com/site/gson/gson-user-guide
http://www.java2blog.com/2013/11/gson-example-read-and-write-json.html

How to parse entrie json file into map in Java with Gson?

I have different jsons and don't want to create classes for each.
Is there a way to parse entire json file into Map?
For example:
{
"response": [
{
"id": 1,
"first_name": "Pavel",
"last_name": "Durov",
"screen_name": "durov",
"photo_200_orig": "https://pp.vk.me/c625129/v625129631/34d5e/BkAwjDyPg.jpg"
}
]}
And do like this:
Map map = Gson.fromJson(jsonString, Someclass.class);
long id = map.get("response").get(0).get("id");
Is there a way?

How to parse this JSON with GSON?

I'am struggling with a problem to parse a JSON with GSON which contains lists as values. This should be pretty simple, but I can't figure out how to solve it. The JSON is:
{
"key1": [
"foo1",
"foo2",
"foo3"
],
"key2": [
"foo4",
"foo5",
"foo6"
],
"key3": [
"foo7",
"foo8",
"foo9"
]
}
I think the best way is to put it into a Map<String, List<String>>, but I can't create a Type for it. Like:
Type jsonArrayType = new TypeToken<Map<String, List<String>>>(){}.getType();
// Doesn't work, causes exception: "com.google.gson.internal.LinkedTreeMap cannot be cast to java.util.List"
Thanks for any help!
You will get a java.lang.reflect.Type from the getType() method. Use that to parse your json. Here is a small working example (Java 7)
String json = "{\"key1\": [\"foo1\",\"foo2\",\"foo3\"],\"key2\": [\"foo4\",\"foo5\",\"foo6\"],\"key3\": [\"foo7\",\"foo8\",\"foo9\"]}";
java.lang.reflect.Type type = new TypeToken<Map<String, List<String>>>(){}.getType();
Map<String, List<String>> map = new Gson().fromJson(json, type);
System.out.println(map);
This snippet prints the below value
{key1=[foo1, foo2, foo3], key2=[foo4, foo5, foo6], key3=[foo7, foo8, foo9]}

Parsing generic tag in JSON from GSON

I have a JSON which contains generic values. I tried it by using Maps but couldn't get the results. My problem is the generic tags starts from second level. Here is the JSON I am trying to parse through gson.
{
"success": true,
"status": 200,
"events": {
"Sep 2013": [
{
"artist_id": 1,
"created_at": "2013-05-18T15:21:00Z",
"duration": 2,
"end_time": "2013-09-19T22:00:00Z",
"event_desc": "",
"event_facebook_link": "",
"event_link": "https://www.smtickets.com/marketing/view/1316",
"feature_small": false,
"featured_status": false,
"id": 90,
In this JSON tag after "events" is generic i.e., "Sep 2013".
What I am trying right now is:
public Event event ;
public class Event {
public ArrayList<Map<String, String>> dates;
}
And I'm accessing it:
obj = gson.fromJson(reader, AllShowsActivityData.class);
Can anyone tell me that how can I make a class of dates. So Gson can serialize it. Or is there any other way to iterate first level tag and then I can declare it something like this
Type fooType = new TypeToken<Foo<Bar>>() {}.getType();
gson.toJson(foo, fooType);
You can indeed use a Map, but you're not using it correctly. Note that what you have is a field "events", which is an object that contains a number of pairs string and array of objects:
{ "events": { "Sep 2013": [ {}, {}, ... ], ... } }
To parse your JSON you'd need a class structure like this (in pseudo-code):
class AllShowsActivityData
Map<String, List<Event>> events
class Event
int artist_id
String created_at //parsing as String to simplify...
int duration
...
And then your code to parse:
AllShowsActivityData obj = gson.fromJson(reader, AllShowsActivityData.class);
And finally, if what you want is to access the dates, you'll have all of them in:
Set<String> dates = obj.getEvents().keySet(); //"Sep 2013", ...
Note: in fact, if you only want those dates, you don't even need the class Event and you could use just Map<String, List<Object>> events...

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