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Deserialize and Filter Nested String in Gson Java

I want to create an Application that can auto-create Memes. Every Meme from the API has different amounts of boxes (fields where the text can sit). Now I want to create an HTTP Request to get the fields for a specific meme ID.
The HTTP Request is working fine but I don't know how to deserialize and filter the received string.
Here is the JSON I want to Deserialize with GSON:
https://api.imgflip.com/get_memes

The solution is:
You need to get a JsonObject then in a JsonElement deserialize the "top-level-elements" and get it as a JsonArray. Then you can Loop through the array and get what you need.
JsonObject jsonObject = new Gson().fromJson(content.toString(), JsonObject.class);
JsonElement entry = jsonObject.getAsJsonObject("data").getAsJsonArray("memes");
JsonArray entryArray = entry.getAsJsonArray();
for (JsonElement element : entryArray) {
JsonObject jsonObjectLoop = element.getAsJsonObject();
if(jsonObjectLoop.get("id").getAsString().equals("14371066")) {
System.out.println(jsonObjectLoop.get("box_count").getAsString());
}
}

Why JsonParser gives double quotes in the return value, using com.google.gson API

I am currently using JsonObject and JsonParser of com.google.gson api (using gson-2.8.5 version) to parse and read the value form input JSON.
I have JSON filed like , smaple "resultCode":"SUCCESS", when I try to read the same value from json it gives the result as ""SUCCESS"" .
Every value I am reading, getting with double "" not sure why ? You can refer below screen of my debugging screen.
I am new to Json and parser, is that default behavior ?
I am expecting "SUCCESS", "S", "00000000" not like ""SUCCESS"" or ""S""
or ""00000000""
same I have highlighted in the below image .
Please share any idea how we can get apbsolute vlaue of string without """" double quote string it causing my string comparison fail.
String response_result = "{\"response\": {\"head\": {\"function\": \"acquiring.order.create\",\"version\": \"2.0\",\"clientId\": \"201810300000\",\"reqMsgId\": \"56805892035\",\"respTime\": \"2019-09-13T13:18:08+08:00\"},\"body\": {\"resultInfo\": {\"resultCode\": \"SUCCESS\",\"resultCodeId\": \"00000000\",\"resultStatus\": S,\"resultMsg\": \"SUCCESS\"},\"acquirementId\": \"2018080834569894848930\",\"merchantTransId\": \"5683668701112717398\",\"checkoutUrl\": \"http://localhost:8081/crm/operator/operator-search-init.action\"}},\"signature\":\"d+TUYLvt1a491R1e6aO8i9VwXWzVhfNgnhD0Du74f4RgBQ==\"}";
HttpInvoker.Result result = i.new Result(200, response_result);
JsonObject jo = new JsonParser().parse(response_result).getAsJsonObject();
String resultCode = jo.get("response").getAsJsonObject().get("body").getAsJsonObject().get("resultInfo").getAsJsonObject().get("resultCode").toString();
String resultCodeId = jo.get("response").getAsJsonObject().get("body").getAsJsonObject().get("resultInfo").getAsJsonObject().get("resultCodeId").toString();
String resultStatus = jo.get("response").getAsJsonObject().get("body").getAsJsonObject().get("resultInfo").getAsJsonObject().get("resultStatus").toString();
String checkoutUrl = jo.get("response").getAsJsonObject().get("body").getAsJsonObject().get("checkoutUrl").toString();
if ( RESULT_CODE_GCASH_SUCCESS.equals(resultCode)
&& RESULT_STATUS_SUCCESS.equals(resultStatus)
&& StringUtils.isNotEmpty(checkoutUrl)) {
log.error("Testing ".concat(resultCode).concat(resultStatus).concat(checkoutUrl));
}
log.error("Testing ".concat(resultCode).concat(resultStatus).concat(checkoutUrl));
}
This is my input JSON
{
"response":{
"head":{
"function":"acquiring.order.create",
"version":"2.0",
"clientId":"201810300000",
"reqMsgId":"56805892035",
"respTime":"2019-09-13T13:18:08+08:00"
},
"body":{
"resultInfo":{
"resultCode":"SUCCESS",
"resultCodeId":"00000000",
"resultStatus":"S",
"resultMsg":"SUCCESS"
},
"acquirementId":"2018080834569894848930",
"merchantTransId":"5683668701112717398",
"checkoutUrl":"http://localhost:8081/crm/operator/operator-search-init.action"
}
},
"signature":"d+TUYLvtI38YL2hresd98Ixu1BXccvvh1IQMiHuMXUEeW/N5exUsW491R1e6aO8i9VwXWzVhfNgnhD0Du74f4RgBQ=="
}

JsonParser parses your json into JsonElement structure. The behaviour that you see is a normal since you are using toString method of JsonElement. To achieve your goal just use JsonElement::getAsString method :
String resultCode = jo.get("response").getAsJsonObject().get("body").getAsJsonObject().get("resultInfo").getAsJsonObject().get("resultCode").getAsString();
which gives SUCCESS instead of "SUCCESS"
Note that JsonElement is an abstract class and classes, that extend this class, will override those helper getAs... methods. In your case JsonPrimitive::getAsString will be invoked.
Also you could create a POJO class for your json and use Gson::fromJson to parse json into object of your POJO class.

With the input from #Michalk:
I understand that easy way to read JSON data is using Gson::fromJson and creating POJO class for out json.
I have generated POJO Classes supplying my sample input JSON using this link
and Now I have POJO Classes called : CreateOrderJSONResponse
Gson::fromJson
Sample :
Gson gson = new Gson();
CreateOrderJSONResponse responseJson = gson.fromJson(inputJSON, CreateOrderJSONResponse.class);
Accessubg data :
String resultCodeText = responseJson.getResponse().getBody().getResultInfo().getResultCode();
String resultCodeId = responseJson.getResponse().getBody().getResultInfo().getResultCodeId();
String resultStatus = responseJson.getResponse().getBody().getResultInfo().getResultStatus();
String checkoutUrl = responseJson.getResponse().getBody().getCheckoutUrl();
Above Gson::fromJson example works smooth and it looks neat compare to direct accessing the filed with below sample code :
JsonObject jo = parser.parse(inputJSON).getAsJsonObject();
String resultCodeText = jo.get("response").getAsJsonObject().get("body").getAsJsonObject().get("resultInfo").getAsJsonObject().getAsJsonPrimitive("resultCode").getAsString();
String resultCodeId = jo.get("response").getAsJsonObject().get("body").getAsJsonObject().get("resultInfo").getAsJsonObject().getAsJsonPrimitive("resultCodeId").getAsString();
String resultStatus = jo.get("response").getAsJsonObject().get("body").getAsJsonObject().get("resultInfo").getAsJsonObject().getAsJsonPrimitive("resultStatus").getAsString();
String checkoutUrl = jo.get("response").getAsJsonObject().get("body").getAsJsonObject().getAsJsonPrimitive("checkoutUrl").getAsString();
Note :
I have found this link of JSON or JAVA, SCALA, POJO generator tools as GitHub access you can access here

Trouble with getting strings into JSON

My servlet recieves/loads multiple parameters from/for an article (price, id, count, name).
While they are saved in the session for other purposes I want to display them in a Shopping cart.
So my idea was to get all values into a json like this
{"id":1, "prductName":"article1"}
but my json always ends up empty.
I had two approaches:
String prname = request.getParameter("name");
String anz = String.valueOf(session.getAttribute("Anzahl"));
String prid = request.getParameter("id");
String price = request.getParameter("price");
These are my parameters:
First try:
class ToJson{
String prname1 = String.valueOf(session.getAttribute("prname"));
String anz1 = String.valueOf(session.getAttribute("Anzahl"));
String prid1 = String.valueOf(session.getAttribute("id"));
String price1 = String.valueOf(session.getAttribute("price"));
}
ToJson obj = new ToJson();
Jsonb jsonb = JsonbBuilder.create();
String jsn1 = jsonb.toJson(obj);
Ends up with: {}
Second try:
ArrayList<String> ar = new ArrayList<String>();
ar.add(prname);
ar.add(price);
ar.add(prid);
ar.add(anz);
ToJson obj = new ToJson();
Jsonb jsonb = JsonbBuilder.create();
String jsn = jsonb.toJson(ar);
Ends up with: ["P1neu","25","1","145"]
It isn't in a format I wanted and I also don't know how to access the seperate values here, I tried jsn[1] but it didnt work.
Could you help me, please?

To your first question, why JSON object is printing empty:
You are missing getters & setters in the ToJSON class for JSON Builder/Parser to access the properties/fields, and that's why its printing as empty object.
To your second question, how do I access JSON properties:
JSON representation is a natively a string representation, and you can't read part of string as jsn[1].
For reading JSON object properties, you convert it into POJO using available any of preferred open source parser libraries like Jacksons, Gson etc. And then access POJO properties using standard java getter/setters.

String deserialization and conversion to JSON in Java

After deserializing my string and converting it to JSON using the code below:
JSONObject returnValue = new JSONObject();
String toJson = null;
try
{
Object otherObjectValue = SerializationUtils
.deserialize(myBytesArray);
Gson gson = new Gson();
toJson = gson.toJson(otherObjectValue);
returnValue.put(key, toJson);
}
some part of the JSON still has something like:
{ "key":"ATTRIBUTE_LIST", "value":"{\"attributeContract\":[{\"scope\":\"sso\",\"name\":\"SAML_SUBJECT\",\"description\":\"Click to Edit\",\"required\":true}]}"}
which means everything in:
"{\"attributeContract\":[{\"scope\":\"sso\",\"name\":\"SAML_SUBJECT\",\"description\":\"Click to Edit\",\"required\":true}]}"
is one string instead being another object with fields. Is there something I can do to sanitize by JSONObject to make it properly JSON?

The key part is OK, means the whole String is JSON formatted.
For the value part, /shows that the value of value is JSON formatted already.
So you may "deserialize" the value of value again to retrieve an Object result. Or you may ask the creator of origin JSON, to serialize origin Object one time into JSON format.

Parsing JSON in Java Using org.json

I have a large file with many JSON objects similiar to the following. I need to parse everything to get the "bought_together" items as an array using the org.json library. I'm having trouble accessing anything nested in "related".
What is the required code to retrieve "bought_together" as a list?
{
"asin": "11158732",
"title": "Girls Ballet Tutu Zebra Hot Pink",
"price": 3.17,
"imUrl": "http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fAmVkTbyL._SY300_.jpg",
"related":
{
"also_bought": ["L00JHONN1S", "B002BZX8Z6"],
"also_viewed": ["F002BZX8Z6", "B00JHONN1S", "B008F0SU0Y", "B00D23MC6W", "B00AFDOPDA"],
"bought_together": ["D202BZX8Z6"]
},
"salesRank": {"Toys & Games": 211836},
"brand": "Coxlures",
"categories": [["Sports & Outdoors", "Other Sports", "Dance"]]
}
Here is my attempt (Please note, this is within a MapReduce program so some lines may seem out of context.):
JSONObject object = new JSONObject(sampleText); //sampleText is json that has been split by line
JSONArray boughtTogether = new JSONArray(object.getJSONArray("bought_together"));

using the following code, I hope it's help you.
//this will be your json object that contains and convert your string to jsonobject
//if you have json object already skip this.
JSONObject yourJSON = new JSONObject(targetString);
//getting the "related" jsonObject
JSONObject related = yourJSON.getJSONObject("related");
//getting the "bought_together" as an jsonArray and do what you want with it.
//you can act with jsonarray like an array
JSONArray bought_together = related.getJSONArray("bought_together");
//now if you run blow code
System.out.print(bought_together.getString(0));
//output is : D202BZX8Z6
-------update according to update the question------
you should change your code like this:
JSONObject object = new JSONObject(sampleText); //sampleText is json that has been split by line
JSONObject related = object.getJSONObject("related");
JSONArray boughtTogether = related.getJSONArray("bought_together");
-------update-------
i think you need to this point (it's not technicality all of they difference)
every thing are in {} , they will be JSONObject and the relation
is key and value like :
{"name":"ali"}
this is a jsonobject and the value of key "name" is ali and we call it
like:
myJsonObject.getString("name");
every thing are in [] ,they will be JSONArray and the relation is
index and value like :
["ali"]
this is a JsonArray the value of index 0 is ali and we call it
like:
myJsonArray.getString(0);
so in your case:
your total object is a JSONObject
the value of "related" key is still a JSONObject
the value of "bought_together" key (which is inside the value of {jsonobject} "related" key) is a JSONArray