Java Append object to JSON

Question

I would like to append JSON object to existing JSON array to get data structure like this.

\"results\":[
      {
         \"lat\":\"value\",
         \"lon\"         


        

Answer 1

There isnt any problem with your code. It does append

String jsonDataString = "{\"results\":[{\"lat\":\"value\",\"lon\":\"value\" }, { \"lat\":\"value\", \"lon\":\"value\"}]}";
JSONObject mainObject = new JSONObject(jsonDataString);
JSONObject valuesObject = new JSONObject();
JSONArray list = new JSONArray();
valuesObject.put("lat", "newValue");
valuesObject.put("lon", "newValue");
valuesObject.put("city", "newValue");
valuesObject.put("street", "newValue");
valuesObject.put("date", "newValue");
valuesObject.put("time", "newValue");
list.put(valuesObject);
mainObject.accumulate("values", list);
System.out.println(mainObject);

This prints {"values":[[{"date":"newValue","city":"newValue","street":"newValue","lon":"newValue","time":"newValue","lat":"newValue"}]],"results":[{"lon":"value","lat":"value"},{"lon":"value","lat":"value"}]}. Isnt this what you are expecting?

With gson you can do like

import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.JsonObject;


public class AddJson {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String json = "{\"results\":[{\"lat\":\"value\",\"lon\":\"value\" }, { \"lat\":\"value\", \"lon\":\"value\"}]}";
        Gson gson = new Gson();
        JsonObject inputObj  = gson.fromJson(json, JsonObject.class);
        JsonObject newObject = new JsonObject() ;
        newObject.addProperty("lat", "newValue");
        newObject.addProperty("lon", "newValue");
        inputObj.get("results").getAsJsonArray().add(newObject);
        System.out.println(inputObj);
    }

}