Parsing JSON Array within JSON Object

Question

I have some JSON with the following structure:

{\"source\":[
           {\"name\":\"john\",\"age\":20},
           {\"name\":\"michael\",\"age\":25},
                


        

Answer 1

line 2 should be

for (int i = 0; i < jsonMainArr.size(); i++) {  // **line 2**

For line 3, I'm having to do

    JSONObject childJSONObject = (JSONObject) new JSONParser().parse(jsonMainArr.get(i).toString());

Answer 2

Your code is fine, just replace the following line:

JSONArray jsonMainArr = new JSONArray(mainJSON.getJSONArray("source"));

with this line:

JSONArray jsonMainArr = mainJSON.getJSONArray("source");

Answer 3

This could be an answer to your question:

JSONArray msg1 = (JSONArray) json.get("source");
for(int i = 0; i < msg1.length(); i++){
  String name = msg1.getString("name");
  int age     = msg1.getInt("age");
}

Answer 4

mainJSON.getJSONArray("source") returns a JSONArray, hence you can remove the new JSONArray.

The JSONArray contructor with an object parameter expects it to be a Collection or Array (not JSONArray)

Try this:

JSONArray jsonMainArr = mainJSON.getJSONArray("source"); 

Answer 5

private static String readAll(Reader rd) throws IOException {
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    int cp;
    while ((cp = rd.read()) != -1) {
      sb.append((char) cp);
    }
    return sb.toString();
  }

 String jsonText = readAll(inputofyourjsonstream);
 JSONObject json = new JSONObject(jsonText);
 JSONArray arr = json.getJSONArray("sources");

Your arr would looks like: [ { "id":1001, "name":"jhon" }, { "id":1002, "name":"jhon" } ] You can use:

arr.getJSONObject(index)

to get the objects inside of the array.