Value of type org.json.JSONArray cannot be converted to JSONObject

Question

Got stuck at this error:

3169-3190/com.meisolsson.app E/JSON Parser﹕ Error parsing data org.json.JSONException: Value [{\"type\":0,\"can_see_custom_stori

Answer 1

[..] means it should be an JSONArray and {..} means it should be a JSONObject.

Therefore:

try {
        JSONArray jObj = new JSONArray(json);
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
    }

Answer 2

Even though I had a single JSON object it was stored in an array as Hariharan has pointed out with the square brackets [ { items:items, ... } ]

My solution was simply to parse out the only object, located in array position [0] like this

JSONArray jsonArray = new JSONArray(stringIn);

JSONObject obj = jsonArray.getJSONObject(0);