How do I remove a specific element from a JSONArray?

Question

I am building one app in which I request a PHP file from server. This PHP file returns a JSONArray having JSONObjects as its elements e.g.,

[ 
  {
           


        

Answer 1

We can use iterator to filter out the array entries instead of creating a new  Array. 

'public static void removeNullsFrom(JSONArray array) throws JSONException {
                if (array != null) {
                    Iterator<Object> iterator = array.iterator();
                    while (iterator.hasNext()) {
                        Object o = iterator.next();
                        if (o == null || o == JSONObject.NULL) {
                            iterator.remove();
                        }
                    }
                }
            }'

Answer 2

In my case I wanted to remove jsonobject with status as non zero value, so what I did is made a function "removeJsonObject" which takes old json and gives required json and called that function inside the constuctor.

public CommonAdapter(Context context, JSONObject json, String type) {
        this.context=context;
        this.json= removeJsonObject(json);
        this.type=type;
        Log.d("CA:", "type:"+type);

    }

public JSONObject removeJsonObject(JSONObject jo){
        JSONArray ja= null;
        JSONArray jsonArray= new JSONArray();
        JSONObject jsonObject1=new JSONObject();

        try {
            ja = jo.getJSONArray("data");

        } catch (JSONException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        for(int i=0; i<ja.length(); i++){
            try {

                if(Integer.parseInt(ja.getJSONObject(i).getString("status"))==0)
                {
                    jsonArray.put(ja.getJSONObject(i));
                    Log.d("jsonarray:", jsonArray.toString());
                }


            } catch (JSONException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        try {
            jsonObject1.put("data",jsonArray);
            Log.d("jsonobject1:", jsonObject1.toString());

            return jsonObject1;
        } catch (JSONException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return json;
    }

Answer 3

You can use reflection

A Chinese website provides a relevant solution: http://blog.csdn.net/peihang1354092549/article/details/41957369
If you don't understand Chinese, please try to read it with the translation software.

He provides this code for the old version:

public void JSONArray_remove(int index, JSONArray JSONArrayObject) throws Exception{
    if(index < 0)
        return;
    Field valuesField=JSONArray.class.getDeclaredField("values");
    valuesField.setAccessible(true);
    List<Object> values=(List<Object>)valuesField.get(JSONArrayObject);
    if(index >= values.size())
        return;
    values.remove(index);
}