How to iterate over a JSONObject?

Question

I use a JSON library called JSONObject (I don\'t mind switching if I need to).

I know how to iterate over JSONArrays, but when I parse JSO

Answer 1

Below code worked fine for me. Please help me if tuning can be done. This gets all the keys even from the nested JSON objects.

public static void main(String args[]) {
    String s = ""; // Sample JSON to be parsed

    JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
    JSONObject obj = null;
    try {
        obj = (JSONObject) parser.parse(s);
        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
        List<String> parameterKeys = new ArrayList<String>(obj.keySet());
        List<String>  result = null;
        List<String> keys = new ArrayList<>();
        for (String str : parameterKeys) {
            keys.add(str);
            result = this.addNestedKeys(obj, keys, str);
        }
        System.out.println(result.toString());
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}
public static List<String> addNestedKeys(JSONObject obj, List<String> keys, String key) {
    if (isNestedJsonAnArray(obj.get(key))) {
        JSONArray array = (JSONArray) obj.get(key);
        for (int i = 0; i < array.length(); i++) {
            try {
                JSONObject arrayObj = (JSONObject) array.get(i);
                List<String> list = new ArrayList<>(arrayObj.keySet());
                for (String s : list) {
                    putNestedKeysToList(keys, key, s);
                    addNestedKeys(arrayObj, keys, s);
                }
            } catch (JSONException e) {
                LOG.error("", e);
            }
        }
    } else if (isNestedJsonAnObject(obj.get(key))) {
        JSONObject arrayObj = (JSONObject) obj.get(key);
        List<String> nestedKeys = new ArrayList<>(arrayObj.keySet());
        for (String s : nestedKeys) {
            putNestedKeysToList(keys, key, s);
            addNestedKeys(arrayObj, keys, s);
        }
    }
    return keys;
}

private static void putNestedKeysToList(List<String> keys, String key, String s) {
    if (!keys.contains(key + Constants.JSON_KEY_SPLITTER + s)) {
        keys.add(key + Constants.JSON_KEY_SPLITTER + s);
    }
}



private static boolean isNestedJsonAnObject(Object object) {
    boolean bool = false;
    if (object instanceof JSONObject) {
        bool = true;
    }
    return bool;
}

private static boolean isNestedJsonAnArray(Object object) {
    boolean bool = false;
    if (object instanceof JSONArray) {
        bool = true;
    }
    return bool;
}

Answer 2

Maybe this will help:

JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(contents.trim());
Iterator<String> keys = jsonObject.keys();

while(keys.hasNext()) {
    String key = keys.next();
    if (jsonObject.get(key) instanceof JSONObject) {
          // do something with jsonObject here      
    }
}

Answer 3

First put this somewhere:

private <T> Iterable<T> iteratorToIterable(final Iterator<T> iterator) {
    return new Iterable<T>() {
        @Override
        public Iterator<T> iterator() {
            return iterator;
        }
    };
}

Or if you have access to Java8, just this:

private <T> Iterable<T> iteratorToIterable(Iterator<T> iterator) {
    return () -> iterator;
}

Then simply iterate over the object's keys and values:

for (String key : iteratorToIterable(object.keys())) {
    JSONObject entry = object.getJSONObject(key);
    // ...

Answer 4

Can't believe that there is no more simple and secured solution than using an iterator in this answers...

JSONObject names () method returns a JSONArray of the JSONObject keys, so you can simply walk though it in loop:

JSONObject object = new JSONObject ();
JSONArray keys = object.names ();

for (int i = 0; i < keys.length (); i++) {
   
   String key = keys.getString (i); // Here's your key
   String value = object.getString (key); // Here's your value
   
}

Answer 5

I made a small recursive function that goes through the entire json object and saves the key path and its value.

// My stored keys and values from the json object
HashMap<String,String> myKeyValues = new HashMap<String,String>();

// Used for constructing the path to the key in the json object
Stack<String> key_path = new Stack<String>();

// Recursive function that goes through a json object and stores 
// its key and values in the hashmap 
private void loadJson(JSONObject json){
    Iterator<?> json_keys = json.keys();

    while( json_keys.hasNext() ){
        String json_key = (String)json_keys.next();

        try{
            key_path.push(json_key);
            loadJson(json.getJSONObject(json_key));
       }catch (JSONException e){
           // Build the path to the key
           String key = "";
           for(String sub_key: key_path){
               key += sub_key+".";
           }
           key = key.substring(0,key.length()-1);

           System.out.println(key+": "+json.getString(json_key));
           key_path.pop();
           myKeyValues.put(key, json.getString(json_key));
        }
    }
    if(key_path.size() > 0){
        key_path.pop();
    }
}

Answer 6

Iterator<JSONObject> iterator = jsonObject.values().iterator();

while (iterator.hasNext()) {
 jsonChildObject = iterator.next();

 // Do whatever you want with jsonChildObject 

  String id = (String) jsonChildObject.get("id");
}