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

for my case i found iterating the names() works well

for(int i = 0; i<jobject.names().length(); i++){
    Log.v(TAG, "key = " + jobject.names().getString(i) + " value = " + jobject.get(jobject.names().getString(i)));
}

Answer 2

With Java 8 and lambda, cleaner:

JSONObject jObject = new JSONObject(contents.trim());

jObject.keys().forEachRemaining(k ->
{

});

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Iterator.html#forEachRemaining-java.util.function.Consumer-

Answer 3

This is is another working solution to the problem:

public void test (){

    Map<String, String> keyValueStore = new HasMap<>();
    Stack<String> keyPath = new Stack();
    JSONObject json = new JSONObject("thisYourJsonObject");
    keyValueStore = getAllXpathAndValueFromJsonObject(json, keyValueStore, keyPath);
    for(Map.Entry<String, String> map : keyValueStore.entrySet()) {
        System.out.println(map.getKey() + ":" + map.getValue());
    }   
}

public Map<String, String> getAllXpathAndValueFromJsonObject(JSONObject json, Map<String, String> keyValueStore, Stack<String> keyPath) {
    Set<String> jsonKeys = json.keySet();
    for (Object keyO : jsonKeys) {
        String key = (String) keyO;
        keyPath.push(key);
        Object object = json.get(key);

        if (object instanceof JSONObject) {
            getAllXpathAndValueFromJsonObject((JSONObject) object, keyValueStore, keyPath);
        }

        if (object instanceof JSONArray) {
            doJsonArray((JSONArray) object, keyPath, keyValueStore, json, key);
        }

        if (object instanceof String || object instanceof Boolean || object.equals(null)) {
            String keyStr = "";

            for (String keySub : keyPath) {
                keyStr += keySub + ".";
            }

            keyStr = keyStr.substring(0, keyStr.length() - 1);

            keyPath.pop();

            keyValueStore.put(keyStr, json.get(key).toString());
        }
    }

    if (keyPath.size() > 0) {
        keyPath.pop();
    }

    return keyValueStore;
}

public void doJsonArray(JSONArray object, Stack<String> keyPath, Map<String, String> keyValueStore, JSONObject json,
        String key) {
    JSONArray arr = (JSONArray) object;
    for (int i = 0; i < arr.length(); i++) {
        keyPath.push(Integer.toString(i));
        Object obj = arr.get(i);
        if (obj instanceof JSONObject) {
            getAllXpathAndValueFromJsonObject((JSONObject) obj, keyValueStore, keyPath);
        }

        if (obj instanceof JSONArray) {
            doJsonArray((JSONArray) obj, keyPath, keyValueStore, json, key);
        }

        if (obj instanceof String || obj instanceof Boolean || obj.equals(null)) {
            String keyStr = "";

            for (String keySub : keyPath) {
                keyStr += keySub + ".";
            }

            keyStr = keyStr.substring(0, keyStr.length() - 1);

            keyPath.pop();

            keyValueStore.put(keyStr , json.get(key).toString());
        }
    }
    if (keyPath.size() > 0) {
        keyPath.pop();
    }
}

Answer 4

Most of the answers here are for flat JSON structures, in case you have a JSON which might have nested JSONArrays or Nested JSONObjects, the real complexity arises. The following code snippet takes care of such a business requirement. It takes a hash map, and hierarchical JSON with both nested JSONArrays and JSONObjects and updates the JSON with the data in the hash map

public void updateData(JSONObject fullResponse, HashMap<String, String> mapToUpdate) {

    fullResponse.keySet().forEach(keyStr -> {
        Object keyvalue = fullResponse.get(keyStr);

        if (keyvalue instanceof JSONArray) {
            updateData(((JSONArray) keyvalue).getJSONObject(0), mapToUpdate);
        } else if (keyvalue instanceof JSONObject) {
            updateData((JSONObject) keyvalue, mapToUpdate);
        } else {
            // System.out.println("key: " + keyStr + " value: " + keyvalue);
            if (mapToUpdate.containsKey(keyStr)) {
                fullResponse.put(keyStr, mapToUpdate.get(keyStr));
            }
        }
    });

}

You have to notice here that the return type of this is void, but sice objects are passed as refernce this change is refelected to the caller.