Java Append object to JSON

Question

I would like to append JSON object to existing JSON array to get data structure like this.

\"results\":[
      {
         \"lat\":\"value\",
         \"lon\"         


        

Answer 1

If you want to add new value to an Object you can try the below as well

Before:

{
    "Name": "EnCoMa",
    "Manager": "Abhishek Kasetty"
 }

code :

JsonFactory factory = new JsonFactory();      
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(factory);
    ObjectWriter ow = new ObjectMapper().writer().withDefaultPrettyPrinter();
    String json = ow.writeValueAsString(TheObjectToWhichYouWantToAddNewValue);
    ObjectNode node = (ObjectNode) mapper.readTree(json);
    node.putPOJO("new Key","new value")

after:

{
    "Name": "EnCoMa",
    "Manager": "Abhishek Kasetty",
    "new Key": "new value"
}

Answer 2

There isnt any problem with your code. It does append

String jsonDataString = "{\"results\":[{\"lat\":\"value\",\"lon\":\"value\" }, { \"lat\":\"value\", \"lon\":\"value\"}]}";
JSONObject mainObject = new JSONObject(jsonDataString);
JSONObject valuesObject = new JSONObject();
JSONArray list = new JSONArray();
valuesObject.put("lat", "newValue");
valuesObject.put("lon", "newValue");
valuesObject.put("city", "newValue");
valuesObject.put("street", "newValue");
valuesObject.put("date", "newValue");
valuesObject.put("time", "newValue");
list.put(valuesObject);
mainObject.accumulate("values", list);
System.out.println(mainObject);

This prints {"values":[[{"date":"newValue","city":"newValue","street":"newValue","lon":"newValue","time":"newValue","lat":"newValue"}]],"results":[{"lon":"value","lat":"value"},{"lon":"value","lat":"value"}]}. Isnt this what you are expecting?

With gson you can do like

import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.JsonObject;


public class AddJson {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String json = "{\"results\":[{\"lat\":\"value\",\"lon\":\"value\" }, { \"lat\":\"value\", \"lon\":\"value\"}]}";
        Gson gson = new Gson();
        JsonObject inputObj  = gson.fromJson(json, JsonObject.class);
        JsonObject newObject = new JsonObject() ;
        newObject.addProperty("lat", "newValue");
        newObject.addProperty("lon", "newValue");
        inputObj.get("results").getAsJsonArray().add(newObject);
        System.out.println(inputObj);
    }

}

Answer 3

Simple Approach

    String jsonData = "{\"results\":[{\"lat\":\"value\",\"lon\":\"value\" }]}";
    System.out.println(jsonData);
    try {
        JSONArray result = new JSONObject(jsonData).getJSONArray("results");
        result.getJSONObject(0).put("city","Singapore");
        jsonData = "{\"results\":"+result.toString()+"}";
        System.out.println(jsonData);
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

OutPut Before Appending

{"results":[{"lat":"value","lon":"value" }]} 

OutPut After Appending

{"results":[{"lon":"value","lat":"value","city":"Singapore"}]}