parsing json with java

Question

I am a newbie to json parsing, I have grabbed a json string from a request and now I need to parse it with java. I'm using json-lib for this. But I'm really stuck as I'm not familiar with it. I need to extract following data

1. name (hotel name)
2. starRating
3. geoPoint

I used following java code for that but it's not giving me the result I need, please someone help me...

Thanks a lot!

java code (s is the json string I get)

JSONObject json = (JSONObject) JSONSerializer.toJSON(s);    
JSONArray jarray = json.getJSONArray("hotels");
for(int i=0 ; i < jarray.size(); i++) {
System.out.println("jarray [" + i + "] --------" + jarray.getString(i));
}

json I need to parse

[
{
    "total": 250,
    "offset": 0,
    "requestID": "-btygi09oxfov",
    "locationName": "Paris, France",
    "locationLatitude": 48.86,
    "locationLongitude": 2.34,
    "cityCode": "PARIS_J_FR",
    "hotels": [
        {
            "ypid": "YN10001x300073304",
            "id": 56263,
            "hotelRateIndicator": "2",
            "name": "Renaissance Paris Vendome Hotel",
            "brandCode": "69",
            "addressLine1": "4 Rue du Mont-Thabor",
            "city": "Paris",
            "neighborhood": "",
            "state": "IdF",
            "country": "US",
            "cachedPrice": 935,
            "geoPoint": [
                48.865361,
                2.329584
            ],
            "starRating": "5",
            "thumbnailUrl": "http://www.orbitz.com//public/hotelthumbnails/53/97/85397/85397_TBNL_1246535840051.jpg",
            "total": 250,
            "amenities": [
                "24",
                "31",
                "42",
                "52",
                "9"
            ],
            "telephoneNumbers": [
                ""
            ],
            "popularity": 837
        },
        {
            "ypid": "YN10001x300073331",
            "id": 112341,
            "hotelRateIndicator": "3",
            "name": "Renaissance Paris Arc de Triomphe Hotel",
            "brandCode": "69",
            "addressLine1": "39 Avenue de Wagram",
            "city": "Paris",
            "neighborhood": "",
            "state": "IdF",
            "country": "US",
            "cachedPrice": 633,
            "geoPoint": [
                48.877107,
                2.297451
            ],
            "starRating": "5",
            "thumbnailUrl": "http://www.orbitz.com//public/hotelthumbnails/21/72/302172/302172_TBNL_1246535872514.jpg",
            "total": 250,
            "amenities": [
                "24",
                "31",
                "42",
                "9"
            ],
            "telephoneNumbers": [
                ""
            ],
            "popularity": 796
        }           
  ]         
}           
  ]

Answer 1

Any JSON object can be represented as a Map<String, Object>.

Use a library like jackson (shipped with spring), which can deserialize json to a Map like this:

Map<String, Object> obj = new ObjectMapper().readValue(json, new TypeReference<Map<String, Object>>());

Or the slower, but google-branded, GSON, which can be used like.

Map<String, Object> obj = new Gson().fromJson(json, HashMap.class);

Answer 2

To get past the ClassCastException, you just need to make the change it's telling you to make: to handle the input as an array and not as an object.

JSONArray outerArray = (JSONArray) JSONSerializer.toJSON(s);
JSONObject json = (JSONObject) outerArray.get(0);
JSONArray jarray = json.getJSONArray("hotels");
for (int i = 0; i < jarray.size(); i++)
{
  System.out.println("jarray [" + i + "] --------" + jarray.getString(i));
}

And, here's an example of getting each hotel name.

JSONArray outerArray = (JSONArray) JSONSerializer.toJSON(s);
JSONObject json = (JSONObject) outerArray.get(0);
JSONArray jarray = json.getJSONArray("hotels");
for (int i = 0; i < jarray.size(); i++)
{
  JSONObject hotel = jarray.getJSONObject(i);
  String name = hotel.getString("name");
  System.out.println(name);
}

Answer 3

I recommend Djson parser(java library). https://github.com/jungkoo/djson_parser

code:

Var hotels = Djson.parse(new File("d:\\sample1.txt")).find("[0].hotels");

for(int i=0; i<hotels.size(); i++) {            
  System.out.println(hotels.get(i).get("name").toString());
  System.out.println(hotels.get(i).get("starRating").toInt());
  System.out.println(hotels.get(i).find("geoPoint").get(0).toDouble()); // case1) basic
  System.out.println(hotels.get(i).find("geoPoint[1]").toDouble()); // case2) find()    
  System.out.println();
}

output:

Renaissance Paris Vendome Hotel 5
48.865361
2.329584

Renaissance Paris Arc de Triomphe Hotel 5
48.877107
2.297451

Answer 4

Download the json-lib and Use JSONObject

Lets say {"name": "joe", "age": 33}

Do like this

JSONObject jobject=new JSONObject(jsonstring);
String name=jobject.getString("name");

Answer 5

I have started a github project project called JsonQuery that makes this kind of thing easier.

The project is built on top of GSON.

If you wanted to retrieve the name of your hotel, for example, it could be as simple as this:

JsonQuery $ = JsonQuery.fromJson(s); 
$.val("hotels.name");

Here is the link:

https://github.com/rdbeach/JsonQuery