Parsing JSON string in Java

I am trying to parse a JSON string in java to have the individual value printed separately. But while making the program run I get the following error-

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Stub! at org.json.JSONObject.<init>(JSONObject.java:7) at ShowActivity.main(ShowActivity.java:29) 

My Class looks like-

import org.json.JSONException; import org.json.JSONObject; public class ShowActivity { private final static String jString = "{" + " \"geodata\": [" + " {" + " \"id\": \"1\"," + " \"name\": \"Julie Sherman\"," + " \"gender\" : \"female\"," + " \"latitude\" : \"37.33774833333334\"," + " \"longitude\" : \"-121.88670166666667\"" + " }" + " }," + " {" + " \"id\": \"2\"," + " \"name\": \"Johnny Depp\"," + " \"gender\" : \"male\"," + " \"latitude\" : \"37.336453\"," + " \"longitude\" : \"-121.884985\"" + " }" + " }" + " ]" + "}"; private static JSONObject jObject = null; public static void main(String[] args) throws JSONException { jObject = new JSONObject(jString); JSONObject geoObject = jObject.getJSONObject("geodata"); String geoId = geoObject.getString("id"); System.out.println(geoId); String name = geoObject.getString("name"); System.out.println(name); String gender=geoObject.getString("gender"); System.out.println(gender); String lat=geoObject.getString("latitude"); System.out.println(lat); String longit =geoObject.getString("longitude"); System.out.println(longit); } } 

Let me know what is it I am missing, or the reason why I do get that error everytime I run the application. Any comments would be appreciated.

7 Answers

See my comment. You need to include the full org.json library when running as android.jar only contains stubs to compile against.

In addition, you must remove the two instances of extra } in your JSON data following longitude.

 private final static String JSON_DATA = "{" + " \"geodata\": [" + " {" + " \"id\": \"1\"," + " \"name\": \"Julie Sherman\"," + " \"gender\" : \"female\"," + " \"latitude\" : \"37.33774833333334\"," + " \"longitude\" : \"-121.88670166666667\"" + " }," + " {" + " \"id\": \"2\"," + " \"name\": \"Johnny Depp\"," + " \"gender\" : \"male\"," + " \"latitude\" : \"37.336453\"," + " \"longitude\" : \"-121.884985\"" + " }" + " ]" + "}"; 

Apart from that, geodata is in fact not a JSONObject but a JSONArray.

Here is the fully working and tested corrected code:

import org.json.JSONArray; import org.json.JSONException; import org.json.JSONObject; public class ShowActivity { private final static String JSON_DATA = "{" + " \"geodata\": [" + " {" + " \"id\": \"1\"," + " \"name\": \"Julie Sherman\"," + " \"gender\" : \"female\"," + " \"latitude\" : \"37.33774833333334\"," + " \"longitude\" : \"-121.88670166666667\"" + " }," + " {" + " \"id\": \"2\"," + " \"name\": \"Johnny Depp\"," + " \"gender\" : \"male\"," + " \"latitude\" : \"37.336453\"," + " \"longitude\" : \"-121.884985\"" + " }" + " ]" + "}"; public static void main(final String[] argv) throws JSONException { final JSONObject obj = new JSONObject(JSON_DATA); final JSONArray geodata = obj.getJSONArray("geodata"); final int n = geodata.length(); for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) { final JSONObject person = geodata.getJSONObject(i); System.out.println(person.getInt("id")); System.out.println(person.getString("name")); System.out.println(person.getString("gender")); System.out.println(person.getDouble("latitude")); System.out.println(person.getDouble("longitude")); } } } 

Here's the output:

C:\dev\scrap>java -cp json.jar;. ShowActivity 1 Julie Sherman female 37.33774833333334 -121.88670166666667 2 Johnny Depp male 37.336453 -121.884985 

To convert your JSON string to hashmap you can make use of this :

HashMap<String, Object> hashMap = new HashMap<>(Utility.jsonToMap(response)) ; 

Use this class :) (handles even lists , nested lists and json)

public class Utility { public static Map<String, Object> jsonToMap(Object json) throws JSONException { if(json instanceof JSONObject) return _jsonToMap_((JSONObject)json) ; else if (json instanceof String) { JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject((String)json) ; return _jsonToMap_(jsonObject) ; } return null ; } private static Map<String, Object> _jsonToMap_(JSONObject json) throws JSONException { Map<String, Object> retMap = new HashMap<String, Object>(); if(json != JSONObject.NULL) { retMap = toMap(json); } return retMap; } private static Map<String, Object> toMap(JSONObject object) throws JSONException { Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>(); Iterator<String> keysItr = object.keys(); while(keysItr.hasNext()) { String key = keysItr.next(); Object value = object.get(key); if(value instanceof JSONArray) { value = toList((JSONArray) value); } else if(value instanceof JSONObject) { value = toMap((JSONObject) value); } map.put(key, value); } return map; } public static List<Object> toList(JSONArray array) throws JSONException { List<Object> list = new ArrayList<Object>(); for(int i = 0; i < array.length(); i++) { Object value = array.get(i); if(value instanceof JSONArray) { value = toList((JSONArray) value); } else if(value instanceof JSONObject) { value = toMap((JSONObject) value); } list.add(value); } return list; } } 

Looks like for both of your objects (inside the array), you have an extra closing brace after "Longitude".

Firstly there is an extra } after every array object.

Secondly "geodata" is a JSONArray. So instead of JSONObject geoObject = jObject.getJSONObject("geodata"); you have to get it as JSONArray geoObject = jObject.getJSONArray("geodata");

Once you have the JSONArray you can fetch each entry in the JSONArray using geoObject.get(<index>).

I am using org.codehaus.jettison.json.

Here is the example of one Object, For your case you have to use JSONArray.

public static final String JSON_STRING="{\"employee\":{\"name\":\"Sachin\",\"salary\":56000}}"; try{ JSONObject emp=(new JSONObject(JSON_STRING)).getJSONObject("employee"); String empname=emp.getString("name"); int empsalary=emp.getInt("salary"); String str="Employee Name:"+empname+"\n"+"Employee Salary:"+empsalary; textView1.setText(str); }catch (Exception e) {e.printStackTrace();} //Do when JSON has problem. } 

I don't have time but tried to give an idea. If you still can't do it, then I will help.

you have an extra "}" in each object, you may write the json string like this:

public class ShowActivity { private final static String jString = "{" + " \"geodata\": [" + " {" + " \"id\": \"1\"," + " \"name\": \"Julie Sherman\"," + " \"gender\" : \"female\"," + " \"latitude\" : \"37.33774833333334\"," + " \"longitude\" : \"-121.88670166666667\"" + " }" + " }," + " {" + " \"id\": \"2\"," + " \"name\": \"Johnny Depp\"," + " \"gender\" : \"male\"," + " \"latitude\" : \"37.336453\"," + " \"longitude\" : \"-121.884985\"" + " }" + " }" + " ]" + "}"; } 

We will print value of json using java object. We can parse json string to java object using Gson library. We have one json string like

 String json = "{"id":1,"name" : "json" }" 

Now we will parse json string to java object , So first we create java pojo with filed name id and name

public class Student { private int id; private String name; //getter //setter } 

We will create student object from json string using Gson

 Student stu = gson.fromJson(json, Student.class); 

Now you can print value of any filed of json using getter

 System.out.println(" id ="+ stu.getId() +" name ="+ stu.getName()); 

Reference : How to convert JSON to / from Java Object Gson Example