Hello I have the following task:
A URL that has a JSON Object:
- Write a program to read/write URL - Parse data in URL using JSON to JAVA Object - display 3 variables to user from the object - Find entity/list of object = Find object that has ‘name’ - Find Object that has ‘author’ - Find Object that has ‘item’*Define through annotation how to define JSON into Java list and find Object that has ‘name’ in it.
I think the question is asking to parse the JSON without using any java library. So far I have developed the following code:
class JSONObject {
HashMap map = new HashMap();
}
public class SYW {
public static String sampleUrl = "https://api.github.com/users/mralexgray/repos";
public static Integer index = 1;
public static void main(String[] args) {
//String sampleJSON = fetchJSON(sampleUrl);
JSONObject json = getJSONObject("{\"login\": \"mralexgray\",\"id\": 262517,\"avatar_url\": \"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/262517?v=3\"}");
// suppose there is a owner class
populateJavaObject(json, Owner.class);
}
public static void populateJavaObject(JSONObject json, Class class1) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
Object obj = null;
try {
obj = class1.newInstance();
Iterator it = json.map.keySet().iterator();
while (it.hasNext()) {
String key = (String)it.next();
Object value = json.map.get(key);
Field field = class1.getDeclaredField(key);
field.setAccessible(true);
if (value instanceof Integer) {
field.setInt(obj, (Integer)value);
} else if (value instanceof String) {
field.setString(obj, (String)value);
}
}
} catch (InstantiationException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (SecurityException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public static String getString(String jsonStr) {
int i = index;
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
while (jsonStr.charAt(i) != '\"') {
jsonStr.charAt(i);
buf.append(jsonStr.charAt(i));
i++;
}
index = i;
return buf.toString();
}
public static JSONObject getJSONObject (String jsonStr) {
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
boolean isKey = true;
String currentKey = "";
Object currentValue = "";
JSONObject json = new JSONObject();
while (jsonStr.charAt(index) != '}') {
if (jsonStr.charAt(index) == '\"') {
index++;
String token = getString(jsonStr);
if (isKey) {
currentKey = token;
} else {
currentValue = token;
}
} else if (Character.isDigit(jsonStr.charAt(index))) {
Integer token = getNumber(jsonStr);
currentValue = token;
} else if (jsonStr.charAt(index) == '{') {
currentValue = getJSONObject(jsonStr);
} else if (jsonStr.charAt(index) == '[') {
currentValue = getArray(jsonStr);
} else if (jsonStr.charAt(index) == ':') {
isKey = false;
} else if (jsonStr.charAt(index) == ',' || jsonStr.charAt(index) == '}') {
isKey = true;
json.map.put(currentKey, currentValue);
}
index++;
}
return json;
}
private static ArrayList getArray(String jsonStr) {
ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
while (jsonStr.charAt(index) != ']') {
index++;
}
return null;
}
private static Integer getNumber(String jsonStr) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
Integer num = 0;
while (Character.isDigit(jsonStr.charAt(index))) {
num = num * 10 + Integer.parseInt(jsonStr.charAt(index)+"");
index++;
}
index--;
return num;
}
public static Object parseJSON(String jsonStr) {
Owner owner = new Owner();
while (index <= jsonStr.length()) {
if (jsonStr.charAt(index) == '{') {
return getJSONObject(jsonStr);
} else if (jsonStr.charAt(index) == '[') {
return getArray(jsonStr);
}
}
return null;
}
public static String fetchJSON(String url) {
String nextLine = "";
try {
URL sywURL = new URL(url);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(sywURL.openStream()));
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
while ((nextLine = reader.readLine()) != null) {
buf.append(nextLine);
}
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
return nextLine;
}
}
What I am doing here is I have a JSONObject class which stores the JSON attributes in a map then I want to use reflection to populate any class.
For parsing the JSON, I am trying to create a mini FSM ( :) ), which parses the string using a for loop and based on the character it either parses the string or number or array token. I am using a non-generic map so that I can store object of any type.
I was thinking may be I can use template or something pattern where each node will have a recursive structure or will be a leaf node. But I am really confused how to represent that because each leaf node can have one attribute and value. How can I represent that? Besides Is this the only way to represent that or whatever I have done so far is in the right direction?
Secondly, if I parse the objects, then how can I store them? Obviously the task is to find elements based on different attribute values. So I can create probably a hashmap based on one key to serve the one such query. But then how can I create an efficient data structure that will allow me efficiently query based on different attributes?
Thirdly, I am not sure what this means "Define through annotation how to define JSON into Java list and find Object that has ‘name’ in it."
Please help.
Thanks
