JSON extract values from key

Question

I have a String. I am converting it to JSONOBJECT and I am trying to extract the values based on the key.

JSON STRING:

jsonString="
{
\"AREA\": [\"IT,SALES\"],
\"CITY\": [\"LA\",\"NORTH\"]
}";

I want the values of "AREA"in one string and CITY in one String. I have tried :

JSONObject jsonOb = new JSONObject("jsonString");
String area = jsonOb.getString("AREA");

But I am not able to retrieve the values in that way. Need some suggestions.

@SegFault Updated my question. Sorry. jsonString the json itself. — user7637864, Mar 09 '17 at 22:28
Possible duplicate of [How do I pull the string array from this json object?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9373398/how-do-i-pull-the-string-array-from-this-json-object) — glw, Mar 09 '17 at 22:28
So you should remove the `"` around `jsonString` since it is a variable: `new JSONObject(jsonString);` — SegFault, Mar 09 '17 at 22:34

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 17 '17 at 15:17

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You were trying to access Area directly whereas it is a JSONArray Object.

String json="{\"AREA\": [\"IT,SALES\"],\"CITY\": [\"LA\", \"NORTH\"]}";
JSONObject jsonOb = new JSONObject(json);
JSONArray arrJson=jsonOb.getJSONArray("AREA");

for(int i=0;i<arrJson.length();i++)
System.out.println(arrJson.getString(i));

edited Sep 17 '17 at 15:17

Panda

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answered Mar 09 '17 at 22:38

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 09 '17 at 22:28

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JSONArray area = (JSONArray) jsonObject.get("AREA");
Iterator<String> iterator = area.iterator();
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
    System.out.println(iterator.next());
}

You should get a JSONArray object and then you can simply iterate and build the appropriate strings (using StringBuilder).

You can refer to this article for further help.

answered Mar 09 '17 at 22:28

Alon Segal

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Hi @Alon Segal. Thanks for the reply. I ma getting a typecast exception over here: "area.iterator();" – user7637864 Mar 09 '17 at 22:33

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 09 '17 at 22:28

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Your data has [], so use getJSONArray("AREA") and you can iterate over that.

(The method exactly would depend what library you have)

answered Mar 09 '17 at 22:28

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I am using org.json library here. @cricket_007 – user7637864 Mar 09 '17 at 22:30
Okay, I think that method exists then. Basically, `getString("AREA")` will try to return a String, not the list that is in your data – OneCricketeer Mar 09 '17 at 22:42

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 09 '17 at 22:34

I believe this is what you are after:

    String jsonString = "{\"AREA\": [\"IT,SALES\"],\"CITY\": [\"LA\",\"NORTH\"]}";
    JSONObject jObj;
    String areaString = "";
    String cityString = "";
    try
    {
        jObj = new JSONObject(jsonString);
        areaString = jObj.getJSONArray("AREA").toString();
        cityString = jObj.getJSONArray("CITY").toString();
    }
    catch (JSONException e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    System.out.println("areaString: " + areaString);
    System.out.println("cityString: " + cityString);

JSON extract values from key

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