parse string array from JSON

Question

i have this JSON object:

{"error":null,
 "result":[{"id":"1234567890",
            "count":1,
            "recipients":
            ["u3848",
               "u8958",
               "u7477474"
            ],
            "dateCreated":"2012-06-13T09:13:45.989Z"
           }]
 }

and I'm trying to find a way to correctly parse the recipients array into a String[] object.

is there an easy way to do this?

EDIT:

found this answer that has all the things needed for result: Sending and Parsing JSON Objects

possible duplicate of [Sending and Parsing JSON in Android](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2818697/sending-and-parsing-json-in-android) — thepoosh, Jun 13 '12 at 10:16

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 26 '12 at 07:19

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the way to do what I wanted was this:

JSONArray temp = jsonObject.getJSONArray("name");
int length = temp.length();
if (length > 0) {
    String [] recipients = new String [length];
    for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
        recipients[i] = temp.getString(i);
    }
}

answered Jun 26 '12 at 07:19

thepoosh

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Where is that "name" attribute coming from? You don't have that anywhere in your original post. – Mathias Conradt Jul 14 '15 at 05:50
the `name` attribute needs to be predefined since JSON is a key/value store. – thepoosh Jul 14 '15 at 09:13
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Right. (I was wondering because you replied to your own question, where the key was not there.) Should be "recipients" instead of "name" therefore. – Mathias Conradt Jul 15 '15 at 08:25

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 13 '12 at 09:44

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You can try to use xstream with json serializer. Take a look this link

answered Jun 13 '12 at 09:44

Wins

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 13 '12 at 10:03

I always suggest my favorite library json-lib to handle JSON stuffs.

You can use JSONArray to convert to Object[], although it's not String[], you can still use it because every Object has toString() method.

String sYourJsonString = "['u3848', 'u8958', 'u7477474']";
Object[] arrayReceipients = JSONArray.toArray (JSONArray.fromObject(sYourJsonString));
System.out.println (arrayReceipients [0]); // u3848

parse string array from JSON

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