Parsing JSON key with colon in it

Question

Consider this JSON string:

{
          "title": "value1",
          "link": "value2",
    "media:info": "value3"
}

I know how to parse title and link, but the parser isn't accepting media info because of the colon in the middle I think. Does anyone have any ideas?

That is valid json. How are you trying to access that particular key? — Marc B, Nov 19 '12 at 20:31
Hi guys, I didn't notice that this question was posted, I thought it failed, please refer to this question instead: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13462076/how-do-you-parse-json-with-a-colon-in-the-name-android-java — user1028408, Nov 20 '12 at 06:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 19 '12 at 20:42

Use JSONObject. I wrote the following tests using your example data and they passed.

public void testJsonParsing() throws JSONException {
    JSONObject manual = new JSONObject();
    manual.put("media:info", "value3");

    String rawData = "{ \"title\": \"value1\", \"link\": \"value2\", \"media:info\": \"value3\" }";
    JSONObject parsed = new JSONObject(rawData);

    String expected = "value3";
    String actual = manual.getString("media:info");
    assertEquals("Actual equals expected", expected, actual);

    actual = parsed.getString("media:info");        
    assertEquals("Actual equals expected", expected, actual);
}

Hi, I didn't notice that this question was posted, I thought it failed, please refer to this question instead: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13462076/how-do-you-parse-json-with-a-colon-in-the-name-android-java — user1028408, Nov 20 '12 at 06:32

Parsing JSON key with colon in it

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