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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Working with JSON Using JSONObject

Posted by vjosa preniqi
vjosa preniqi
2,211 Points

How to load the data from the file data.jason into the object JSONObject ?

I'm trying to make the challenge complete, but it's imposible because the compiler does not know the initialization of the object : JSONObject jsonData = new JSONObject ("jsonData"); please help me to resolve this problem; because I this the description of the question is not withe proper details. I need more detailed question.

JSONChallenge.java 
// A JSONObject variable named 'jsonData'
JSONObject jsonData= new JSONObject(data.json.string());
// was loaded from the data.json file.
String name=jsonData.getString("name");
String publisher=jsonData.getString("publisher");
String language = jsonData.getString("language");
data.json 
{
    "name":"Treehouse Book Series",
    "publisher":"Wiley",
    "language":"English",
    "books":[
        {
            "title":"HTML5 Foundations",
            "author":"Matt West",
            "pages":384
        },
        {
            "title":"CSS3 Foundations",
            "author":"Ian Lunn",
            "pages":352
        }
    ]
}

1 Answer

James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points
James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points

Hello,

You're very close to having this challenge done. The jsonData object was already created for you in some hidden wrapper code, which is what the comments were referring to. All you need to do to finish this is to remove the line:

JSONObject jsonData= new JSONObject(data.json.string());

and you should be able to pass the challenge. Please let us know if this helps or not so we can help further if you need it. Also please try to provide updated code if you do need more assistance so we can help you from your current setup.