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

Posted by ivan1 ivan1
ivan1 ivan1
545 Points

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JSONChallenge.java 
// A JSONObject variable named 'jsonData'
// was loaded from the data.json file.
String name, publisher,  language;

JSONObject jsonData = new JSONObject(data);
name = getString("name");
publisher = getString("publisher");
language = 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

Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
40,533 Points
Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
40,533 Points

getString is a method of the JSONObject class, so you'll need to call it with an instance. In this case it would be jsonData:

name = jsonData.getString("name");
//...

jsonData has already been defined for you so you don't have to worry about declaring it.