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

Posted by Evgeniy Bobrovnichiy
Evgeniy Bobrovnichiy
3,165 Points

Where I have a mistake! I don't understand!

Where I have a mistake! I don't understand!

JSONChallenge.java 
// A JSONObject variable named 'jsonData'
// was loaded from the data.json file.

   try{
   JSONObject jsonData = new JSONObject("data.json");
   String name = jsonData.getString("name");
   String publisher = jsonData.getString("publisher");
   String language = jsonData.getString("language");
   } catch (JSONException e){
          e.printStackTrace();
   }
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

sara123
sara123
16,108 Points
sara123
sara123
16,108 Points

Hi, Evgeniy. <br><br> There is no mistake in your code!

In this code challenge, you just need to answer three variables you created.

String name = jsonData.getString("name");
String publisher = jsonData.getString("publisher");
String language = jsonData.getString("language");

<br><br> Hope this helps :)