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I'm consuming an external API, for which a JSON Object is returned. Contained in that Object response is an array that I need to extract and set to a List of a particular entity type. Java, however, is not a language that I'm very familiar with, so I'm having problems attempting to figure this out.
I've created a type of wrapper class to work with this in the setter.
The best I've come up with that compiles is below, but produces an error that I can't figure out.
public void setFlights(Object responseBody) {
String responseString = responseBody.toString();
JSONObject responseJSONObject = new JSONObject(responseString);
JSONArray responseJSONArray = responseJSONObject.getJSONArray("flights");
Gson gson = new Gson();
Type flightType = new TypeToken<List<Flight>>() {}.getType();
this.flights = gson.fromJson(String.valueOf(responseJSONArray), flightType);
}
As you can see, I'm kind of throwing it at the wall to see if it will stick. I'm trying to use Gson to get around some of the Type issues I've come across.
The error produced when executing is:
org.json.JSONException: Expected a ':' after a key at 7 [character 8 line 1]
Response String is as follows:
Response String Image
If that's difficult to deal with, here's the response in text:
INFO: {"FlightInfoResult":{"next_offset":-1,"flights":[{"ident":"N1RJ","aircrafttype":"HDJT","filed_ete":"01:25:00","filed_time":1593038253,"filed_departuretime":1593037500,"filed_airspeed_kts":400,"filed_airspeed_mach":"","filed_altitude":360,"route":"WEAZL4 CLAWD","actualdeparturetime":1593038285,"estimatedarrivaltime":1593043320,"actualarrivaltime":1593043320,"diverted":"","origin":"KJQF","destination":"KJXN","originName":"Concord-Padgett Rgnl","originCity":"Concord, NC","destinationName":"Jackson County","destinationCity":"Jackson, MI"},{"ident":"N1RJ","aircrafttype":"HDJT","filed_ete":"01:24:00","filed_time":1593000320,"filed_departuretime":1592998200,"filed_airspeed_kts":400,"filed_airspeed_mach":"","filed_altitude":350,"route":"PEGTE","actualdeparturetime":1593000420,"estimatedarrivaltime":1593005149,"actualarrivaltime":1593005149,"diverted":"","origin":"KJXN","destination":"KJQF","originName":"Jackson County","originCity":"Jackson, MI","destinationName":"Concord-Padgett Rgnl","destinationCity":"Concord, NC"},{"ident":"N1RJ","aircrafttype":"HDJT","filed_ete":"01:29:00","filed_time":1592518049,"filed_departuretime":1592513400,"filed_airspeed_kts":317,"filed_airspeed_mach":"","filed_altitude":360,"route":"WEAZL4 CLAWD","actualdeparturetime":1592517936,"estimatedarrivaltime":1592523120,"actualarrivaltime":1592523120,"diverted":"","origin":"KJQF","destination":"KJXN","originName":"Concord-Padgett Rgnl","originCity":"Concord, NC","destinationName":"Jackson County","destinationCity":"Jackson, MI"},{"ident":"N1RJ","aircrafttype":"HDJT","filed_ete":"01:24:00","filed_time":1592481020,"filed_departuretime":1592479800,"filed_airspeed_kts":319,"filed_airspeed_mach":"","filed_altitude":350,"route":"PEGTE","actualdeparturetime":1592481126,"estimatedarrivaltime":1592486100,"actualarrivaltime":1592486100,"diverted":"","origin":"KJXN","destination":"KJQF","originName":"Jackson County","originCity":"Jackson, MI","destinationName":"Concord-Padgett Rgnl","destinationCity":"Concord, NC"}]}}
There very well may be a much more simple way of accomplishing what I need. Any example help is very much appreciated.
You can use Gson string to object mapper class directly as like below,
package com.sample.programs;
import java.util.List;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
public class FlightInfoResultMain {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String input = "{\"FlightInfoResult\":{\"next_offset\":-1,\"flights\":[{\"ident\":\"N1RJ\",\"aircrafttype\":\"HDJT\",\"filed_ete\":\"01:25:00\",\"filed_time\":1593038253,\"filed_departuretime\":1593037500,\"filed_airspeed_kts\":400,\"filed_airspeed_mach\":\"\",\"filed_altitude\":360,\"route\":\"WEAZL4 CLAWD\",\"actualdeparturetime\":1593038285,\"estimatedarrivaltime\":1593043320,\"actualarrivaltime\":1593043320,\"diverted\":\"\",\"origin\":\"KJQF\",\"destination\":\"KJXN\",\"originName\":\"Concord-Padgett Rgnl\",\"originCity\":\"Concord, NC\",\"destinationName\":\"Jackson County\",\"destinationCity\":\"Jackson, MI\"},{\"ident\":\"N1RJ\",\"aircrafttype\":\"HDJT\",\"filed_ete\":\"01:24:00\",\"filed_time\":1593000320,\"filed_departuretime\":1592998200,\"filed_airspeed_kts\":400,\"filed_airspeed_mach\":\"\",\"filed_altitude\":350,\"route\":\"PEGTE\",\"actualdeparturetime\":1593000420,\"estimatedarrivaltime\":1593005149,\"actualarrivaltime\":1593005149,\"diverted\":\"\",\"origin\":\"KJXN\",\"destination\":\"KJQF\",\"originName\":\"Jackson County\",\"originCity\":\"Jackson, MI\",\"destinationName\":\"Concord-Padgett Rgnl\",\"destinationCity\":\"Concord, NC\"},{\"ident\":\"N1RJ\",\"aircrafttype\":\"HDJT\",\"filed_ete\":\"01:29:00\",\"filed_time\":1592518049,\"filed_departuretime\":1592513400,\"filed_airspeed_kts\":317,\"filed_airspeed_mach\":\"\",\"filed_altitude\":360,\"route\":\"WEAZL4 CLAWD\",\"actualdeparturetime\":1592517936,\"estimatedarrivaltime\":1592523120,\"actualarrivaltime\":1592523120,\"diverted\":\"\",\"origin\":\"KJQF\",\"destination\":\"KJXN\",\"originName\":\"Concord-Padgett Rgnl\",\"originCity\":\"Concord, NC\",\"destinationName\":\"Jackson County\",\"destinationCity\":\"Jackson, MI\"},{\"ident\":\"N1RJ\",\"aircrafttype\":\"HDJT\",\"filed_ete\":\"01:24:00\",\"filed_time\":1592481020,\"filed_departuretime\":1592479800,\"filed_airspeed_kts\":319,\"filed_airspeed_mach\":\"\",\"filed_altitude\":350,\"route\":\"PEGTE\",\"actualdeparturetime\":1592481126,\"estimatedarrivaltime\":1592486100,\"actualarrivaltime\":1592486100,\"diverted\":\"\",\"origin\":\"KJXN\",\"destination\":\"KJQF\",\"originName\":\"Jackson County\",\"originCity\":\"Jackson, MI\",\"destinationName\":\"Concord-Padgett Rgnl\",\"destinationCity\":\"Concord, NC\"}]}}";
System.out.println("input - " + input);
//Create Gson object
Gson gson = new Gson();
FlightInfoResultObject responseObject = gson.fromJson(input, FlightInfoResultObject.class);
// parsing response to java pojo
List<Flights> listOfFlights = responseObject.getFlightInfoResult().getFlights();
for (Flights flight : listOfFlights) {
System.out.println("flight - " + flight.getIdent());
}
}
}
Object Mapping class: Inside Flights.class you can add all the variable which you have in json response.
class FlightInfoResultObject {
FlightInfoResult FlightInfoResult;
#Getter
#Setter
}
class FlightInfoResult {
Integer next_offset;
List<Flights> flights;
#Getter
#Setter
}
class Flights {
String ident;
String aircrafttype;
#Getter
#Setter
}
I think it's impossible to retrieve the inner JSON element directly using gson.
You have to get FlightInfoResult then flights accordingly. This should work:
Gson gson = new Gson();
JsonObject jsonObject = com.google.gson.JsonParser.parseString(responseString).getAsJsonObject();
JsonArray flightArray = jsonObject.getAsJsonObject("FlightInfoResult").getAsJsonArray("flights");
Type flightType = new TypeToken<List<Flight>>() {}.getType();
List<Flight> flights = gson.fromJson(flightArray, flightType);
Anyway, make sure the name of all properties inside class Flight matches Json elements name, to avoid mapping errors.
Since you didn't post your Flight class definition and gson naming rule, but the Flight class should be like:
public class Flight {
private String ident;
private String aircrafttype;
private String filed_ete;
private float filed_time;
private float filed_departuretime;
private float filed_airspeed_kts;
private String filed_airspeed_mach;
private float filed_altitude;
private String route;
private float actualdeparturetime;
private float estimatedarrivaltime;
private float actualarrivaltime;
private String diverted;
private String origin;
private String destination;
private String originName;
private String originCity;
private String destinationName;
private String destinationCity;
// getters setters
I have class with some properties, for example:
public class MyClass {
public int number;
public String s;
}
and I want to convert Map of this class to json. for example:
Map<String, MyClass> map = new HashMap();
map.put("sss", new MyClass(1, "blabla");
json j = new json(map);
and I want the output to be like:
{"sss":{"number":"1","s":"blabla"}}
someone know how to do that in JAVA? I tried with JSONObject and with Gson but did not work for me.
you can use toJson() method of Gson class to convert a java object to json ,see the example below ,
public class SomeObject {
private int data1 = 100;
private String data2 = "hello";
private List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>() {
{
add("String 1");
add("String 2");
add("String 3");
}
};
//getter and setter methods
#Override
public String toString() {
return "SomeObject [data1=" + data1 + ", data2=" + data2 + ", list="
+ list + "]";
}
}
i will convert the above class' object to json , getter and setter methods are useful when you are converting the json back to java object .
public static void main(String[] args) {
SomeObject obj = new SomeObject();
Gson gson = new Gson();
// convert java object to JSON format,
// and returned as JSON formatted string
String json = gson.toJson(obj);
System.out.println(json);
}
output :
{"data1":100,"data2":"hello","list":["String 1","String 2","String 3"]}
Using Gson:
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().create();
String json = gson.toJson(map);
You have to fix, parenthesis issue.
map.put("sss", new MyClass(1,"test")); //observe 2 braces at the end!
Following code should do the trick for you,
Gson gson = new Gson();
String myJson = gson.toJson(map);
Output:
{"sss":{"number":1,"s":"test"}}
Implement some custom toJSON() method for each class as shown below:
public class MyClass1 {
String number;
String name;
public MyClass1(String number, String name){
this.number = number;
this.name = name;
}
public JSONObject toJSON() throws JSONException {
return new JSONObject("{\"number\" : \""+this.number+"\", \"name\":\""+this.name+"\"}");
}
}
And then just use it to convert your map to jsonObject:
public class MapToJSON {
public static void main(String[] args) throws JSONException {
Map<String, JSONObject> map = new HashMap<String, JSONObject>();
map.put("sss", new MyClass1("1", "Hello").toJSON());
System.out.println(new JSONObject(map));
}
}
I found the way how to do that:
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import org.json.JSONObject;
Gson gson = new Gson();
map.put("sss", new JSONObject(gson.toJson(new MyClass(1, "Hello"))));
map.put("aaa", new JSONObject(gson.toJson(new MyClass(2, "blabla"))));
String output = new JSONObject(map).toString();
and now the output is correct.
Thanks a lot to all the people that tried to help me with this problem...
I am having a class like following,
public class Student {
public int id;
public String name;
public int age;
}
Now I want to create new Student,
//while create new student
Student stu = new Student();
stu.age = 25;
stu.name = "Guna";
System.out.println(new Gson().toJson(stu));
This gives me the following output,
{"id":0,"name":"Guna","age":25} //Here I want string without id, So this is wrong
So here I want String like
{"name":"Guna","age":25}
If I want to edit old Student
//While edit old student
Student stu2 = new Student();
stu2.id = 1002;
stu2.age = 25;
stu2.name = "Guna";
System.out.println(new Gson().toJson(stu2));
Now the output is
{"id":1002,"name":"Guna","age":25} //Here I want the String with Id, So this is correct
How can I make a JSON String with a field [At some point], without a field [at some point].
Any help will be highly appreciable.
Thanks.
Better is to use #expose annotation like
public class Student {
public int id;
#Expose
public String name;
#Expose
public int age;
}
And use below method to get Json string from your object
private String getJsonString(Student student) {
// Before converting to GSON check value of id
Gson gson = null;
if (student.id == 0) {
gson = new GsonBuilder()
.excludeFieldsWithoutExposeAnnotation()
.create();
} else {
gson = new Gson();
}
return gson.toJson(student);
}
It will ignore id column if that is set to 0, either it will return json string with id field.
You can explore the json tree with gson.
Try something like this :
gson.toJsonTree(stu1).getAsJsonObject().remove("id");
You can add some properties also :
gson.toJsonTree(stu2).getAsJsonObject().addProperty("id", "100");
JsonObject jsObj = (JsonObject) new Gson().toJsonTree(stu2);
jsObj.remove("age"); // remove field 'age'
jsObj.addProperty("key", "value"); // add field 'key'
System.out.println(jsObj);
You can manipulate with JsonObject
You should introduce additional field to Student class that will notice GSON about id serialization policy.
Then, you should implement custom serializer that will implement TypeAdapter. In your TypeAdapter implementation according to id serialization policy you will serialize it or not. Then you should register your TypeAdapter in GSON factory:
GsonBuilder gson = new GsonBuilder();
gson.registerTypeAdapter(Student.class, new StudentTypeAdapter());
Hope this helps.
You have two options.
Use Java's transient keyword which is to indicate that a field should not be serialized. Gson will exclude it automatically. This may not work for you as you want it conditionally.
Use #Expose annotation for the fields that you want and initialize your Gson builder as following:
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().excludeFieldsWithoutExposeAnnotation().create();
So you need to mark name and age fields using #Expose and you need to have two different Gson instances for the default one which includes all fields and the one above which excludes fields without #Expose annotation.
I have some Objects
public class MyObject {
private String name;
private String city;
public MyObject(String n, String c) {
name=n; city=c;}
public String getName() {return name;}
public String getCity() {return city;}
public void setName(String n) {name=n;}
public void setCity(String c) {city =c;}
}
And i have a custom serializer:
public class MySerializer implements JsonSerializer<MyObject> {
public JsonElement serialize(final MyObject myobj, final Type type, JsonSerializationContext context) {
JsonObject result = new JsonObject();
result.add("id", new JsonPrimitive(myobj.getName()));
return result;
}
}
Basically i just want to serilize only 1 of the 2 fields. this works great when do something like:
GsonBuilder builder = new GsonBuilder();
builder.registerTypeAdapter(MyObject.class, new MySerialize());
Gson gson = builder.create();
System.out.println(gson.toJson(new MyObject("test","something"));
however it gets a bit more complicated (and here is my question) when i have another object which is made up of "MyObject"s. How can i get the correct serializer to only serialize the one field of MyObject.
so i have another class:
public class SomeObject {
private String id;
private MyObject foo;
private MyObject bar;
...
}
and i have a custom serializer:
public JsonElement serialize(final SomeObject something, final Type type, JsonSerializationContext context) {
JsonObject result = new JsonObject();
Gson gson = new Gson();
result.add("id", new JsonPrimitive(something.getId()));
//here i need help
result.add("myobject1", new JsonPrimitive(gson.toJson(something.getFoo())));
return result;
}
I'm not sure if its best practice to create the GsonBuilder for "MyObject" inside the custom serializer for SomeObject is it?
ive tried something like:
GsonBuilder builder = new GsonBuilder();
builder.registerTypeAdapter(MyObject.class, new MySerialize());
builder.registerTypeAdapter(SomeObject.class, new SomeObjectSerializer());
Gson gson = builder.create();
System.out.println(gson.toJson(new SomeObject("id",new MyObject("test","something"),new MyObject("test2,"barrrrr"));
and i would exepct "{"id":"id","foo"{"id":"test"},"bar":{"id:"test2"}}
but that is not the case. bascially i want just the first field in a custom object whcih i have a seralizer for, but do i need to build that serializer inside another objects custom serializer? seems wrong, dunno why.
Note how you have access to the JsonSerializationContext in your custom JsonSerializer classes. You can call JsonSerializationContext#serialize(Object) and Gson will use a registered or default TypeAdapter to serialize that object and return a JsonElement which you can add to the outer JsonElement.
I want to parse JSON arrays and using gson. Firstly, I can log JSON output, server is responsing to client clearly.
Here is my JSON output:
[
{
id : '1',
title: 'sample title',
....
},
{
id : '2',
title: 'sample title',
....
},
...
]
I tried this structure for parsing. A class, which depends on single array and ArrayList for all JSONArray.
public class PostEntity {
private ArrayList<Post> postList = new ArrayList<Post>();
public List<Post> getPostList() {
return postList;
}
public void setPostList(List<Post> postList) {
this.postList = (ArrayList<Post>)postList;
}
}
Post class:
public class Post {
private String id;
private String title;
/* getters & setters */
}
When I try to use gson no error, no warning and no log:
GsonBuilder gsonb = new GsonBuilder();
Gson gson = gsonb.create();
PostEntity postEnt;
JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject(jsonOutput);
postEnt = gson.fromJson(jsonObj.toString(), PostEntity.class);
Log.d("postLog", postEnt.getPostList().get(0).getId());
What's wrong, how can I solve?
You can parse the JSONArray directly, don't need to wrap your Post class with PostEntity one more time and don't need new JSONObject().toString() either:
Gson gson = new Gson();
String jsonOutput = "Your JSON String";
Type listType = new TypeToken<List<Post>>(){}.getType();
List<Post> posts = gson.fromJson(jsonOutput, listType);
I was looking for a way to parse object arrays in a more generic way; here is my contribution:
CollectionDeserializer.java:
import java.lang.reflect.ParameterizedType;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Iterator;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.JsonArray;
import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContext;
import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializer;
import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
import com.google.gson.JsonParseException;
public class CollectionDeserializer implements JsonDeserializer<Collection<?>> {
#Override
public Collection<?> deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT,
JsonDeserializationContext context) throws JsonParseException {
Type realType = ((ParameterizedType)typeOfT).getActualTypeArguments()[0];
return parseAsArrayList(json, realType);
}
/**
* #param serializedData
* #param type
* #return
*/
#SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public <T> ArrayList<T> parseAsArrayList(JsonElement json, T type) {
ArrayList<T> newArray = new ArrayList<T>();
Gson gson = new Gson();
JsonArray array= json.getAsJsonArray();
Iterator<JsonElement> iterator = array.iterator();
while(iterator.hasNext()){
JsonElement json2 = (JsonElement)iterator.next();
T object = (T) gson.fromJson(json2, (Class<?>)type);
newArray.add(object);
}
return newArray;
}
}
JSONParsingTest.java:
public class JSONParsingTest {
List<World> worlds;
#Test
public void grantThatDeserializerWorksAndParseObjectArrays(){
String worldAsString = "{\"worlds\": [" +
"{\"name\":\"name1\",\"id\":1}," +
"{\"name\":\"name2\",\"id\":2}," +
"{\"name\":\"name3\",\"id\":3}" +
"]}";
GsonBuilder builder = new GsonBuilder();
builder.registerTypeAdapter(Collection.class, new CollectionDeserializer());
Gson gson = builder.create();
Object decoded = gson.fromJson((String)worldAsString, JSONParsingTest.class);
assertNotNull(decoded);
assertTrue(JSONParsingTest.class.isInstance(decoded));
JSONParsingTest decodedObject = (JSONParsingTest)decoded;
assertEquals(3, decodedObject.worlds.size());
assertEquals((Long)2L, decodedObject.worlds.get(1).getId());
}
}
World.java:
public class World {
private String name;
private Long id;
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public Long getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(Long id) {
this.id = id;
}
}
To conver in Object Array
Gson gson=new Gson();
ElementType [] refVar=gson.fromJson(jsonString,ElementType[].class);
To convert as post type
Gson gson=new Gson();
Post [] refVar=gson.fromJson(jsonString,Post[].class);
To read it as List of objects TypeToken can be used
List<Post> posts=(List<Post>)gson.fromJson(jsonString,
new TypeToken<List<Post>>(){}.getType());
Type listType = new TypeToken<List<Post>>() {}.getType();
List<Post> posts = new Gson().fromJson(jsonOutput.toString(), listType);
Some of the answers of this post are valid, but using TypeToken, the Gson library generates a Tree objects whit unreal types for your application.
To get it I had to read the array and convert one by one the objects inside the array. Of course this method is not the fastest and I don't recommend to use it if you have the array is too big, but it worked for me.
It is necessary to include the Json library in the project. If you are developing on Android, it is included:
/**
* Convert JSON string to a list of objects
* #param sJson String sJson to be converted
* #param tClass Class
* #return List<T> list of objects generated or null if there was an error
*/
public static <T> List<T> convertFromJsonArray(String sJson, Class<T> tClass){
try{
Gson gson = new Gson();
List<T> listObjects = new ArrayList<>();
//read each object of array with Json library
JSONArray jsonArray = new JSONArray(sJson);
for(int i=0; i<jsonArray.length(); i++){
//get the object
JSONObject jsonObject = jsonArray.getJSONObject(i);
//get string of object from Json library to convert it to real object with Gson library
listObjects.add(gson.fromJson(jsonObject.toString(), tClass));
}
//return list with all generated objects
return listObjects;
}catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
//error: return null
return null;
}
You can easily do this in Kotlin using the following code:
val fileData = "your_json_string"
val gson = GsonBuilder().create()
val packagesArray = gson.fromJson(fileData , Array<YourClass>::class.java).toList()
Basically, you only need to provide an Array of YourClass objects.
[
{
id : '1',
title: 'sample title',
....
},
{
id : '2',
title: 'sample title',
....
},
...
]
Check Easy code for this output
Gson gson=new GsonBuilder().create();
List<Post> list= Arrays.asList(gson.fromJson(yourResponse.toString,Post[].class));
in Kotlin :
val jsonArrayString = "['A','B','C']"
val gson = Gson()
val listType: Type = object : TypeToken<List<String?>?>() {}.getType()
val stringList : List<String> = gson.fromJson(
jsonArrayString,
listType)
you can get List value without using Type object.
EvalClassName[] evalClassName;
ArrayList<EvalClassName> list;
evalClassName= new Gson().fromJson(JSONArrayValue.toString(),EvalClassName[].class);
list = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList(evalClassName));
I have tested it and it is working.