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Vishnu
Vishnu

Reputation: 349

Parsing JSON data from an XML web service in Android

I have an XML web service. I want to parse this XML and I want to store in an separate textviews. The following is an XML content, and I have finished getting it in a String variable.

{
    "30_year_rate": 4.25,
    "30_year_pi": 196.78,
    "30_year_apr": 4.375,
    "20_year_rate": 4.375,
    "20_year_pi": 250.37,
    "20_year_apr": 4.5,
    "15_year_rate": 3.75,
    "15_year_pi": 290.89,
    "15_year_apr": 3.875,
    "10_year_rate": 3.625,
    "10_year_pi": 397.89,
    "10_year_apr": 3.75,
    "5_year_arm": 2.75,
    "5_year_pi": 163.3,
    "5_year_apr": 2.875,
    "7_year_arm": 3,
    "7_year_pi": 168.64,
    "7_year_apr": 3.125,
    "3_year_arm": 4,
    "3_year_pi": 190.97,
    "3_year_apr": 4.125,
    "5_year_io_arm": "N/A",
    "5_year_io_pi": "N/A",
    "5_year_io_apr": "N/A",
    "QuoteID": 1449,
    "Licensed": "N"
}

How can I parse this data? I want to convert it to a JSON object and retrieve it, or any other reasonable approach.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 552

Answers (2)

Jon O
Jon O

Reputation: 6591

If what you're getting back from the webservice is the string above, then you already have a JSON string. To create an object that can retrieve information from it, use something like JSONObject. 

JSONObject object = new JSONObject(your_string_variable);
double thirtyYearRate = object.getDouble("30_year_rate");
String licensed = object.getString("Licensed");

etc.

You might (will) run into some issues where you try to pull a double from a JSON field that contains a string; i.e., the "N/A" fields above. You'll likely have to pull them out as strings and then try to parse doubles from them, and if the parsing throws an exception, you'll know it's a string.

Alternately, you could look into JSON binding with something like Jackson, which apparently runs on Android.

Upvotes: 1

dube
dube

Reputation: 5019

To parse JSON, you could use the built in JSONObject org.json Or Json-lib if you use an old version of android.

To parse XML, use XMLPullParser. A sample can be found here: Parsing XML Data

Upvotes: 0

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