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Reputation: 1163

Android JSONObject - How can I loop through a flat JSON object to get each key and value

{
  "key1": "value1",
  "key2": "value2",
  "key3": "value3"
}

How I can get each item's key and value without knowing the key nor value beforehand?

Upvotes: 115

Views: 118480

Answers (5)

Morgan Koh
Morgan Koh

Reputation: 2465

You'll need to use an Iterator to loop through the keys to get their values.

Here's a Kotlin implementation, you will realised that the way I got the string is using optString(), which is expecting a String or a nullable value.

val keys = jsonObject.keys()
while (keys.hasNext()) {
    val key = keys.next()
    val value = targetJson.optString(key)        
}

Upvotes: 10

Roozbeh Zabihollahi
Roozbeh Zabihollahi

Reputation: 7347

Short version of Franci's answer:

for(Iterator<String> iter = json.keys();iter.hasNext();) {
    String key = iter.next();
    ...
}

Upvotes: 69

Franci Penov
Franci Penov

Reputation: 76011

Use the keys() iterator to iterate over all the properties, and call get() for each.

Iterator<String> iter = json.keys();
while (iter.hasNext()) {
    String key = iter.next();
    try {
        Object value = json.get(key);
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        // Something went wrong!
    }
}

Upvotes: 328

Mike Brant
Mike Brant

Reputation: 71422

You shold use the keys() or names() method. keys() will give you an iterator containing all the String property names in the object while names() will give you an array of all key String names.

You can get the JSONObject documentation here

http://developer.android.com/reference/org/json/JSONObject.html

Upvotes: 3

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 3063

Take a look at the JSONObject reference:

http://www.json.org/javadoc/org/json/JSONObject.html

Without actually using the object, it looks like using either getNames() or keys() which returns an Iterator is the way to go.

Upvotes: -2

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