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Reputation: 775

Parse JSON object with gson

I'm trying to parse JSON like:

{"response":[123123, 1231231, 123124, 124124, 111111, 12314]}

With GSON, making 

Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().create();
int[] friends = new Gson().fromJson(answer, int[].class);
System.out.print(friends[0]);

But get Error Expected BEGIN_ARRAY but was BEGIN_OBJECT at line 1 column 2

How to parse this numbers in array?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 31432

Answers (7)

Sukitha Udugamasooriya
Sukitha Udugamasooriya

Reputation: 2308

A Kotlin soulution

val myResponse = Gson().fromJson(responseStr, MyResponse::class.java)

Upvotes: 1

Brian Roach
Brian Roach

Reputation: 76918

The other option you have outside of using a wrapper class is simply to get the array from the parse tree.

Use the JsonParser to create the tree, get your array from it, then convert to int[] using Gson:

public class App 
{
    public static void main( String[] args ) throws IOException
    {
       String json = "{\"response\":[1,2,3,4,5]}";

       JsonObject jo = new JsonParser().parse(json).getAsJsonObject();
       JsonArray jsonArray = jo.getAsJsonArray("response");

       int[] myArray = new Gson().fromJson(jsonArray, int[].class);

       System.out.println(Arrays.toString(myArray));

    }
}

Note that you could also just work with the JsonArray directly and not convert it to an int[] depending on your use case.

System.out.println(jsonArray.get(0).getAsInt());

Upvotes: 8

Devrim
Devrim

Reputation: 15543

Json value has an object as response which holds an integer array. You have to define its class correctly first:

class ResponseHolder {
    private Integer[] response;
}

or 

class ResponseHolder {
    private int[] response;
}

or

class ResponseHolder {
    private String[] response;
}

Then use that class while parsing your json value to a java instance:

ResponseHolder responseHolder = gson.fromJson(answer, ResponseHolder.class);

Upvotes: 0

Elshan
Elshan

Reputation: 7693

Try this method 

String json1 = "[{\"contactName\":\"3\",\"contactNumber\":\"3\"},{\"contactName\":\"4\",\"contactNumber\":\"4\"}]";

JsonElement json = new JsonParser().parse(json1);    
JsonArray array= json.getAsJsonArray();    
Iterator iterator = array.iterator();    
List<ContactDetail> details = new ArrayList<ContactDetail>();

while(iterator.hasNext()){
    JsonElement json2 = (JsonElement)iterator.next();
    Gson gson = new Gson();
    ContactDetail contact = gson.fromJson(json2, ContactDetail.class);
    //can set some values in contact, if required 
    details.add(contact);
}

I got another form here

Upvotes: 1

Asif Bhutto
Asif Bhutto

Reputation: 3994

BEGIN_ARRAY but was BEGIN_OBJECT means in the beginning it's Object not the array. If you will see in the Json, response property is the type of object and that object further contains the array. You can Parse it with different ways Using creating your own custom model class or without creating custom model class. If you don't wan't to create your Response Model class then simply parse it

final Type typeOf = new TypeToken<Map<String, List<Integer>>>() {}.getType();
final Map<String, List<Integer>> map = new Gson().fromJson(Your_JSON_String, typeOf);

// finally get list of ints form map.
final List<Integer> listOfIntegers =map.get("response");

Upvotes: 0

Josh Feldman
Josh Feldman

Reputation: 547

You're going to want to create a model class first that GSON can bind your json to:

public class ResponseModel {

    private List<Integer> response = new ArrayList<Integer>();

    public List<Integer> getResponse() {
        return response;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "ResponseModel [response=" + response + "]";
    }
}

Then you can call

Gson gson = new Gson();
ResponseModel responseModel = gson.fromJson("{\"response\":[123123, 1231231, 123124, 124124, 111111, 12314]}",
                                            ResponseModel.class);
List <Integer> responses = responseModel.getResponse();
// ... do something with the int list

Upvotes: 14

michal.luszczuk
michal.luszczuk

Reputation: 2903

Or use org.json included in Android:

JSONObject jsonData = new JSONObject(answer);
JSONArray jsonItems = jsonData.getJSONArray("response");

Upvotes: -2

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