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AnZyuZya
AnZyuZya

Reputation: 201

Parse user list from Github's Json response

So I'm parsing Github user array using AsyncHttpClient library. And the result of this parsing is String object with Json response (its still a draft): 

private String getResponse()
{
    AsyncHttpClient client=new AsyncHttpClient();
    RequestParams params=new RequestParams();
    params.put("since","0");
    client.get("https://api.github.com/users", params,
            new AsyncHttpResponseHandler() {

                @Override
                public void onFailure(int arg0, Header[] arg1, byte[] arg2,
                                      Throwable arg3) {

                }

                @Override
                public void onSuccess(int arg0, Header[] arg1, byte[] arg2) {

                    try {
                        String content = new String(arg2, "UTF-8");
                        //content is json response that can be parsed.
                        response = content;
                    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e1) {
                        e1.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }
            });
    if (response.isEmpty())
        return "Users not found";
    else
        return response;
}

The question is how do I parse from this response? I mean, how do you do this when you don't know the structure of Github user api? I'm trying to solve this smth like this: 

private ArrayList<String> parseResponse (String response)
{

    try {
        JSONObject reader = new JSONObject(response);
        JSONObject nameObject = reader.getJSONObject("????"); //I don't know 
           //how that object is called since no idea about structure!
        name = nameObject.getString("name");

        userList.add(name);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return userList;
}

And how to iterate this properly to get every user?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 635

Answers (2)

joao2fast4u
joao2fast4u

Reputation: 6892

To parse the login from every user on the response, you have to iterate over the JSONArray, like this:

try {
    JSONArray readerArray = new JSONArray(result);
    for(int i=0;i<readerArray.length();i++){
        JSONObject userObject = (JSONObject) readerArray.get(i);
        String login = userObject.getString("login");
        //add login to your ArrayList here
    }
   } catch (JSONException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
   }

Where result is a String with your Json response.

Upvotes: 1

JstnPwll
JstnPwll

Reputation: 8695

Just navigate to https://api.github.com/users in your browser and take a look.

Example:

[
  {
    "login": "",
    "id": 0,
    "avatar_url": "",
    "gravatar_id": "",
    "url": "",
    "html_url": "",
    "followers_url": "",
    "following_url": "",
    "gists_url": "",
    "starred_url": "",
    "subscriptions_url": "",
    "organizations_url": "",
    "repos_url": "",
    "events_url": "",
    "received_events_url": "",
    "type": "User",
    "site_admin": false
  },
  {...}
]

You can see from the [] that the top-level element is a JSONArray. So you need to get this array, and then access the JSONObject at each index.

JSONArray users = new JSONArray(response);
for(int i=0; i<users.length(); i++){
    JSONObject user = users.getJSONObject(i);
    String login = user.getString("login");
}

Upvotes: 3

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