Parse JSON into a java object

Question

Hello I have the following task:

A URL that has a JSON Object:

            - Write a program to read/write URL

            - Parse data in URL using JSON to JAVA Object

            - display 3 variables to user from the object

                            - Find entity/list of object = Find object that has ‘name’

                            - Find Object that has ‘author’

                            - Find Object that has ‘item’

*Define through annotation how to define JSON into Java list and find Object that has ‘name’ in it.

I think the question is asking to parse the JSON without using any java library. So far I have developed the following code:

class JSONObject {
    HashMap map = new HashMap();
}

public class SYW {
    public static String sampleUrl = "https://api.github.com/users/mralexgray/repos";
    public static Integer index = 1;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //String sampleJSON = fetchJSON(sampleUrl);
        JSONObject json = getJSONObject("{\"login\": \"mralexgray\",\"id\": 262517,\"avatar_url\": \"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/262517?v=3\"}");
        // suppose there is a owner class
        populateJavaObject(json, Owner.class);
    }

    public static void populateJavaObject(JSONObject json, Class class1) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        Object obj = null;
        try {
            obj = class1.newInstance();
            Iterator it = json.map.keySet().iterator();
            while (it.hasNext()) {
                String key = (String)it.next();
                Object value = json.map.get(key);
                Field field = class1.getDeclaredField(key);
                field.setAccessible(true);
                if (value instanceof Integer) {
                    field.setInt(obj, (Integer)value);
                } else if (value instanceof String) {
                    field.setString(obj, (String)value);
                }
            }
        } catch (InstantiationException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (SecurityException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public static String getString(String jsonStr) {
        int i = index;
        StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
        while (jsonStr.charAt(i) != '\"') {
            jsonStr.charAt(i);
            buf.append(jsonStr.charAt(i));
            i++;
        }
        index = i;
        return buf.toString();
    }

    public static JSONObject getJSONObject (String jsonStr) {
        StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
        boolean isKey = true;
        String currentKey = "";
        Object currentValue = "";
        JSONObject json = new JSONObject();

        while (jsonStr.charAt(index) != '}') {
            if (jsonStr.charAt(index) == '\"') {
                index++;
                String token = getString(jsonStr);
                if (isKey) {
                    currentKey = token;
                } else {
                    currentValue = token;                       
                }
            } else if (Character.isDigit(jsonStr.charAt(index))) {
                Integer token = getNumber(jsonStr);
                currentValue = token;
            } else if (jsonStr.charAt(index) == '{') {
                currentValue = getJSONObject(jsonStr);
            } else if (jsonStr.charAt(index) == '[') {
                currentValue = getArray(jsonStr);
            } else if (jsonStr.charAt(index) == ':') {
                isKey = false;
            } else if (jsonStr.charAt(index) == ',' || jsonStr.charAt(index) == '}') {
                isKey = true;
                json.map.put(currentKey, currentValue);
            }
            index++;
        }

        return json;
    }

    private static ArrayList getArray(String jsonStr) {     
        ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
        while (jsonStr.charAt(index) != ']') {          
            index++;
        }
        return null;
    }

    private static Integer getNumber(String jsonStr) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        Integer num = 0;

        while (Character.isDigit(jsonStr.charAt(index))) {
            num = num * 10 + Integer.parseInt(jsonStr.charAt(index)+"");
            index++;
        }

        index--;

        return num;
    }

    public static Object parseJSON(String jsonStr) {
        Owner owner = new Owner();
        while (index <= jsonStr.length()) {
            if (jsonStr.charAt(index) == '{') {
                return getJSONObject(jsonStr);
            } else if (jsonStr.charAt(index) == '[') {
                return getArray(jsonStr);
            }
        }   

        return null;
    }

    public static String fetchJSON(String url) {
        String nextLine = "";
        try {
            URL sywURL = new URL(url);
            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(sywURL.openStream()));
            StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();          
            while ((nextLine = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                buf.append(nextLine);
            }
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return nextLine;
    }
}

What I am doing here is I have a JSONObject class which stores the JSON attributes in a map then I want to use reflection to populate any class.

For parsing the JSON, I am trying to create a mini FSM ( :) ), which parses the string using a for loop and based on the character it either parses the string or number or array token. I am using a non-generic map so that I can store object of any type.

I was thinking may be I can use template or something pattern where each node will have a recursive structure or will be a leaf node. But I am really confused how to represent that because each leaf node can have one attribute and value. How can I represent that? Besides Is this the only way to represent that or whatever I have done so far is in the right direction?

Secondly, if I parse the objects, then how can I store them? Obviously the task is to find elements based on different attribute values. So I can create probably a hashmap based on one key to serve the one such query. But then how can I create an efficient data structure that will allow me efficiently query based on different attributes?

Thirdly, I am not sure what this means "Define through annotation how to define JSON into Java list and find Object that has ‘name’ in it."

Please help.

Thanks

Parse JSON into a java object

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