[android] Converting JSONarray to ArrayList

I am downloading a JSON string and converting it to JSONArray. Im putting it into a listview and need to be able to delete from that listview later, and since JSONArray has no .remove method (Thanks Obama), I am trying to convert it to an arraylist.

here is my JSON (the array.toString()):

[{"thumb_url":"tb-1370913834.jpg","event_id":"15","count":"44","event_tagline":"this is a tagline","event_name":"5th birthday","event_end":"1370919600","event_start":"1370876400"}]

I need to get it into an array and be able to call the strings by their respective keys. Appreciate any help!

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The answer is


I have fast solution. Just create a file ArrayUtil.java

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(); 
List<Student> list = Arrays.asList(mapper.readValue(jsonString, Student[].class));

Usage:

ArrayList<Object> list = ArrayUtil.convert(jArray);

or

JSONArray jArr = ArrayUtil.convert(list);

A simpler Java 8 alternative:

JSONArray data = new JSONArray(); //create data from this -> [{"thumb_url":"tb-1370913834.jpg","event_id":...}]

List<JSONObject> list = data.stream().map(o -> (JSONObject) o).collect(Collectors.toList());

Java 8 style

   JSONArray data = jsonObject.getJSONArray("some-node");

   List<JSONObject> list = StreamSupport.stream(data.spliterator(), false)
                .map(e -> (JSONObject)e)
                .collect(Collectors.toList());

public static List<JSONObject> getJSONObjectListFromJSONArray(JSONArray array) 
        throws JSONException {
  ArrayList<JSONObject> jsonObjects = new ArrayList<>();
  for (int i = 0; 
           i < (array != null ? array.length() : 0);           
           jsonObjects.add(array.getJSONObject(i++))
       );
  return jsonObjects;
}

In Java 8,

IntStream.range(0,jsonArray.length()).mapToObj(i->jsonArray.getString(i)).collect(Collectors.toList())

Generic variant

public static <T> List<T> getList(JSONArray jsonArray) throws Exception {

    List<T> list = new ArrayList<>(jsonArray.length());

    for (int i = 0; i < jsonArray.length(); i++) {

        list.add((T)jsonArray.get(i));
    }

    return list;

}

//Usage

List<String> listKeyString = getList(dataJsonObject.getJSONArray("keyString"));

Instead of converting the JSON string to an ArrayList or even a Map, you can just create a JSONObject itself. This object has the ability to get string values by key, as you want and also to remove objects.

To create a JSONObject from a properly formatted JSON string, you simply call the appropriate constructor.

JSONObject json = new JSONObject(jsonString);

I have fast solution. Just create a file ArrayUtil.java

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;

public class ArrayUtil
{
    public static ArrayList<Object> convert(JSONArray jArr)
    {
        ArrayList<Object> list = new ArrayList<Object>();
        try {
            for (int i=0, l=jArr.length(); i<l; i++){
                 list.add(jArr.get(i));
            }
        } catch (JSONException e) {}

        return list;
    }

    public static JSONArray convert(Collection<Object> list)
    {
        return new JSONArray(list);
    }

}

Usage:

ArrayList<Object> list = ArrayUtil.convert(jArray);

or

JSONArray jArr = ArrayUtil.convert(list);

I've done it using Gson (by Google).

Add the following line to your module's build.gradle:

dependencies {
  // ...
  // Note that `compile` will be deprecated. Use `implementation` instead.
  // See https://stackoverflow.com/a/44409111 for more info
  implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.2'
}

JSON string:

private String jsonString = "[\n" +
            "        {\n" +
            "                \"id\": \"c200\",\n" +
            "                \"name\": \"Ravi Tamada\",\n" +
            "                \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n" +
            "                \"address\": \"xx-xx-xxxx,x - street, x - country\",\n" +
            "                \"gender\" : \"male\",\n" +
            "                \"phone\": {\n" +
            "                    \"mobile\": \"+91 0000000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"home\": \"00 000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"office\": \"00 000000\"\n" +
            "                }\n" +
            "        },\n" +
            "        {\n" +
            "                \"id\": \"c201\",\n" +
            "                \"name\": \"Johnny Depp\",\n" +
            "                \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n" +
            "                \"address\": \"xx-xx-xxxx,x - street, x - country\",\n" +
            "                \"gender\" : \"male\",\n" +
            "                \"phone\": {\n" +
            "                    \"mobile\": \"+91 0000000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"home\": \"00 000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"office\": \"00 000000\"\n" +
            "                }\n" +
            "        },\n" +
            "        {\n" +
            "                \"id\": \"c202\",\n" +
            "                \"name\": \"Leonardo Dicaprio\",\n" +
            "                \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n" +
            "                \"address\": \"xx-xx-xxxx,x - street, x - country\",\n" +
            "                \"gender\" : \"male\",\n" +
            "                \"phone\": {\n" +
            "                    \"mobile\": \"+91 0000000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"home\": \"00 000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"office\": \"00 000000\"\n" +
            "                }\n" +
            "        },\n" +
            "        {\n" +
            "                \"id\": \"c203\",\n" +
            "                \"name\": \"John Wayne\",\n" +
            "                \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n" +
            "                \"address\": \"xx-xx-xxxx,x - street, x - country\",\n" +
            "                \"gender\" : \"male\",\n" +
            "                \"phone\": {\n" +
            "                    \"mobile\": \"+91 0000000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"home\": \"00 000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"office\": \"00 000000\"\n" +
            "                }\n" +
            "        },\n" +
            "        {\n" +
            "                \"id\": \"c204\",\n" +
            "                \"name\": \"Angelina Jolie\",\n" +
            "                \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n" +
            "                \"address\": \"xx-xx-xxxx,x - street, x - country\",\n" +
            "                \"gender\" : \"female\",\n" +
            "                \"phone\": {\n" +
            "                    \"mobile\": \"+91 0000000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"home\": \"00 000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"office\": \"00 000000\"\n" +
            "                }\n" +
            "        },\n" +
            "        {\n" +
            "                \"id\": \"c205\",\n" +
            "                \"name\": \"Dido\",\n" +
            "                \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n" +
            "                \"address\": \"xx-xx-xxxx,x - street, x - country\",\n" +
            "                \"gender\" : \"female\",\n" +
            "                \"phone\": {\n" +
            "                    \"mobile\": \"+91 0000000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"home\": \"00 000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"office\": \"00 000000\"\n" +
            "                }\n" +
            "        },\n" +
            "        {\n" +
            "                \"id\": \"c206\",\n" +
            "                \"name\": \"Adele\",\n" +
            "                \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n" +
            "                \"address\": \"xx-xx-xxxx,x - street, x - country\",\n" +
            "                \"gender\" : \"female\",\n" +
            "                \"phone\": {\n" +
            "                    \"mobile\": \"+91 0000000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"home\": \"00 000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"office\": \"00 000000\"\n" +
            "                }\n" +
            "        },\n" +
            "        {\n" +
            "                \"id\": \"c207\",\n" +
            "                \"name\": \"Hugh Jackman\",\n" +
            "                \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n" +
            "                \"address\": \"xx-xx-xxxx,x - street, x - country\",\n" +
            "                \"gender\" : \"male\",\n" +
            "                \"phone\": {\n" +
            "                    \"mobile\": \"+91 0000000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"home\": \"00 000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"office\": \"00 000000\"\n" +
            "                }\n" +
            "        },\n" +
            "        {\n" +
            "                \"id\": \"c208\",\n" +
            "                \"name\": \"Will Smith\",\n" +
            "                \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n" +
            "                \"address\": \"xx-xx-xxxx,x - street, x - country\",\n" +
            "                \"gender\" : \"male\",\n" +
            "                \"phone\": {\n" +
            "                    \"mobile\": \"+91 0000000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"home\": \"00 000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"office\": \"00 000000\"\n" +
            "                }\n" +
            "        },\n" +
            "        {\n" +
            "                \"id\": \"c209\",\n" +
            "                \"name\": \"Clint Eastwood\",\n" +
            "                \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n" +
            "                \"address\": \"xx-xx-xxxx,x - street, x - country\",\n" +
            "                \"gender\" : \"male\",\n" +
            "                \"phone\": {\n" +
            "                    \"mobile\": \"+91 0000000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"home\": \"00 000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"office\": \"00 000000\"\n" +
            "                }\n" +
            "        },\n" +
            "        {\n" +
            "                \"id\": \"c2010\",\n" +
            "                \"name\": \"Barack Obama\",\n" +
            "                \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n" +
            "                \"address\": \"xx-xx-xxxx,x - street, x - country\",\n" +
            "                \"gender\" : \"male\",\n" +
            "                \"phone\": {\n" +
            "                    \"mobile\": \"+91 0000000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"home\": \"00 000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"office\": \"00 000000\"\n" +
            "                }\n" +
            "        },\n" +
            "        {\n" +
            "                \"id\": \"c2011\",\n" +
            "                \"name\": \"Kate Winslet\",\n" +
            "                \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n" +
            "                \"address\": \"xx-xx-xxxx,x - street, x - country\",\n" +
            "                \"gender\" : \"female\",\n" +
            "                \"phone\": {\n" +
            "                    \"mobile\": \"+91 0000000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"home\": \"00 000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"office\": \"00 000000\"\n" +
            "                }\n" +
            "        },\n" +
            "        {\n" +
            "                \"id\": \"c2012\",\n" +
            "                \"name\": \"Eminem\",\n" +
            "                \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n" +
            "                \"address\": \"xx-xx-xxxx,x - street, x - country\",\n" +
            "                \"gender\" : \"male\",\n" +
            "                \"phone\": {\n" +
            "                    \"mobile\": \"+91 0000000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"home\": \"00 000000\",\n" +
            "                    \"office\": \"00 000000\"\n" +
            "                }\n" +
            "        }\n" +
            "    ]";

ContactModel.java:

public class ContactModel {
     public String id;
     public String name;
     public String email;
}

Code for converting a JSON string to ArrayList<Model>:

Note: You have to import java.lang.reflect.Type;:

// Top of file
import java.lang.reflect.Type;

// ...

private void parseJSON() {
    Gson gson = new Gson();
    Type type = new TypeToken<List<ContactModel>>(){}.getType();
    List<ContactModel> contactList = gson.fromJson(jsonString, type);
    for (ContactModel contact : contactList){
        Log.i("Contact Details", contact.id + "-" + contact.name + "-" + contact.email);
    }
}

Hope this will help you.


 JSONArray array = new JSONArray(json);
 List<JSONObject> list = new ArrayList();
 for (int i = 0; i < array.length();list.add(array.getJSONObject(i++)));

try this way Simply loop through that, building your own array. This code assumes it's an array of strings, it shouldn't be hard to modify to suit your particular array structure.

JSONArray jsonArray = new JSONArray(jsonArrayString);
List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
for (int i=0; i<jsonArray.length(); i++) {
    list.add( jsonArray.getString(i) );

With Kotlin, you can avoid a loop by wrapping the JSONArray with a MutableList, e.g.

val artistMetadata = player.metadata.optJSONArray("artist")
val artists = MutableList<String>(artistMetadata.length()) { i -> artistMetadata.getString(i)}

Just going by the original subject of the thread:

converting jsonarray to list (used jackson jsonarray and object mapper here):

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
JSONArray array = new JSONArray();
array.put("IND");
array.put("CHN");
List<String> list = mapper.readValue(array.toString(), List.class);

ArrayList<String> listdata = new ArrayList<String>();     
JSONArray jArray = (JSONArray)jsonObject; 
if (jArray != null) { 
 listdata.addAll(jArray);
}

@simplified


if you want to extract data form JSON string array, here is my working code. change parameter as your data.


PoJo class

public class AllAppModel {
    private String appName;
    private String packageName;
    private int uid;
    private boolean isSelected;
    private boolean isSystemApp;
    private boolean isFav;
}

Extract your data using below line of code

try {
    JSONArray jsonArr = new JSONArray("Your json string array");
    List<AllAppModel> lstExtrextData = new ArrayList<>();
    for (int i = 0; i < jsonArr.length(); i++) {
        JSONObject jsonObj = jsonArr.getJSONObject(i);
        AllAppModel data = new AllAppModel();
        data.setAppName(jsonObj.getString("appName"));
        data.setPackageName(jsonObj.getString("packageName"));
        data.setUid(jsonObj.getInt("uid"));
        data.setSelected(jsonObj.getBoolean("isSelected"));
        data.setSystemApp(jsonObj.getBoolean("isSystemApp"));
        data.setFav(jsonObj.getBoolean("isFav"));
        lstExtrextData.add(data);
    }
} catch (JSONException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

it will return you List of PoJo class object.


To make it handy, use POJO.

try like this..

List<YourPojoObject> yourPojos = new ArrayList<YourPojoObject>();

JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(jsonString);
YourPojoObject yourPojo = new YourPojoObject();
yourPojo.setId(jsonObject.getString("idName"));
...
...

yourPojos.add(yourPojo);

Using Gson

    List<Student> students = new ArrayList<>();
    JSONArray jsonArray = new JSONArray(stringJsonContainArray);
    for (int i = 0; i < jsonArray.length(); i++) {
        Student student = new Gson().fromJson(jsonArray.get(i).toString(), Student.class);
        students.add(student);
    }
    return students;