[java] Foreach with JSONArray and JSONObject

I'm using org.json.simple.JSONArray and org.json.simple.JSONObject. I know that these two classes JSONArray and JSONObject are incompatible, but still I want to do quite a natural thing - I want to for-each over JSONArray parsing at each iteration step one JSONObject (nested inside that JSONArray). I try to do it like so:

JSONArray arr = ...; // <-- got by some procedure
for(JSONObject o: arr){
    parse(o);
}

When I try to compile this code, indeed I get "incompatible types" error, even though it looks so natural. So, my question is what is the best way to iterate through JSONArray?

Seems like you can't iterate through JSONArray with a for each. You can loop through your JSONArray like this:

for (int i=0; i < arr.length(); i++) {
    arr.getJSONObject(i);
}

Source

Make sure you are using this org.json: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.json/json

if you are using Java 8 then you can use

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONObject;

JSONArray array = ...;

array.forEach(item -> {
    JSONObject obj = (JSONObject) item;
    parse(obj);
});

Just added a simple test to prove that it works:

Add the following dependency into your pom.xml file (To prove that it works, I have used the old jar which was there when I have posted this answer)

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.json</groupId>
    <artifactId>json</artifactId>
    <version>20160810</version>
</dependency>

And the simple test code snippet will be:

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONObject;

public class Test {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        JSONArray array = new JSONArray();

        JSONObject object = new JSONObject();
        object.put("key1", "value1");

        array.put(object);

        array.forEach(item -> {
            System.out.println(item.toString());
        });
    }
}

output:

{"key1":"value1"}