Question

I am parsing an array of json elements on android. Following line generates following exception. I’ve validated the json file on some validation pages and all seems correct.
What’s wrong?

JSONObject object = new JSONObject(content);

The exception:

org.json.JSONException: Unterminated array at character 21 of {
    "info":[
       {
          "category":"Cocktail",
          "text":"Long Island Ice Tea",
          "info":"nur am 19. Juni",
          "imageUrl":"http://www.google.at/google.png",
          "thumbnailUrl":"http://www.google.at/google.png"
       },
       {
          "category":"Grill-Wochen",
          "text":"Steak vom Grill 350g",
          "info":"AB 16.09.2012",
          "imageUrl":"http://www.example.com/example.jpg",
          "thumbnailUrl":"http://www.example.com/example_thumb.jpg"
       }
    ]
 }

Answer 1

I used a JSON parser online and checked your string. It does have a syntax error.

Analyzing the JSON syntax at JSON.org we can verify that every object must start and finish with curved brackets (“{“). “Info” is an object – so it should be stated as so.
I changed your code to

{ "info":[        
     {
       "category":"Cocktail",
      "text":"Long Island Ice Tea",
      "info":"nur am 19 Juni",
      "imageUrl":"http://www.google.at/google.png",
      "thumbnailUrl":"http://www.google.at/google.png"
     },                    
     {
       "category":"Grill-Wochen",
       "text":"Steak vom Grill 350g",
       "info":"AB 16.09.2012",
       "imageUrl":"http://www.example.com/example.jpg",           
       "thumbnailUrl":"http://www.example.com/example_thumb.jpg"        
     }     
  ] 
}

and the parser was happy with it.

I hope it helps