Question

I have a class, written in Java, that makes a call to a PHP server for information on a series of items. This series should be returned in some sort of collection, such as in an array, a JSON encoded array, etc…

Is there a way that I could have PHP return the collection of data in some way that it could be easily parsed in Java and utilized as either an array or object? For example, if I JSON encode or serialize my PHP array, can it be easily JSON decoded or unserialized and then used as an array?

Answer 1

if your problem is because of the complicated class java has for actually parsing JSON, you may use JSON.simple library.

Here’s a snippet of how to decode JSON (taken from the wiki page):

String s="[0,{\"1\":{\"2\":{\"3\":{\"4\":[5,{\"6\":7}]}}}}]";
Object obj=JSONValue.parse(s);
JSONArray array=(JSONArray)obj;
System.out.println("======the 2nd element of array======");
System.out.println(array.get(1));
System.out.println();

JSONObject obj2=(JSONObject)array.get(1);
System.out.println("======field \"1\"==========");
System.out.println(obj2.get("1"));