Question

I have a web service which returns a list of JSON Objects…such as below:

[
   {
      \"ItemId\":22,
      \"ItemName\":\"ASA 5505\",
      \"AssetNmbr\":\"\",
      \"EmployeeId\":\"\",
      \"Type\":\"\",
      \"Category\":\"\",
      \"PurchaseDt\":\"\",
      \"PurchaseBy\":null,
      \"IssueDt\":\"\",
      \"IssueBy\":null,
      \"Price\":\"300.00\",
      \"SerialNmbr\":\"JMX1538408E\",
      \"MacAddress\":null,
      \"LocationNm\":\"Stock\",
      \"Notes\":null
   }
]

What is the best way to convert this String to a list of Json Objects? Is there something built in to the standard Java library? I tried using Gson, but I had no good results.

Answer 1

There is inbuild class in android to handle the json parsing.

Regarding your example, the [ starts in your string so it means it is array so you have start like as below

JSONArray start_object=new JSONArray(inputString);
JSONObject jObject = start_object.getJSONObject(0);
String itemid= jObject.getString("Itemid");

///and so on