Question

I have an API Output like this:

{"user" : {"status" : {"stat1" : "54", "stats2" : "87"}}}

I create a simple JSONObject from this API with:

JSONObject json = getJSONfromURL(URL);

After this I can read the data for User like this:

String user = json.getString("user");

But how do I get the Data for stat1 and stat2?

Answer 1

JSONObject provides accessors for a number of different data types, including nested JSONObjects and JSONArrays, using JSONObject.getJSONObject(String), JSONObject.getJSONArray(String).

Given your JSON, you’d need to do something like this:

JSONObject json = getJSONfromURL(URL);
JSONObject user = json.getJSONObject("user");
JSONObject status = user.getJSONObject("status");
int stat1 = status.getInt("stat1");

Note the lack of error handling here: for instance the code assumes the existence of the nested members – you should check for null – and there’s no Exception handling.