Question

I want to parse a JSONArray that contains JSONObjects that have no names and whose (index int) positions within the array changes every week or so. I have attempted to parse a particular Object by it’s attributes, but my parser only returns the last Object in the array.

How can i stop my loop when it reaches the object i want to parse and determine the int index of the object for further parsing.

try {
        JSONArray jArray = JSONthing.getJSONfromURL("http://something.com");
        String attributeiwant = "abc";
        for (int i = 0; i < jArray.length(); i++) {
            JSONObject alpha = jArray.getJSONObject(i);
            String attributeparsed = alpha.getString("widget");
            if (attributeparsed == attributeiwant) {
                //determine int index of object, so i can parse other attributes
                //from same object          

            }
        }
        } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e("log_tag", "Error parsing data "+ e.toString());
        }

Answer 1

use String.equals for comparing Strings instead of ==

try {
        JSONArray jArray = JSONthing.getJSONfromURL("http://something.com");
        String attributeiwant = "abc";
        for (int i = 0; i < jArray.length(); i++) {
            JSONObject alpha = jArray.getJSONObject(i);
            String attributeparsed = alpha.getString("widget");
            if (attributeparsed.equals(attributeiwant)) {
                //determine int index of object, so i can parse other attributes
                //from same object          
                // Get data from JsonObject
                break;
            }
        }
        } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e("log_tag", "Error parsing data "+ e.toString());
        }