Question

I’m writing an Android app where I’m trying to get the #text string from a JSON that looks like this

{
"recenttracks": {
  "track": {
    "artist": {
      "#text": "Jeremy Fisher",
      "mbid": "7be30286-3510-4bc4-a587-51d9ad7c2b47"
 ...

But because of the hash tag I get nothing in return:

Error parsing data org.json.JSONException: No value for 

Replacing #text with mbid works fine. Code:

try{
JSONObject container = new JSONObject(readLastFMFeed);
JSONObject recenttracks = container.getJSONObject("recenttracks");   
JSONObject track = recenttracks.getJSONObject("track");   
JSONObject artist = track.getJSONObject("artist");   
String sArtist = track.getString("#text");
Toast.makeText(LoggedIn.this, sArtist, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
     }catch(JSONException e){
          Log.e("log_tag", " Error parsing data "+e.toString());
     }

How can I escape the hash tag?

Answer 1

You don’t need to escape it. You just made a little silly mistake. Instead of:

String sArtist = track.getString("#text");

Write:

String sArtist = artist.getString("#text");