Question

My server returns a JSON object via the body of an HTTP POST response, but I get the this error when my app tries to convert the string into a JSONObject:

06-02 09:05:34.380: E/JSONException_MyAppService(19913): org.json.JSONException: Value {"VALS":{"VAL1":"hello","VAL2":"hello2","VAL3":"hello3"}} of type java.lang.String cannot be converted to JSONObject

It looks like my server is returning a acceptable JSON encoded string, but it just won’t convert to a JSONObject. I even changed the content-type of the server’s response header to “application/json”. Please help me fix this, I’ve been trying all day.

EDIT- I use the following code:

try {
    ResponseHandler<String> responseHandler=new BasicResponseHandler();
    String responseBody = client.execute(post, responseHandler);
    JSONObject response=new JSONObject(responseBody);
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    Log.e("ClientProtocol_"+TAG,""+e);
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    Log.e("IO_"+TAG,""+e);
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    Log.e("JSONException_"+TAG,""+e);
}

I also tried imran khan’s suggestion:

try {
    HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
    HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
    if (entity != null) {
        String retSrc = EntityUtils.toString(entity); 
        // parsing JSON
        JSONObject result = new JSONObject(retSrc); //Convert String to JSON Object
        JSONArray tokenList = result.getJSONArray("VALS");

        JSONObject oj = tokenList.getJSONObject(0);
        String token = oj.getString("VAL1"); 
        String token1 = oj.getString("VAL2");
        String token11 = oj.getString("VAL3");  
    }
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    Log.e("ClientProtocol_"+TAG,""+e);
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    Log.e("IO_"+TAG,""+e);
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    Log.e("JSONException_"+TAG,""+e);
}

:'( :'(

Answer 1

How are you doing it? It should work with:

JSONObject object = new JSONObject (yourString);