How to convert JSONObjects to JSONArray?

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I have a response like this:

{
 "songs":{
          "2562862600":{"id":"2562862600""pos":1},
          "2562862620":{"id":"2562862620""pos":1},
          "2562862604":{"id":"2562862604""pos":1},
          "2573433638":{"id":"2573433638""pos":1}
         }
 }

Here is my code:

List<NameValuePair> param = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
JSONObject json = jParser.makeHttpRequest(url, "GET", param);

JSONObject songs= json.getJSONObject("songs");

How do I convert "songs" to a JSONArray?

Alireza Noorali · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-10 07:29:46Z

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Something like this:

JSONObject songs= json.getJSONObject("songs");
Iterator x = songs.keys();
JSONArray jsonArray = new JSONArray();

while (x.hasNext()){
    String key = (String) x.next();
    jsonArray.put(songs.get(key));
}

edited Mar 10, 2020 at 7:29

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answered Mar 27, 2014 at 12:36

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plexus · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-04 14:02:31Z

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Even shorter and with json-functions:

JSONObject songsObject = json.getJSONObject("songs");
JSONArray songsArray = songsObject.toJSONArray(songsObject.names());

answered Apr 4, 2018 at 14:02

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Tim Boland Over a year ago

tried this...but i no longer have the key names in the array...it just list them like this: 0 = "value", 1="value"....it changed the key names to 0,1,2,3

plexus Over a year ago

Yes, this is the expected outcome. If you need keys you should use a Map instead of an Array.

uzilan · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-02 13:07:02Z

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Your response should be something like this to be qualified as Json Array.

{
  "songs":[
    {"2562862600": {"id":"2562862600", "pos":1}},  
    {"2562862620": {"id":"2562862620", "pos":1}},  
    {"2562862604": {"id":"2562862604", "pos":1}},  
    {"2573433638": {"id":"2573433638", "pos":1}}
  ]
}

You can parse your response as follows

String resp = ...//String output from your source
JSONObject ob = new JSONObject(resp);  
JSONArray arr = ob.getJSONArray("songs");

for(int i=0; i<arr.length(); i++){   
  JSONObject o = arr.getJSONObject(i);  
  System.out.println(o);  
}

edited Dec 2, 2015 at 13:07

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NickUnuchek · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-05 13:09:05Z

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To deserialize the response need to use HashMap:

String resp = ...//String output from your source

Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().create();
gson.fromJson(resp,TheResponse.class);

class TheResponse{
 HashMap<String,Song> songs;
}

class Song{
  String id;
  String pos;
}

answered Oct 5, 2017 at 13:09

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Nguyễn Văn Phong · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-09 09:10:37Z

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JSONObject songs= json.getJSONObject("songs");

use JSONArray for direct conversion

JSONArray array = (JSONArray)songs.get("songs");

edited Mar 9, 2021 at 9:10

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answered Mar 9, 2021 at 6:15

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