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Posted by Milan Epps
Milan Epps
1,077 Points

Data Parsing final Challenge Task 1 of 3

I'm having trouble with question 1 of 3 in the final code challenge for Data Parsing

link: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/build-a-blog-reader-android-app/getting-data-from-the-web/parsing-data-returned-in-json-format

Bummer! Make sure you set the 'name' variable using the 'name' property from 'data.json'. PreviewRecheck work JSONChallenge.java data.json

1 String name = jsonData.getString("Treehouse Book Series"); 2 String publisher = jsonData.getString("Wiley"); 3 String language = jsonData.getString("English");

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1 Answer

Daniel Hartin
Daniel Hartin
18,106 Points

Hi Milan

I just went through the code challenge and the getString() method which i mentioned in another post is correct however you are trying to reference the 'actual' value which is incorrect.

When you reference JSON data you should reference the name of the information just like you reference a variable name to get the actual value contained within without actually knowing what that value is.

If you type the code below it should work just fine:

String publisher = jsonData.getString("publisher");
String name = jsonData.getString("name");
String language = jsonData.getString("language");

Hope this helps Daniel

Milan Epps
Milan Epps
1,077 Points

Oh!!! Thanks so much! I really appreciate your help. That one was killing my brain. Lol