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Posted by James Han
James Han
9,419 Points

Help with JSONObject/JSONArray

I have a JSONObject of:

{
"page": 1,
"total_results": 380716,
"total_pages": 19036,
"results": [
{
"vote_count": 136,
"id": 335983,
"video": false,
"vote_average": 6.4,
"title": "Venom",
"popularity": 324.891,
"poster_path": "/2uNW4WbgBXL25BAbXGLnLqX71Sw.jpg",
"original_language": "en",
"original_title": "Venom",
"genre_ids": [
27,
878,
28,
53
],
"backdrop_path": "/VuukZLgaCrho2Ar8Scl9HtV3yD.jpg",
"adult": false,
"overview": "When Eddie Brock acquires the powers of a symbiote, he will have to release his alter-ego “Venom” to save his life.",
"release_date": "2018-10-03"
},

I'm puzzled as to why I'm not getting anything from the code below:

List<Movie> movies = new ArrayList<>();
        JSONObject results = new JSONObject(jsonData);

        JSONArray array = new JSONArray(results.getJSONArray("results"));
        JSONObject test = array.getJSONObject(0);
        Log.d(TAG, test.getString("title"));

I assume I'm getting the JSONObject, then getting the JSONArray "results" and then the JSONObject at index 0, then getting the key "title".

Thanks!

1 Answer

kent1
kent1
5,437 Points

I can't test my answer right now, but I'm pretty sure you don't need to reconstruct the JSONArray returned from getJSONArray. So

JSONArray array = new JSONArray(results.getJSONArray("results"));

should just be

JSONArray array = results.getJSONArray("results");
James Han
James Han
9,419 Points

Yup, figured it out after a while. Thanks!