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Posted by Vamsi Pavan Mahesh Gunturu
Vamsi Pavan Mahesh Gunturu
4,541 Points

How to convert a String into JSON String

I am calling an Online API which returns data in the JSON format, Since I am HTTPUrlConnection, InputStreamReader, I get a stringbuffer which has all the JSON in the form of string. Is there a library to convert this to JSON format, so I can easily access the nested structures

2 Answers

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,415 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,415 Points

org.json (included as standard in Android): https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-java Jackson: https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson

Daniel Santos
Daniel Santos
34,969 Points
Daniel Santos
Daniel Santos
34,969 Points

Hi,

I know that I am very late responding to this question, but this is for future reference.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5245840/how-to-convert-string-to-jsonobject-in-java

I believe this a very easy way to do it. You can look at the JSONObject's documentation for further instruction.

http://www.json.org/javadoc/org/json/JSONObject.html

-Dan