Welcome to the Treehouse Community
Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.
Looking to learn something new?
Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.
Start your free trial
Ginger Ranslam
8,156 PointsHow to parse data in JSON format?
Here is the directions for this code challenge I'm working on: The data in the file 'data.json' has been loaded into a JSONObject named 'jsonData'. Using 'data.json' as your guide, create String variables named 'name', 'publisher', and 'language' and set them to the appropriate values from 'data.json' using the 'jsonData' object.
I am not sure where I'm going wrong and I have tried several different ways and this is as close to what I learned from the corresponding video. I'm getting a compile error with a "^" pointing to the "new" in my JSONObject.
JSONObject jsonData = new JSONObject(jsonData);
String name = jsonData.getString("name");
String publisher = jsonData.getString("publisher");
String language = jsonData.getString("language");
1 Answer
Andrew Molloy
37,259 PointsThe JSONObject has already been set up for you so you need to get rid of JSONObject jsonData = new JSONObject(jsonData);