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Android Build a Weather App (2015) Working with JSON Using JSONObject

Posted by Ashish Mittal
Ashish Mittal
2,302 Points

JSON parsing

pleae fix this code

JSONChallenge.java 
// A JSONObject variable named 'jsonData'
// was loaded from the data.json file.

JSONObject jsonData=new JSONObject(data.json);

 String name- jsonData.getString("name");
String publisher= jsonData.getString("publisher");
String language= jsonData.getString("language");
data.json 
{
    "name":"Treehouse Book Series",
    "publisher":"Wiley",
    "language":"English",
    "books":[
        {
            "title":"HTML5 Foundations",
            "author":"Matt West",
            "pages":384
        },
        {
            "title":"CSS3 Foundations",
            "author":"Ian Lunn",
            "pages":352
        }
    ]
}

2 Answers

Cory Madden
Cory Madden
7,120 Points
Cory Madden
Cory Madden
7,120 Points 
 String name- jsonData.getString("name");

Change - to = and get rid of your creation of the new JSONObject. That's already been done for you offscreen.

Ashish Mittal
Ashish Mittal
2,302 Points
Ashish Mittal
Ashish Mittal
2,302 Points

thnxs