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

Posted by Prashant chaudhari
Prashant chaudhari
Courses Plus Student 24,499 Points

JSONObject can't converted into String

I don't get the point what is wrong I got the error "JavaTester.java:98: error: incompatible types: JSONObject cannot be converted to String JSONObject jsonData = new JSONObject(jsonData); "

JSONChallenge.java 
// A JSONObject variable named 'jsonData'
// was loaded from the data.json file.
JSONObject jsonData = new JSONObject(jsonData);
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
        }
    ]
}

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,414 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,414 Points

The challenge says jsonData is already created so you don't need to create a new one:

JSONObject jsonData = new JSONObject(jsonData);
// Error is cause by this -----------^^^^^^^^
// jsonData is not a String, and can't match with any other constructors