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Android Build a Weather App Working with JSON Setting CurrentWeather from JSON

Posted by Sharina V Jones
Sharina V Jones
Courses Plus Student 1,847 Points

Parsing AccuWeather Data

Just wanted to post the way I parsed data from the AccuWeather Current Conditions API.

Here's the URL: "http://dataservice.accuweather.com/currentconditions/v1/{locationKey}?apikey={API}"

I got my location key by using the main AccuWeather site to search for my weather info. Here's the URL I used with my info redacted. https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/{yourCity}/{yourZipCode}/weather-forecast/{locationKeyAppearsHereAfterSearch}

Here's the current format of the JSON data

[
  {
    "LocalObservationDateTime": "2022-03-23T07:39:00-04:00",
    "EpochTime": 1648035540,
    "WeatherText": "Mostly cloudy",
    "WeatherIcon": 6,
    "HasPrecipitation": false,
    "PrecipitationType": null,
    "IsDayTime": true,
    "Temperature": {
      "Metric": {
        "Value": 11.1,
        "Unit": "C",
        "UnitType": 17
      },
      "Imperial": {
        "Value": 52,
        "Unit": "F",
        "UnitType": 18
      }
    },
  }
]

Here is the URL for my API call.

String forcastURL = "http://dataservice.accuweather.com/currentconditions/v1/"
            + locationKey + "?apikey=" + apiKey

Here's my CurrentWeather function

private CurrentWeather getCurrentDetails(String jsonData) throws JSONException {
        JSONArray forecast = new JSONArray(jsonData);
        JSONObject forcastData = forecast.getJSONObject(0);

        String localTime = forcastData.getString("LocalObservationDateTime");
        String weatherText = forcastData.getString("WeatherText");
        Log.i(TAG, "From JSON: " + localTime);

        CurrentWeather currentWeather = new CurrentWeather();
        currentWeather.setLocalTime(localTime);
        currentWeather.setEpochTime(forcastData.getInt("EpochTime"));
        currentWeather.setHasPrecipitation(forcastData.getBoolean("HasPrecipitation"));
        currentWeather.setPrecipType(forcastData.getString("PrecipitationType"));
        currentWeather.setDayTime(forcastData.getBoolean("IsDayTime"));
        currentWeather.setTempValue(forcastData.getJSONObject("Temperature")
            .getJSONObject("Imperial")
            .getDouble("Value"));
        currentWeather.setTempUnit(forcastData.getJSONObject("Temperature")
            .getJSONObject("Imperial")
            .getString("Unit"));
        currentWeather.setLocationLabel("City, State");

        return currentWeather;
    }

Hope this helps!