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

Posted by Roshan Kashif
Roshan Kashif
2,976 Points

This is giving me a compiler error

I don't know what I did wrong!!!!

JSONChallenge.java 
// A JSONObject variable named 'jsonData'
// was loaded from the data.json file.
private CurrentDetails getCurrentDetails(String jsonData)  {
  JSONObject details = new JSONObject(jsonData);
  String name = details.getString("name");
  String publisher = details.getString("publisher");
  String language = details.getString("language");
  return CurrentDetails;
}
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

Alexander Rose
Alexander Rose
3,376 Points
Alexander Rose
Alexander Rose
3,376 Points

I don't think there's any reason to put your challenge code inside of a function. Also, you're creating a new JSONObject variable when the code challenge already provides you with one. The only lines you need to write to complete this challenge are the String variable declarations, calling getString on the JSONObject variable provided to you named jsonData.

Roshan Kashif
Roshan Kashif
2,976 Points

I still don't understand ....