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

Freddie Teague
Freddie Teague
13,808 Points
Posted by Freddie Teague
Freddie Teague
13,808 Points

Variables for JSONObject

I am having a little trouble with this challenge. Using the example from the video as we have been building the weather app brought me to where I am now.

I am curious as to what I am doing wrong to cause a compile error.

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

Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
40,533 Points
Dan Johnson
Dan Johnson
40,533 Points

You only need to deal with setting the strings to the appropriate data (like you have done), you don't need to define a method.

In the context of this quiz, CurrentDetails does not exist and jsonData is already a JSONObject.