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Android Parse a JSON String With Quotes in Keys and Values

Android JSON parsing is rather straightforward until it comes to have json reserved characters in your keys/values. I have JSON coming from an HTTP socket whose response is put into a string variable. It looks like this
{"ZboAdtPw4bA":"Ben Heck"s PlayStation 4 Slim Teardown","iC4qIx72_Cc":"Ben Heck's Xbox Slim Teardown"}
See the double quotation in the first value? It even screws up on StackOverflows web page. How am I supposed to escape/prevent this from happening? If I do a:
response = response.replace("\"", "");
Then all the double quotation get replaced, not just the ones in the key/value pair. This is because its all contained in one string at the moment. I am wondering if there is an easy way to do this with android. And of course, java answers are acceptable to. Now I could do this since its just a single dimensional key/value pair easily, I may not even need JSON, but I would like to adhere to standards.

you are simply trying to ruin the basic of a JSON .
you simply add
"/"" to the java code .
other than that its not possible for the parser to differentiate between the quotations from the JSON format or the quotations in the string .

How to put a string variable in JSONObject

I have a JSONObject:
JSONObject data = new JSONObject("{\"alert\": \"The Mets scored!\", \"action\": \"com.vipulk.acuv.UPDATE_STATUS\",\"ph\": ph }");
I have a string defined as:
String ph="this is String";
Now when i receive this JSONObject on receiver side I have the value of "ph" as "ph". I want the value of original String ph. How to do it. Can JSONObject send extra strings with another method.
Pardon my limited knowledge about JSON, as I am using it just once so I am avoiding going deep. I have everything done except putting this string variable in JSONObject.
NOTE: I am working with PARSE push notifications and I've to send this object in a push notification (that i am able to do).

If you want to modify your JSONObject, you can use .put method (http://json.org/javadoc/org/json/JSONObject.html#put%28java.lang.String,%20java.lang.Object%29):
data.put("ph", ph);

Adding link to json object in android

JSONArray albumarray=new JSONArray();
JSONObject imgobj=new JSONObject();
imgobj.put("thumb", filepath.get(i));
imgobj.put("main", filepath.get(i));
albumarray.put(imgobj);
JSONObject albumjson=new JSONObject();
albumjson.put(albumname,albumarray);
When I convert albumjson to string using
albumjson.toString()
I am getting output as below.
{\"test2\":\"[{\\\"thumb\\\":\\\"http:\\\\\\/\\\\\\/dev.mysite.in\\\\\\/mysite\\\\\\/sites\\\\\\/default\\\\\\/files\\\\\\/512da541b31fe.jpg\\\",\\\"main\\\":\\\"http:\\\\\\/\\\\\\/dev.mysite.in\\\\\\/mysite\\\\\\/sites\\\\\\/default\\\\\\/files\\\\\\/512da541b31fe.jpg\\\"}]\"}
the correct format i need is
{"test2":[{"thumb":"http://dev.mysite.in/mysite/sites/default/files/512d9bdced1f2.jpg","main":"http://dev.mysite.in/mysite/sites/default/files/512d9bdced1f2.jpg"},{"thumb":"http://dev.mysite.in/mysite/sites/default/files/512d9be134cb8.jpg","main":"http://dev.mysite.in/mysite/sites/default/files/512d9be134cb8.jpg"}]}
How to replace additional slashes.

PLease use JSONObject.getString('keyName') method instead of toString()
EDIT:
You should first understand why those extra \\ are showing up.It is an escape character for ".Hence,it is very much required there and is a part of JSON encoding .Hence,one should always use the above method to get values of keys whenever needed.
apart from that you can try :
JSONObject.toString(4) where 4 is actually indent spaces and see whether it helps.Otherwise there's simply no other option than to replace those extra \\ like
myJsonString.replaceAll("\\","");
or
myJsonString=myJsonString.replaceAll("\\\\","");
SECOND EDIT:
The string you are sending is perfect to send to any server.You need to decode that string at the server end to JSON and then utilise it.
If you are using .NET you can see this. Or if you are on some other platform you need to find out how to decode to JSON on that platform.

There are two things going on here:
Your tools are confusing you. When it shows the output:
"{\"test2\":\"[{\\\"thumb\\\":\\\"http:\\\\\\/\\\\\\/dev.lrcdn.in\\\\\\/shiaspark\\\\\\/sites\\\\\\/default\\\\\\/files\\\\\\/512da541b31fe.jpg\\\",\\\"main\\\":\\\"http:\\\\\\/\\\\\\/dev.lrcdn.in\\\\\\/shiaspark\\\\\\/sites\\\\\\/default\\\\\\/files\\\\\\/512da541b31fe.jpg\\\"}]\"}"
It is telling you that the result is a string containing:
{"test2":"[{\"thumb\":\"http:\\\/\\\/dev.lrcdn.in\\\/shiaspark\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/512da541b31fe.jpg\",\"main\":\"http:\\\/\\\/dev.lrcdn.in\\\/shiaspark\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/512da541b31fe.jpg\"}]"}
Taking that string and formatting it:
{"test2":
"[{\"thumb\":\"http:\\\/\\\/dev.lrcdn.in\\\/shiaspark\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/512da541b31fe.jpg\",\"main\":\"http:\\\/\\\/dev.lrcdn.in\\\/shiaspark\\\/sites\\\/default\\\/files\\\/512da541b31fe.jpg\"}]"
}
We can see that you've constructed a json object containing a json-encoded string, rather than a nested jsonobject. For whatever reason, your code is having the effect of:
JSONArray albumarray=new JSONArray();
JSONObject imgobj=new JSONObject();
imgobj.put("thumb", filepath.get(i));
imgobj.put("main", filepath.get(i));
albumarray.put(imgobj);
JSONObject albumjson = new JSONObject();
albumjson.put(albumname, albumarray.toString());
That sounds like a bug in your json library

Encoding Special characters in Android Json object

I am sending json object to server, My url having json object.Json object having special characters,how to encoding special characters in android, please help me.Thanks in advance.

Use UrlEncode.encode(yourstring, "UTF-8");

If I understood you, you want to send a json object using the url itself (that is, as a parameter). If security doesn't matter you (it will be visible), you could just encode using [Base64][1].
You should probably play with your json object to convert it to a byte[], called jsonbytes, for instance, then use Base64.encodeToString(jsonbytes, Base64.URL_SAFE) and sending this as a parameter.
Your server then should convert this Base64 encoded string into a json object, which tends to be straightforward if you're using PHP:
$jsonString = base64_decode($_GET['json']);
$json = json_decode($jsonString, TRUE);
This will give you an associative array in PHP. If you just want the json string, skip the last step.

Parsing JSON data from an XML web service in Android

I have an XML web service. I want to parse this XML and I want to store in an separate textviews. The following is an XML content, and I have finished getting it in a String variable.
{
"30_year_rate": 4.25,
"30_year_pi": 196.78,
"30_year_apr": 4.375,
"20_year_rate": 4.375,
"20_year_pi": 250.37,
"20_year_apr": 4.5,
"15_year_rate": 3.75,
"15_year_pi": 290.89,
"15_year_apr": 3.875,
"10_year_rate": 3.625,
"10_year_pi": 397.89,
"10_year_apr": 3.75,
"5_year_arm": 2.75,
"5_year_pi": 163.3,
"5_year_apr": 2.875,
"7_year_arm": 3,
"7_year_pi": 168.64,
"7_year_apr": 3.125,
"3_year_arm": 4,
"3_year_pi": 190.97,
"3_year_apr": 4.125,
"5_year_io_arm": "N/A",
"5_year_io_pi": "N/A",
"5_year_io_apr": "N/A",
"QuoteID": 1449,
"Licensed": "N"
}
How can I parse this data? I want to convert it to a JSON object and retrieve it, or any other reasonable approach.

If what you're getting back from the webservice is the string above, then you already have a JSON string. To create an object that can retrieve information from it, use something like JSONObject.
JSONObject object = new JSONObject(your_string_variable);
double thirtyYearRate = object.getDouble("30_year_rate");
String licensed = object.getString("Licensed");
etc.
You might (will) run into some issues where you try to pull a double from a JSON field that contains a string; i.e., the "N/A" fields above. You'll likely have to pull them out as strings and then try to parse doubles from them, and if the parsing throws an exception, you'll know it's a string.
Alternately, you could look into JSON binding with something like Jackson, which apparently runs on Android.

To parse JSON, you could use the built in JSONObject org.json Or Json-lib if you use an old version of android.
To parse XML, use XMLPullParser. A sample can be found here: Parsing XML Data