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getJSONArray wrong format for {"GetProdByBizResult":{"TotalCount":4,"RootResults":[{....}]}}"

I successfully get data from wcf web service in my android studio app.
I get this format for the json response.
{"GetProdByBizResult":{"TotalCount":4,"RootResults":[{"catId":1348,"catOrder":1,...
what is the parameter that has to be provide in order to convert it to JSONArray ?
JSONArray jsonArray = jsonResponse.getJSONArray("RootResults");//this doesn't work
I found a workaround by replacing my json string to "RootResults":[{"....}]}"
then
jsonResponse.getJSONArray("RootResults");
is working perfect

{
"GetProdByBizResult": {
"TotalCount": 4,
"RootResults": [
{
"catId": 1348,
"catOrder": 1
}
]
}
}
Json array "RootResults" is a part of json object "GetProdByBizResult" so we need to take "GetProdByBizResult" josn object first and then from this object you can fetch the "RootResults" json array, like
JSONObject jsonObject = jsonResponse.getJSONObject("GetProdByBizResult");
JSONArray jsonArray = jsonObject.getJSONArray("RootResults");

JSON: Treat many objects as array of object

I have a JSON Like this
{ "video":{
"video_3745":{ },
"video_3437":{ },
"video_3471":{ },
"video_4114":{ }
}
}
In which every "video_xxxx" is of the SAME type. Is there a way to treat the "video" field as an array of that type? I need to iterate over all the videos, but the API is not sending them in an array, and I don't know how to model a class to receive this JSON without having to manually specify all the field names...
does GSON or LoganSquare have anything to help me out with this?

Try something like this
JSONObject video= json.getJSONObject("video"); // json is the whole response
Iterator x = video.keys();
JSONArray jsonArray = new JSONArray();
while (x.hasNext()){
String key = (String) x.next();
jsonArray.put(video.get(key));
}

You can't treat them as an array, but with the org.json.JSONObject class you can get the list of keys and iterate over them. I believe in GSON the JsonObject.entrySet method will allow something similar.
https://developer.android.com/reference/org/json/JSONObject.html
https://google.github.io/gson/apidocs/com/google/gson/JsonObject.html

How to extract objects from json

I have a scenario where I need only 1 objects out of the entire json.
{"id":"1","first_name":"Steve","last_name":"Holt","user_type":"Teacher","user_key_area":"Math"}
In above I want to extract user_type.
How will I do?

You can use Google GSON to parse the json response and map it to the model directly . Here is the tutorial for the same TUTORIAL

Use this to extract the user_type from the json, pass the your json response in place of response variable.
JsonObject object =new JsonObject(response);
String user_type = object.getString("user_type");

You are getting this json in response you can get 1 object like this:
String value = response.getString("Key Name");

Get Response and that create JsonObject
JsonObject jsonObject =new JsonObject(res);
Create String object and pass string parameter "user_type"
String userType = jsonObject.getString("user_type");

Getting the name of JSONArray as a string android

Hi, I have a JSONObject that has multiple arrays in it. I want to get the name of each array as a string does anyone know how I can do this?
Here's how my json looks. so the value I'm trying to get out is the name of the array so B or C in this case. the purpose of this is to set the text of a header on a list view to this value.
{"Contacts": //JSONObject
{
"B"://JSONArray..
[
{"ContactName":sdfsdf,"ID":900,"Number":1368349},
{"ContactName":adsdfd,"ID":1900,"Number":136856},
{"ContactName":adglkhdofg,"ID":600,"Number":136845}
],
"C":[
{"ContactName":alkghoi,"ID":900,"Number":1368349},
{"ContactName":wetete,"ID":1900,"Number":136856},
{"ContactName":dfhtfh,"ID":600,"Number":136845}
]
.....//and so on..
}
}

You can use the JSONObject method names() to return an array of the string names in the object.

Trouble with Android JSONObject from Grails webservice

Okay I am quering data from a Grails webservice that returns JSON. The JSON when viewed with the JSONViewer app parses fine. When I take that same string and use JSONObject(string) in my Android app I get "value of String cannot be converted to JSONObject."
Here's my JSON string
[[{"class":"mygrails.TopTen","id":491,"ttAmount":14200000,"ttMlId":402,"ttRank":1,"ttWeekId":1108},{"class":"mygrails.MovieList","id":402,"mlApproved":1,"mlApprovedId":5,"mlMovieId":"GNOMEOAN","mlReleaseDate":"2011-03-08T07:41:45Z","mlTitle":"Gnomeo and Juliet","mlWeekId":1106}]]
Now the JSON is comes from the standard JSON conversion of a SQL data using render from the groovy file through the import grails.converters.JSON.
... //(call to render JSON in the groovy file)
def a
a = Table.findAll("from someTable as st where st.id=" params.id)
render a as JSON
...
So I am not sure what I doing wrong and why the JSON looks a little off to me. (still new to JSON)

In json if you see "[]" means its a json array and if you see "{}" it is an json object. Both of then can have the other nested inside then.
In your case the string the starts with json array.
So try something like the following
String str = "[[{"class":"mygrails.TopTen","id":491,"ttAmount":14200000,"ttMlId":402,"ttRank":1,"ttWeekId":1108},{"class":"mygrails.MovieList","id":402,"mlApproved":1,"mlApprovedId":5,"mlMovieId":"GNOMEOAN","mlReleaseDate":"2011-03-08T07:41:45Z","mlTitle":"Gnomeo and Juliet","mlWeekId":1106}]]";
JSONArray jsonArray = new JSONArray(str);
jsonArray = jsonArray.getJSONArray(0);
JSONObject jsonObject = jsonArray.getJSONObject(0);
String class = jsonObject.getString("class"); // class will value "mygrails.TopTen"

Try to create an JSONArray from the String instead of JSONObject. I didn't test this but that should do the trick: you have two nested arrays that contain then actual data.

Check out your JSON online with http://jsonformat.com/
http://www.freeformatter.com/json-formatter.html
JSON Viewer
http://jsonviewer.stack.hu/
Paste your text in there and you can see what you should parse: