Convert JSON response to Array format in Android

Question

I am getting response from server in JSONArray format. I am not able to retrieve the contents of array also my JSONArray has no Square brackets.

I am passing the response in php as json_encode($array) in server side

response {
 community = "worker"
 communitystr = "<null>";
 workspace = abs;
 email = "<null>";
 admin = false;
 persona = "<null>";
 userinfo = {
 info = {
 contact1 = {
 firstname = "jon";
 lastname = "Doe"
 phone = "9885678905";
 objectname = contact;
 id = 9;
 };
 event1 = {
 eventname = "party";
 description = "";
 order = 6;
 id = 4;
 objectname = events;
 };
 files = {
 filename = "sample";
 description = "";
 order = 11;
 id = 11;
 objectname = files;
 };
 };
 };
};

I checked many links and all have used JSONObject(). But same is not working for me.

How do I get each values in this JSON Response ?

• IntelliJ Amiya: Invalid JSON
• Umar Ata: your json is invalid , check response at jsonlint.com
• Anita Alvekodi: @IntelliJAmiya , It is invalid because it has no square brackets ' [ ' ?
• IntelliJ Amiya: @AnitaAlvekodi yes
• Anita Alvekodi: also there is no problem in parsing this in iOS , isn't there a way to parse it in android ?

Answer 1

You have to use : instead of =
, instead of ;

...

Watch out following format:

 {
 "Herausgeber": "Xema",
 "Nummer": "1234-5678-9012-3456",
 "Deckung": 2e+6,
 "Waehrung": "EURO",
 "Inhaber": 
 {
 "Name": "Mustermann",
 "Vorname": "Max",
 "maennlich": true,
 "Hobbys": [ "Reiten", "Golfen", "Lesen" ],
 "Alter": 42,
 "Kinder": [],
 "Partner": null
 }
 }

Your code seems like to be more JavaScript-Object like :-)

Answer 2

Your response is not valid JSON object.

You can validate the JSON via some online tool, like http://jsonlint.com/

Full specification can be found in RFC 7159 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7159.

Basically you should look how to encode the values into JSON format in correct way. For that you can refer to PHP Array to JSON Array using json_encode();