Coverting string into json

Question

I extracted data from blogs using article extractor which returns articles in a string format. Since some pages have sub-links that go into news content I want that data to be extracted too. So, how can I access the data that is inside the sub-links? My code is this:

String news =" ";
try
{                   
    URL url;
    url = new URL("http://www.firstpost.com/tag/crime-in-india");
    InputSource is = HTMLFetcher.fetch(url).toInputSource();        
    BoilerpipeSAXInput in = new BoilerpipeSAXInput(is);
    TextDocument doc = in.getTextDocument();        
    news = ArticleExtractor.INSTANCE.getText(doc);
}

Answer 1

import net.sf.json.xml.XMLSerializer;


XMLSerializer xmlSerializer = new XMLSerializer(); 
JSON json = xmlSerializer.read( news );  

Answer 2

Check your library imports in your build path - especially in Eclipse

I had this issue with 2 separate projects and it turned out I had older version libraries of net.sf.json in the json-lib-2.4-jdk15.jar (had older versions as well)