Passing a org.json.simpleJSONArray to an Intent in Android as an Extra

Question

I have a problem where I receive JSONArray (from the org.json.simple.JSONArray library) from an API call and I have to pass this JSONArray to a new page/intent while trying to transfer the information in my Android App.

The receive information from the API call, I get a JSONArray , which I now convert to a string and pass it to the new Intent as an string extra.

On the other side, when I receive the string extra, I am not able to convert it back to a JSONArray . Calling new JSONArray(receivedString) causes the following error:

JSONArray cannot be applied to java.lang.String

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Anyways, I saw this: How to convert String to JSONObject in Java but it did not help me because the API forces me to use the json.simple library:

import org.json.simple.JSONArray;
import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
import org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser;
import org.json.simple.parser.ParseException;

Therefore, I can't convert my simple json to a regular JSONArray (from org.json.JSONArray since org.json.* clashes with org.json.simple ).

For example, if I use

org.json.JSONArray
org.json.JSONObect

Instead of the simple library, I get an error:

java.lang.ClassCastException: org.json.simple.JSONArray cannot be cast to org.json.JSONArray

However, if you don't need to use 'simple' here was the solution that worked found in the link above:

JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject("String");

So I can't use org.json and I need to find out a way to convert a string that contains JSONArray format to a JSONObject so I can parse it with the use of org.json.simple library .

Answer 1

If you have to use org.json.simple.* , here is the solution to convert java Strings that look like JSONArrays into parseable JSONObject s

String searchResponseJSON = API.search(term, location);

JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
JSONObject response = null;
try {
    response = (JSONObject) parser.parse(searchResponseJSON);
} catch (ParseException pe) {
    System.out.println("Error: could not parse JSON response:");
    System.out.println(searchResponseJSON);
    System.exit(1);
}");

I hope this helps anyone out there trying to convert strings into parseable JSONObjects with the use of the org.json.simple library!