Creating an ArrayList from a JSON Object

Question

So I have a JSON just like the picture below stored as MYJSON --

My plan is to retrieve all the object from childObject0 and store them in an ArrayList so they can be processed later. So I did-

ArrayList<String> childLists = new ArrayList<String>();
 try {
       JSONArray childArray = MYJSON.getJSONArray("childObject0");
       for (int i = 0; i<jArray.length(); i++
                 ) {
           //I lost it here! How can I append to `childList` from `childArray`?
                
            }
        } catch (JSONException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

Can't figure out how to append. Is this right approach? childObject0 is dynamic and the count changes time to time. Thanks

Answer 1

Since each object in childObject0 is json, you can store it as an ArrayList<JSONObject> . That should make the objects easier to process than as Strings.

ArrayList<JSONObject> childList = new ArrayList<JSONObject>();
try {
    JSONArray childArray = MYJSON.getJSONArray("childObject0");
    for (int i = 0; i < childArray.length(); i++) {
        childList.add(childArray.getJSONObject(i));
    }
} catch (JSONException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}