Extract elements from List of Strings and assign it to a separate String

Question

I am new to Java and below is the requirement, I have a JSONArray like:

[{"candidate_id":"agent_4","cluster_ID":"To_Be_Added","count":"2","utterance":"Can I text you a confirmation code on the line ending in 1544"}, {"candidate_id":"agent_11","cluster_ID":"To_Be_Added","count":"2","utterance":"Can I text you a confirmation code on the line ending in 3544"}, {"candidate_id":"agent_16","cluster_ID":"To_Be_Added","count":"63","utterance":"Hello Janet can you confirm your phone number?"}

The requirement is to extract keys from this JSONArray one by one and assign to to a JSONObject like:

{
"candidate_id": "agent_11",
"cluster_ID":"To_Be_Added",
"count":"63",
"utterance":"Can I text you a confirmation code on the line ending in 1544"

} and the rest as well as separate

Now, as of now I converted this JSONArray to list of Strings in which i will traverse and extract it one by one:

 for(int j=0;j<s.length(); j++) {
                if(s.contains("candidate_id")){
                    final String candidate_id =exampleList.get(j);
                    logger.info("print  candidate_id={}", candidate_id);
                   
                }

but it's not extracting the required results, what can be done here?

Final Output should look like:

Recommendation :{
{candidate_id: "agent_11",
cluster_ID":"To_Be_Added",
count":"63",
"utterance":"Can I text you a confirmation code on the line ending in 1544"
},
{candidate_id: "agent_13",
cluster_ID":"To_Be_Added",
count":"45",
"utterance":"Can I text you a confirmation code on the line ending in 1544"
}}

Answer 1

I believe you have a getJSONObject() method in JSONArray

JSONArray array = new JSONArray()
JSONObject object = array.getJSONObject(0)

You can just iterate over your JSONArray and create JSONObject s

UPDATE

Add this to pom.xml

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.json</groupId>
    <artifactId>json</artifactId>
    <version>20201115</version>
</dependency>