How does OkHttp get Json string?

Question

Solution: It was a mistake on my side.

The right way is response.body().string() other than response.body.toString()

Im using Jetty servlet, the URL ishttp://172.16.10.126:8789/test/path/jsonpage, every time request this URL it will return

{"employees":[
    {"firstName":"John", "lastName":"Doe"}, 
    {"firstName":"Anna", "lastName":"Smith"},
    {"firstName":"Peter", "lastName":"Jones"}
]}

It shows up when type the url into a browser, unfortunately it shows kind of memory address other than the json string when I request with Okhttp.

TestActivity﹕ com.squareup.okhttp.internal.http.RealResponseBody@537a7f84

The Okhttp code Im using:

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

String run(String url) throws IOException {
  Request request = new Request.Builder()
      .url(url)
      .build();

  Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
  return response.body().string();
}

Can anyone helpe?

Answer 1

try {
    OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
    Request request = new Request.Builder()
        .url(urls[0])
        .build();
    Response responses = null;

    try {
        responses = client.newCall(request).execute();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    String jsonData = responses.body().string();
    JSONObject Jobject = new JSONObject(jsonData);
    JSONArray Jarray = Jobject.getJSONArray("employees");

    for (int i = 0; i < Jarray.length(); i++) {
        JSONObject object     = Jarray.getJSONObject(i);
    }
}

Example add to your columns:

JCol employees  = new employees();
colums.Setid(object.getInt("firstName"));
columnlist.add(lastName);           

Answer 2

I am also faced the same issue

use this code:

// notice string() call
String resStr = response.body().string().toString();    
JSONObject json = new JSONObject(resStr);

it definitely works

Answer 3

As I observed in my code. If once the value is fetched of body from Response, its become blank.

String str = response.body().string();  // {response:[]}

String str1  = response.body().string();  // BLANK

So I believe after fetching once the value from body, it become empty.

Suggestion : Store it in String, that can be used many time.

Answer 4

I hope you managed to obtain the json data from the json string.

Well I think this will be of help

try {
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
Request request = new Request.Builder()
    .url(urls[0])
    .build();
Response responses = null;

try {
    responses = client.newCall(request).execute();
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}   

String jsonData = responses.body().string();

JSONObject Jobject = new JSONObject(jsonData);
JSONArray Jarray = Jobject.getJSONArray("employees");

//define the strings that will temporary store the data
String fname,lname;

//get the length of the json array
int limit = Jarray.length()

//datastore array of size limit
String dataStore[] = new String[limit];

for (int i = 0; i < limit; i++) {
    JSONObject object     = Jarray.getJSONObject(i);

    fname = object.getString("firstName");
    lname = object.getString("lastName");

    Log.d("JSON DATA", fname + " ## " + lname);

    //store the data into the array
    dataStore[i] = fname + " ## " + lname;
}

//prove that the data was stored in the array      
 for (String content ; dataStore ) {
        Log.d("ARRAY CONTENT", content);
    }

Remember to use AsyncTask or SyncAdapter(IntentService), to prevent getting a NetworkOnMainThreadException

Also import the okhttp library in your build.gradle

compile 'com.squareup.okhttp:okhttp:2.4.0'