Simplest way to read json from a URL in java

Question

This might be a dumb question but what is the simplest way to read and parse JSON from URL in Java?

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Answer 1

I am not sure if this is efficient, but this is one of the possible ways:

Read json from url use url.openStream() and read contents into a string.

construct a JSON object with this string (more at json.org)

JSONObject(java.lang.String source)
      Construct a JSONObject from a source JSON text string.