Unable to return JSON Object, within Object in Android app

Question

So I have an Android app I am working on that makes an API call to the server and returns JSON information. Now in my android app I can parse the JSON but only up until the

Answer 1

I'm not sure which data from your JSON response, you are trying to extract. But I think this example with Google Translate API will help you out.

JSON Response:

"data": {
    "translations": [
        {
            "translatedText": "Hallo Welt",
            "detectedSourceLanguage": "en"
        }
    ]
}

If I want to get the translatedText, "Hallo Welt", I do it like this:

public String parseJSONForTranslation(String jsonString) {
    try {
        JSONObject object = (JSONObject) new JSONTokener(jsonString).nextValue();
        return object.getJSONObject("data").getJSONArray("translations").
                getJSONObject(0).getString("translatedText");
    }
    catch (JSONException e) {
        return null;
    }
}

So as you can see, if you want to further extract information by going into the next "level" of your JSON response, you use either getJSONObject or getJSONArray (depending on if it's an array or not) until you reach the "level" where the data you want to extract is at. And you only use getString when you are at that last "level". Hopefully, this can help you out.