How to add a String Array in a JSON object?

Question

I am trying to create this JSON object on android. I am stuck on how to add a string array in the object.

A = {
    \"class\" : \"4\" ,
    \"name\" : [\"joh         


        

Answer 1

As bhavindesai noted,

ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
list.add("john");
list.add("mat");
list.add("jason");
list.add("matthew");

JSONObject school = new JSONObject();

school.put("class","4");
school.put("name", new JSONArray(list));

is a much better and cleaner approach.

To import the right package you should write:

import org.json.simple.JSONArray;

on top of java class.

And if you are using Maven, add

 
    com.googlecode.json-simple
    json-simple
    1.1  

to pom.xml. Then, Download sources & dependencies and Reimport. I answered though I used commenting, since commenting screwed up the code indentation.