Convert Android JSONObject/JSONArray to a standard Map/List.

JsonHelper.java

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

import java.util.*;

public class JsonHelper {
    public static Object toJSON(Object object) throws JSONException {
        if (object instanceof Map) {
            JSONObject json = new JSONObject();
            Map map = (Map) object;
            for (Object key : map.keySet()) {
                json.put(key.toString(), toJSON(map.get(key)));
            }
            return json;
        } else if (object instanceof Iterable) {
            JSONArray json = new JSONArray();
            for (Object value : ((Iterable)object)) {
                json.put(value);
            }
            return json;
        } else {
            return object;
        }
    }

    public static boolean isEmptyObject(JSONObject object) {
        return object.names() == null;
    }

    public static Map<String, Object> getMap(JSONObject object, String key) throws JSONException {
        return toMap(object.getJSONObject(key));
    }

    public static Map<String, Object> toMap(JSONObject object) throws JSONException {
        Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap();
        Iterator keys = object.keys();
        while (keys.hasNext()) {
            String key = (String) keys.next();
            map.put(key, fromJson(object.get(key)));
        }
        return map;
    }

    public static List toList(JSONArray array) throws JSONException {
        List list = new ArrayList();
        for (int i = 0; i < array.length(); i++) {
            list.add(fromJson(array.get(i)));
        }
        return list;
    }

    private static Object fromJson(Object json) throws JSONException {
        if (json == JSONObject.NULL) {
            return null;
        } else if (json instanceof JSONObject) {
            return toMap((JSONObject) json);
        } else if (json instanceof JSONArray) {
            return toList((JSONArray) json);
        } else {
            return json;
        }
    }
}

Brilliant! Thanks a ton!

Thanks for the code.
But shouldn't the line 19 be:
json.put(toJSON(value));
?

LICENSE? :)

This can just be considered public domain... I recommend using Gson instead.

Thank you very much to you. this code very useful to me

Thank you!

Thanks!

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

How to use this?

I see what you did there...

Doesn't line 59
toList((JSONArray) json);
gives ClassCastException.

As Strokine said,

Line 19 should be:
json.put(toJSON(value));

/*
  * put string into file jsonFileArr.json
 * [{"username":"Hello","email":"hello@email.com","credits"
 * :"100","twitter_username":""},
 * {"username":"Goodbye","email":"goodbye@email.com"
 * ,"credits":"0","twitter_username":""},
 * {"username":"mlsilva","email":"mlsilva@email.com"
 * ,"credits":"524","twitter_username":""},
 * {"username":"fsouza","email":"fsouza@email.com"
 * ,"credits":"1052","twitter_username":""}]
 */

public class TestaGsonLista {

public static void main(String[] args) {
Gson gson = new Gson();
 try {
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(
            "C:\\Temp\\jsonFileArr.json"));
    JsonArray jsonArray = new JsonParser().parse(br).getAsJsonArray();
    for (int i = 0; i < jsonArray.size(); i++) {
        JsonElement str = jsonArray.get(i);
        Usuario obj = gson.fromJson(str, Usuario.class);
        //use the add method from the list and returns it. Or map methods.
        System.out.println(obj);
        System.out.println(str);
        System.out.println("-------");
    }
 } catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
 }
}

Thank you
, it's very useful

Can you someone tell me how can I get this and parse this,and put it in list and show it to listView?

{"country":[[8,"Bosnia and Herzegovina","ba","BiH"]],"cities":[[8,"Bosnia and Herzegovina","ba","BiH","Sarajevo"]],"properties":[["Hotel Sokak","Bosnia and Herzegovina","ba","BiH","Sarajevo","7c6d2221353045408d8bbe8252bebd34"]]}

License?