591 Gson practice

UrlPractice.java

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.util.ArrayList;

import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.JsonArray;
import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
import com.google.gson.JsonParser;

public class UrlPractice {
	
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		try {
			URL url = new URL("http://www.recipepuppy.com/api/?q=turkey");
			URLConnection con = url.openConnection();
			BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
					con.getInputStream()));
			String response = "";
			String inputLine;
			while((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
				response+=inputLine;
				System.out.println(inputLine);
			}
			in.close();
//			System.out.println(response);
			Gson gson = new Gson();
			
			//get the outermost json object returned from api
			JsonObject jobject = (JsonObject) new JsonParser().parse(response);
			//get the json array called 'results'
			JsonArray jarray = jobject.getAsJsonArray("results");
			
			//a list to hold the recipes
			ArrayList<RecipePuppyRecipe> recipes = new ArrayList<>();
			//iterate over the json array, adding them to the list
			//there's gotta be a better way, but here's *a way*
			for(JsonElement o: jarray) {
				recipes.add(gson.fromJson(o, RecipePuppyRecipe.class));
			}
			//if you want to look at the list, this is a good breakpoint
			System.out.println("here's an example of one of the recipes: " + recipes.get(0).title);
	} catch(IOException e) {
		System.out.println("The url wasn't able to open");
		}
	}

	
	public class RecipePuppyRecipe {
		
		String title;
		String url;
		String ingredients;
		String imageSource;	
		
		public RecipePuppyRecipe(String title, String url, String ingredients, String imageSource) {
			super();
			this.title = title;
			this.url = url;
			this.ingredients = ingredients;
			this.imageSource = imageSource;
		}
		
		public String getTitle() {
			return title;
		}
		public void setTitle(String title) {
			this.title = title;
		}
		public String getUrl() {
			return url;
		}
		public void setUrl(String url) {
			this.url = url;
		}
		public String getIngredients() {
			return ingredients;
		}
		public void setIngredients(String ingredients) {
			this.ingredients = ingredients;
		}
		public String getImageSource() {
			return imageSource;
		}
		public void setImageSource(String imageSource) {
			this.imageSource = imageSource;
		}
	}
}