Added in API level 1

JSONObject

open class JSONObject
kotlin.Any
   ↳ org.json.JSONObject

A modifiable set of name/value mappings. Names are unique, non-null strings. Values may be any mix of JSONObjects, JSONArrays, Strings, Booleans, Integers, Longs, Doubles or NULL. Values may not be null, NaNs, infinities, or of any type not listed here.

This class can coerce values to another type when requested.

  • When the requested type is a boolean, strings will be coerced using a case-insensitive comparison to "true" and "false".
  • When the requested type is a double, other Number types will be coerced using doubleValue. Strings that can be coerced using Double#valueOf(String) will be.
  • When the requested type is an int, other Number types will be coerced using intValue. Strings that can be coerced using Double#valueOf(String) will be, and then cast to int.
  • When the requested type is a long, other Number types will be coerced using longValue. Strings that can be coerced using Double#valueOf(String) will be, and then cast to long. This two-step conversion is lossy for very large values. For example, the string "9223372036854775806" yields the long 9223372036854775807.
  • When the requested type is a String, other non-null values will be coerced using String#valueOf(Object). Although null cannot be coerced, the sentinel value JSONObject#NULL is coerced to the string "null".

This class can look up both mandatory and optional values:

  • Use getType() to retrieve a mandatory value. This fails with a JSONException if the requested name has no value or if the value cannot be coerced to the requested type.
  • Use optType() to retrieve an optional value. This returns a system- or user-supplied default if the requested name has no value or if the value cannot be coerced to the requested type.

Warning: this class represents null in two incompatible ways: the standard Java null reference, and the sentinel value org.json.JSONObject#NULL. In particular, calling put(name, null) removes the named entry from the object but put(name, JSONObject.NULL) stores an entry whose value is JSONObject.NULL.

Instances of this class are not thread safe. Although this class is nonfinal, it was not designed for inheritance and should not be subclassed. In particular, self-use by overrideable methods is not specified. See Effective Java, 3rd edition Item 19, "Design and Document for inheritance or else prohibit it" for further information.

Summary

Public constructors

Creates a JSONObject with no name/value mappings.

JSONObject(copyFrom: MutableMap<Any?, Any?>)

Creates a new JSONObject by copying all name/value mappings from the given map.

Creates a new JSONObject with name/value mappings from the next object in the tokener.

Creates a new JSONObject with name/value mappings from the JSON string.

JSONObject(copyFrom: JSONObject, names: Array<String!>)

Creates a new JSONObject by copying mappings for the listed names from the given object.

Public methods
open JSONObject
accumulate(name: String, value: Any?)

Appends value to the array already mapped to name.

open JSONObject
append(name: String, value: Any?)

Appends values to the array mapped to name.

open Any
get(name: String)

Returns the value mapped by name, or throws if no such mapping exists.

open Boolean

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a boolean or can be coerced to a boolean, or throws otherwise.

open Double

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a double or can be coerced to a double, or throws otherwise.

open Int
getInt(name: String)

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is an int or can be coerced to an int, or throws otherwise.

open JSONArray

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a JSONArray, or throws otherwise.

open JSONObject

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a JSONObject, or throws otherwise.

open Long
getLong(name: String)

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a long or can be coerced to a long, or throws otherwise.

open String

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists, coercing it if necessary, or throws if no such mapping exists.

open Boolean
has(name: String?)

Returns true if this object has a mapping for name.

open Boolean
isNull(name: String?)

Returns true if this object has no mapping for name or if it has a mapping whose value is NULL.

open MutableIterator<String!>

Returns an iterator of the String names in this object.

open Int

Returns the number of name/value mappings in this object.

open JSONArray?

Returns an array containing the string names in this object.

open static String

Encodes the number as a JSON string.

open Any?
opt(name: String?)

Returns the value mapped by name, or null if no such mapping exists.

open Boolean

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a boolean or can be coerced to a boolean, or false otherwise.

open Boolean
optBoolean(name: String?, fallback: Boolean)

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a boolean or can be coerced to a boolean, or fallback otherwise.

open Double
optDouble(name: String?)

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a double or can be coerced to a double, or NaN otherwise.

open Double
optDouble(name: String?, fallback: Double)

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a double or can be coerced to a double, or fallback otherwise.

open Int
optInt(name: String?)

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is an int or can be coerced to an int, or 0 otherwise.

open Int
optInt(name: String?, fallback: Int)

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is an int or can be coerced to an int, or fallback otherwise.

open JSONArray?

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a JSONArray, or null otherwise.

open JSONObject?

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a JSONObject, or null otherwise.

open Long
optLong(name: String?)

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a long or can be coerced to a long, or 0 otherwise.

open Long
optLong(name: String?, fallback: Long)

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a long or can be coerced to a long, or fallback otherwise.

open String
optString(name: String?)

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists, coercing it if necessary, or the empty string if no such mapping exists.

open String
optString(name: String?, fallback: String)

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists, coercing it if necessary, or fallback if no such mapping exists.

open JSONObject
put(name: String, value: Boolean)

Maps name to value, clobbering any existing name/value mapping with the same name.

open JSONObject
put(name: String, value: Double)

Maps name to value, clobbering any existing name/value mapping with the same name.

open JSONObject
put(name: String, value: Int)

Maps name to value, clobbering any existing name/value mapping with the same name.

open JSONObject
put(name: String, value: Long)

Maps name to value, clobbering any existing name/value mapping with the same name.

open JSONObject
put(name: String, value: Any?)

Maps name to value, clobbering any existing name/value mapping with the same name.

open JSONObject
putOpt(name: String?, value: Any?)

Equivalent to put(name, value) when both parameters are non-null; does nothing otherwise.

open static String
quote(data: String?)

Encodes data as a JSON string.

open Any?
remove(name: String?)

Removes the named mapping if it exists; does nothing otherwise.

open JSONArray?

Returns an array with the values corresponding to names.

open String

Encodes this object as a compact JSON string, such as:

{"query":"Pizza","locations":[94043,90210]}

open String
toString(indentSpaces: Int)

Encodes this object as a human readable JSON string for debugging, such as:

{
      "query": "Pizza",
      "locations": [
          94043,
          90210
      ]
  }

open static Any?
wrap(o: Any?)

Wraps the given object if necessary.

Properties
static Any

A sentinel value used to explicitly define a name with no value.

Public constructors

JSONObject

Added in API level 1
JSONObject()

Creates a JSONObject with no name/value mappings.

JSONObject

Added in API level 1
JSONObject(copyFrom: MutableMap<Any?, Any?>)

Creates a new JSONObject by copying all name/value mappings from the given map.

Parameters
copyFrom MutableMap<Any?, Any?>: a map whose keys are of type String and whose values are of supported types.
Exceptions
java.lang.NullPointerException if any of the map's keys are null.

JSONObject

Added in API level 1
JSONObject(readFrom: JSONTokener)

Creates a new JSONObject with name/value mappings from the next object in the tokener.

Parameters
readFrom JSONTokener: a tokener whose nextValue() method will yield a JSONObject.
Exceptions
org.json.JSONException if the parse fails or doesn't yield a JSONObject.

JSONObject

Added in API level 1
JSONObject(json: String)

Creates a new JSONObject with name/value mappings from the JSON string.

Parameters
json String: a JSON-encoded string containing an object.
Exceptions
org.json.JSONException if the parse fails or doesn't yield a JSONObject.

JSONObject

Added in API level 1
JSONObject(
    copyFrom: JSONObject,
    names: Array<String!>)

Creates a new JSONObject by copying mappings for the listed names from the given object. Names that aren't present in copyFrom will be skipped.

Public methods

accumulate

Added in API level 1
open fun accumulate(
    name: String,
    value: Any?
): JSONObject

Appends value to the array already mapped to name. If this object has no mapping for name, this inserts a new mapping. If the mapping exists but its value is not an array, the existing and new values are inserted in order into a new array which is itself mapped to name. In aggregate, this allows values to be added to a mapping one at a time.

Note that append(java.lang.String,java.lang.Object) provides better semantics. In particular, the mapping for name will always be a JSONArray. Using accumulate will result in either a JSONArray or a mapping whose type is the type of value depending on the number of calls to it.

Parameters
value Any?: a JSONObject, JSONArray, String, Boolean, Integer, Long, Double, NULL or null. May not be NaNs or infinities.

append

Added in API level 33
open fun append(
    name: String,
    value: Any?
): JSONObject

Appends values to the array mapped to name. A new JSONArray mapping for name will be inserted if no mapping exists. If the existing mapping for name is not a JSONArray, a JSONException will be thrown.

Exceptions
org.json.JSONException if name is null or if the mapping for name is non-null and is not a JSONArray.

get

Added in API level 1
open fun get(name: String): Any

Returns the value mapped by name, or throws if no such mapping exists.

Exceptions
org.json.JSONException if no such mapping exists.

getBoolean

Added in API level 1
open fun getBoolean(name: String): Boolean

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a boolean or can be coerced to a boolean, or throws otherwise.

Exceptions
org.json.JSONException if the mapping doesn't exist or cannot be coerced to a boolean.

getDouble

Added in API level 1
open fun getDouble(name: String): Double

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a double or can be coerced to a double, or throws otherwise.

Exceptions
org.json.JSONException if the mapping doesn't exist or cannot be coerced to a double.

getInt

Added in API level 1
open fun getInt(name: String): Int

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is an int or can be coerced to an int, or throws otherwise.

Exceptions
org.json.JSONException if the mapping doesn't exist or cannot be coerced to an int.

getJSONArray

Added in API level 1
open fun getJSONArray(name: String): JSONArray

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a JSONArray, or throws otherwise.

Exceptions
org.json.JSONException if the mapping doesn't exist or is not a JSONArray.

getJSONObject

Added in API level 1
open fun getJSONObject(name: String): JSONObject

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a JSONObject, or throws otherwise.

Exceptions
org.json.JSONException if the mapping doesn't exist or is not a JSONObject.

getLong

Added in API level 1
open fun getLong(name: String): Long

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a long or can be coerced to a long, or throws otherwise. Note that JSON represents numbers as doubles, so this is lossy; use strings to transfer numbers via JSON.

Exceptions
org.json.JSONException if the mapping doesn't exist or cannot be coerced to a long.

getString

Added in API level 1
open fun getString(name: String): String

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists, coercing it if necessary, or throws if no such mapping exists.

Exceptions
org.json.JSONException if no such mapping exists.

has

Added in API level 1
open fun has(name: String?): Boolean

Returns true if this object has a mapping for name. The mapping may be NULL.

isNull

Added in API level 1
open fun isNull(name: String?): Boolean

Returns true if this object has no mapping for name or if it has a mapping whose value is NULL.

keys

Added in API level 1
open fun keys(): MutableIterator<String!>

Returns an iterator of the String names in this object. The returned iterator supports remove, which will remove the corresponding mapping from this object. If this object is modified after the iterator is returned, the iterator's behavior is undefined. The order of the keys is undefined.

length

Added in API level 1
open fun length(): Int

Returns the number of name/value mappings in this object.

names

Added in API level 1
open fun names(): JSONArray?

Returns an array containing the string names in this object. This method returns null if this object contains no mappings.

numberToString

Added in API level 1
open static fun numberToString(number: Number): String

Encodes the number as a JSON string.

Parameters
number Number: a finite value. May not be NaNs or infinities.

opt

Added in API level 1
open fun opt(name: String?): Any?

Returns the value mapped by name, or null if no such mapping exists.

optBoolean

Added in API level 1
open fun optBoolean(name: String?): Boolean

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a boolean or can be coerced to a boolean, or false otherwise.

optBoolean

Added in API level 1
open fun optBoolean(
    name: String?,
    fallback: Boolean
): Boolean

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a boolean or can be coerced to a boolean, or fallback otherwise.

optDouble

Added in API level 1
open fun optDouble(name: String?): Double

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a double or can be coerced to a double, or NaN otherwise.

optDouble

Added in API level 1
open fun optDouble(
    name: String?,
    fallback: Double
): Double

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a double or can be coerced to a double, or fallback otherwise.

optInt

Added in API level 1
open fun optInt(name: String?): Int

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is an int or can be coerced to an int, or 0 otherwise.

optInt

Added in API level 1
open fun optInt(
    name: String?,
    fallback: Int
): Int

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is an int or can be coerced to an int, or fallback otherwise.

optJSONArray

Added in API level 1
open fun optJSONArray(name: String?): JSONArray?

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a JSONArray, or null otherwise.

optJSONObject

Added in API level 1
open fun optJSONObject(name: String?): JSONObject?

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a JSONObject, or null otherwise.

optLong

Added in API level 1
open fun optLong(name: String?): Long

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a long or can be coerced to a long, or 0 otherwise. Note that JSON represents numbers as doubles, so this is lossy; use strings to transfer numbers via JSON.

optLong

Added in API level 1
open fun optLong(
    name: String?,
    fallback: Long
): Long

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists and is a long or can be coerced to a long, or fallback otherwise. Note that JSON represents numbers as doubles, so this is lossy; use strings to transfer numbers via JSON.

optString

Added in API level 1
open fun optString(name: String?): String

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists, coercing it if necessary, or the empty string if no such mapping exists.

optString

Added in API level 1
open fun optString(
    name: String?,
    fallback: String
): String

Returns the value mapped by name if it exists, coercing it if necessary, or fallback if no such mapping exists.

put

Added in API level 1
open fun put(
    name: String,
    value: Boolean
): JSONObject

Maps name to value, clobbering any existing name/value mapping with the same name.

Return
JSONObject this object.

put

Added in API level 1
open fun put(
    name: String,
    value: Double
): JSONObject

Maps name to value, clobbering any existing name/value mapping with the same name.

Parameters
value Double: a finite value. May not be NaNs or infinities.
Return
JSONObject this object.

put

Added in API level 1
open fun put(
    name: String,
    value: Int
): JSONObject

Maps name to value, clobbering any existing name/value mapping with the same name.

Return
JSONObject this object.

put

Added in API level 1
open fun put(
    name: String,
    value: Long
): JSONObject

Maps name to value, clobbering any existing name/value mapping with the same name.

Return
JSONObject this object.

put

Added in API level 1
open fun put(
    name: String,
    value: Any?
): JSONObject

Maps name to value, clobbering any existing name/value mapping with the same name. If the value is null, any existing mapping for name is removed.

Parameters
value Any?: a JSONObject, JSONArray, String, Boolean, Integer, Long, Double, NULL, or null. May not be NaNs or infinities.
Return
JSONObject this object.

putOpt

Added in API level 1
open fun putOpt(
    name: String?,
    value: Any?
): JSONObject

Equivalent to put(name, value) when both parameters are non-null; does nothing otherwise.

quote

Added in API level 1
open static fun quote(data: String?): String

Encodes data as a JSON string. This applies quotes and any necessary character escaping.

Parameters
data String?: the string to encode. Null will be interpreted as an empty string.

remove

Added in API level 1
open fun remove(name: String?): Any?

Removes the named mapping if it exists; does nothing otherwise.

Return
Any? the value previously mapped by name, or null if there was no such mapping.

toJSONArray

Added in API level 1
open fun toJSONArray(names: JSONArray?): JSONArray?

Returns an array with the values corresponding to names. The array contains null for names that aren't mapped. This method returns null if names is either null or empty.

toString

Added in API level 1
open fun toString(): String

Encodes this object as a compact JSON string, such as:

{"query":"Pizza","locations":[94043,90210]}

Return
String a string representation of the object.

toString

Added in API level 1
open fun toString(indentSpaces: Int): String

Encodes this object as a human readable JSON string for debugging, such as:

{
      "query": "Pizza",
      "locations": [
          94043,
          90210
      ]
  }

Parameters
indentSpaces Int: the number of spaces to indent for each level of nesting.

wrap

Added in API level 19
open static fun wrap(o: Any?): Any?

Wraps the given object if necessary.

If the object is null or , returns NULL. If the object is a JSONArray or JSONObject, no wrapping is necessary. If the object is NULL, no wrapping is necessary. If the object is an array or Collection, returns an equivalent JSONArray. If the object is a Map, returns an equivalent JSONObject. If the object is a primitive wrapper type or String, returns the object. Otherwise if the object is from a java package, returns the result of toString. If wrapping fails, returns null.

Properties

NULL

Added in API level 1
static val NULL: Any

A sentinel value used to explicitly define a name with no value. Unlike null, names with this value:

This value violates the general contract of Object#equals by returning true when compared to null. Its #toString method returns "null".