Android: pass a JSONobject between Fragments

Question

I'm working on a little Weather app which uses a ListFragment to show the weather for each day and a detail fragment with more information. I'm trying to get each detail fragment to show the corresponding weather for each listview day. Here are some snippets of code:

Parts of the ListFragment:

    public class WeatherListFragment extends ListFragment implements LocationListener{

        private final String initialURL = "https://api.forecast.io/forecast/8fc2b0556e166fa4670d4014d318152a/";
        Weather[] myWeatherArray = {};
        WeatherAdapter weatherAdapter;
        LocationManager mLocationManager;
        String currentLoc;
        JSONObject day;

        OnWeatherSelectedListener mCallback;

        // The container Activity must implement this interface so the frag can deliver messages
        public interface OnWeatherSelectedListener {
            /** Called by HeadlinesFragment when a list item is selected */
            public void onWeatherSelected(int position, String data);
        }



@Override
    public void onListItemClick(ListView l, View v, int position, long id) {

        //call back to the parent activity with the selected item

        mCallback.onWeatherSelected(position, data);
        l.setItemChecked(position, true);


    }


 try {
                    JSONObject daily = response.getJSONObject("daily");
                    JSONArray data = daily.getJSONArray("data");
                    myWeatherArray = new Weather[data.length()];
                    for (int i = 0; i < myWeatherArray.length; i++) {
                        day = data.getJSONObject(i);
                        Weather myWeatherObject = new Weather();
                        myWeatherObject.setmDate(day.getInt("time"));
                        myWeatherObject.setmTempMin(day.getInt("temperatureMin"));
                        myWeatherObject.setmTempMax(day.getInt("temperatureMax"));
                        myWeatherObject.setIcon(day.getString("icon"));
                        myWeatherArray[i] = myWeatherObject;

                    }

                } catch (JSONException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();

}

The main activity:

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity implements WeatherListFragment.OnWeatherSelectedListener {

 @Override
    public void onWeatherSelected(int position, String data) {
        // The user selected the headline of an article from the HeadlinesFragment


        WeatherDetailFragment weatherDetailFragment = (WeatherDetailFragment)getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.weather_detail_fragment);

        //One pane layout
        if(weatherDetailFragment == null) {
            WeatherDetailFragment onePaneFragment = new WeatherDetailFragment();

            Bundle args = new Bundle();
            args.putInt(WeatherDetailFragment.ARG_POSITION, position);

            onePaneFragment.setArguments(args);

            getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction()
                    .replace(R.id.container, onePaneFragment)
                    .addToBackStack(null)
                    .commit();

The detail fragment:

public class WeatherDetailFragment extends Fragment {



    final static String ARG_POSITION = "position";

    int mCurrentPosition = -1;
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.
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public void updateWeatherView(int position, String data) {

        View v = getView();
        TextView day = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.dayTextView);
        TextView date = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.dateTextView);
        TextView tempMin = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.tempMinTextView);
        TextView tempMinF = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.tempMinFTextView);
        TextView tempMax = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.tempMaxTextView);
        TextView tempMaxF = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.tempMaxFTextView);
        ImageView imageView = (ImageView) v.findViewById(R.id.imageView);
        ImageView imageView2 = (ImageView) v.findViewById(R.id.imageView2);


        mCurrentPosition = position;
    }
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}

Answer 1

Passing JSONObject can be easier if you use the Bundle object. Convert the JSONObject to a String by the JSONObject.toString() method. Then set it to the Bundle object. For example:

   Bundle args=new Bundle();
   String userProfileString=userProfileJsonObject.toString();
   args.putString("userProfileString", userProfileString);
   fragmentUserProfile.setArguments(args);

Then in the destination fragment, inside the onCreateView method you can extract the String and reconvert it to the JSONObject.

String userProfileString=getArguments().getString("userProfileString");
JSONObject jsonObject=new JSONObject(userProfileString);

Hope this helps.