How to convert HttpEntity into JSON?

Question

I want to retrieve JSON from a web-service and parse it then.
Am I on the right way?

    HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(url);
    HttpResponse response;
    try {
        response = httpclient.execute(httpget);
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

        if (entity != null) {
           // parsing JSON
        }

    } catch (Exception e) {
    }

Unfortunately I don't know how to convert HttpEntity into a JSONObject.

This is my JSON (extract):

{
    "names": [
        {
            "name": "Zachary"
        },
        {
            "name": "Wyatt"
        },
        {
            "name": "William"
        }
    ]
}

Answer 1

You can convert string to json as:

try {
        response = httpclient.execute(httpget);
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

        if (entity != null) {
           String retSrc = EntityUtils.toString(entity); 
           // parsing JSON
           JSONObject result = new JSONObject(retSrc); //Convert String to JSON Object

             JSONArray tokenList = result.getJSONArray("names");
             JSONObject oj = tokenList.getJSONObject(0);
             String token = oj.getString("name"); 
        }
}
 catch (Exception e) {
  }

Answer 2

Using gson and EntityUtils:

HttpEntity responseEntity = response.getEntity();

try {
    if (responseEntity != null) {
        String responseString = EntityUtils.toString(responseEntity);
        JsonObject jsonResp = new Gson().fromJson(responseString, JsonObject.class); // String to JSONObject

    if (jsonResp.has("property"))
        System.out.println(jsonResp.get("property").toString().replace("\"", ""))); // toString returns quoted values!

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