How to correctly parse Reddit API in Android

Question

So I've been trying to parse Reddits r/hot/.json API to get a list view of topic information but I cant seem to get my JSON right. I've looked everywhere and I cant seem to find a good example on how to do this for reddit. Here is what I have so far..

JSONObject response = new JSONObject(result);
        JSONObject data = response.getJSONObject("data");
        JSONArray hotTopics = data.getJSONArray("children");

        for(int i=0; i<hotTopics.length(); i++) {
            JSONObject topic = hotTopics.getJSONObject(i);

            String author = topic.getString("author");
            String imageUrl = topic.getString("thumbnail");
            String postTime = topic.getString("created_utc");
            String rScore = topic.getString("score");
            String title = topic.getString("title");

            topicdata.add(new ListData(title, author, imageUrl, postTime, rScore));
            Log.v(DEBUG_TAG,topicdata.toString());
        }

-------Edit Okay to give more details I did a HttpGet Request on "http://www.reddit.com/r/hot/.json?sort=new&count=25" When I run my code as it stands I'm getting the following JSONException

07-06 22:23:11.628 2580-2580/com.google.android.gms.redditviewr.app W/System.err﹕ org.json.JSONException: No value for author 07-06 22:23:11.632 2580-2580/com.google.android.gms.redditviewr.app W/System.err﹕ at org.json.JSONObject.get(JSONObject.java:354) 07-06 22:23:11.632 2580-2580/com.google.android.gms.redditviewr.app W/System.err﹕ at org.json.JSONObject.getString(JSONObject.java:514) 07-06 22:23:11.636 2580-2580/com.google.android.gms.redditviewr.app W/System.err﹕ at Tasks.RedditApiTask.onPostExecute(RedditApiTask.java:78) 07-06 22:23:11.636 2580-2580/com.google.android.gms.redditviewr.app W/System.err﹕ at Tasks.RedditApiTask.onPostExecute(RedditApiTask.java:22) 07

Which is pointing to the first item in my JSON parsing logic. But it makes no sense because there is indeed all of those items in the children array.

Answer 1

You have to go one more level deeper since the structure is

result
-- data
---- children
------ data
-------- author
-------- thumbnail
-------- created_utc
-------- score
-------- title

Try something like this

for (int i = 0; i < hotTopics.length(); i++) {
    JSONObject topic = hotTopics.getJSONObject(i).getJSONObject("data");

    String author = topic.getString("author");
    String imageUrl = topic.getString("thumbnail");
    String postTime = topic.getString("created_utc");
    String rScore = topic.getString("score");
    String title = topic.getString("title");

    topicdata.add(new ListData(title, author, imageUrl, postTime, rScore));
    Log.v(DEBUG_TAG, topicdata.toString());
}