How to parse local JSON file in assets?

Question

I have a JSON file in my assets folder. That file has one object with an array. The array has 150+ objects with each having three strings.

For each of these 150+ objects I want to extract each string and create a java model object with it passing the three strings. All the tutorials I'm finding on android JSON parsing are fetching the JSON from a url which I don't want to do.

Answer 1

you should use Gson library as json parser.

add this dependency in app gradle file :

implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.1'

create raw folder in res folder. then copy your json file to raw folder.(its better to use raw folder instead of assets). for example you have this json file named my_json.json

{
  "list": [
    {
      "name": "Faraz Khonsari",
      "age": 24
    },
    {
      "name": "John Snow",
      "age": 28
    },
    {
      "name": "Alex Kindman",
      "age": 29
    }
  ]
} 

then create your model class:

public class MyModel {
        @SerializedName("list")
        public ArrayList<MyObject> list;

       static public class MyObject {
            @SerializedName("name")
            public String name;
            @SerializedName("age")
            public int age;
        }
    }

then you should create a function to read your json file :

public String inputStreamToString(InputStream inputStream) {
        try {
            byte[] bytes = new byte[inputStream.available()];
            inputStream.read(bytes, 0, bytes.length);
            String json = new String(bytes);
            return json;
        } catch (IOException e) {
            return null;
        }
    }

then read your json file:

String myJson=inputStreamToString(mActivity.getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.my_json));

then convert json string to model:

MyModel myModel = new Gson().fromJson(myJson, MyModel.class);

now your Json have been converted to a model ! Congratulation!