Read JSON file from remote website
java, json
Solution
In the simplest way, you could use the library available at json.org for java (download here) and use a code similar to:
URL url = new URL("http://my.domain.com/data.json");
JSONTokener tokener = new JSONTokener(url.openStream());
JSONObject root = new JSONObject(tokener);
But of course you could use some other library that offers a bit more of flexibility like Gson or Jackson
A small sample for gson and jackson can be found here and here respectively.
For basic authentication you could use something like:
Authenticator.setDefault(new Authenticator() { protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() { return new PasswordAuthentication ("usr", "pass".toCharArray()); } });
Something related here and documentation.
Also, HTTPClient is a great library for HTTP related stuff, please check it here if you are willing to.
If you are using Maven you can add the following dependency for json.org:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.json</groupId>
<artifactId>json</artifactId>
<version>20090211</version>
</dependency>
Gson:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
<artifactId>gson</artifactId>
<version>2.2.2</version>
</dependency>
Jackson (with major version 1, but 2 is already available, check at the website):
<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-core-asl</artifactId>
<version>1.9.12</version>
</dependency>
For HTTP Client Version 4:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
<version>4.2.4</version>
</dependency>
Problem
I am making a java program and I am looking for a way to check if theres a new version available I made an account on parse.com. API: CLICK I am working entirely on java and I am a bit new so keep it simple. I have created a class with the version number and if the version is beta now i need a way to get these 2 values into a int and a boolean and do the rest of the proccessing. How do i take the values from parse.com class?