Android JSONObject : Search function

android, android-json, json, search

Solution

You can use something like this:

String name;
JSONObject searchObject;

JSONArray array = new JSONArray(yourJsonString);

for (int i = 0; i < array.length(); i++) {
    JSONObject currObject = array.getJSONObject(i);
    name = currObject.getString("name");

    if(name == "hello")
    {
       searchObject = currObject        
    }
}

return searchObject

Problem

I am trying to search from JSON code that has been received beforehand.. I was wondering are there any efficient way to search specific object? Or should i use straight forward search like looping and if statement? I have parsing the JSON successfully, and it stored in my String variable.. The JSON contains Array of Objects.. Now i want to search for specific ObjectName and get the Whole Objects.. The JSON will be like ``` [ { "name":"blank", "date":"2014-06-05T00:44:30Z", "boolean":null, }, { "name":"hello", "date":"2013-05-04T00:43:20Z", "boolean":null, } ] ``` I want to search for name = "hello" and get the last Array returned Can anyone show me how? Thanks a lot!

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