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Dana Rock
Courses Plus Student 1,777 PointsStuck in Adapting Data for Display in a List
I have been trying to 3 hours to get the answer to this question:
Some YouTube data in the file 'data.json' has been loaded into a JSONObject named 'jsonData'. Using 'data.json' as your guide, write a 'for' loop that loops through 'jsonVideos'. In each step of the loop, store the value of the 'title' property in the 'titles' array.
My code is below and it doesn't work.
Can someone help me out in this?
/*** This code is an excerpt from a class that extends ListActivity ***/
JSONArray jsonVideos = jsonData.getJSONArray("videos"); String[] titles = new String[jsonVideos.length()];
// Write for loop here! for (int i = 0; i < jsonVideos.length(); i++) { JSONObject posts = jsonVideos.getJSONObject(i); String title = posts.getString("title"); }
2 Answers
Daniel Hartin
18,106 PointsOkay you are not assigning anything into your string array titles. Secondly you have put an assignment of a variable inside your for loop which will not work as you can't create more than one String variable all with the variable name title.
You need to assign the string you get from your JSONData by using an array position. Use the following
titles[i] = posts.getString("title");
and delete the line - String title = posts.getString("title");
This line assigns the result of posts.getString into the titles array at whatever position i is at which obviously increases by 1 with each loop of your code.
Hope this helps.
Dana Rock
Courses Plus Student 1,777 PointsThank you Daniel! Your reply was what I needed!