JSONObject["locationInfo"] not a string

Question

Sorry for the repeated question.I have been banging my head on this since hours. I am trying to parse json to an object of setter/getter class.

String location = request.getParameter("location");
System.out.print(location);

org.json.JSONObject json = new org.json.JSONObject(location);
/* JSONObject js = json.getJSONObject("locationInfo");
String mapLoc = js.getString("locationInfo"); */
String mapLoc = json.getString("locationInfo");  <--- receiving the error on this line

Gson gsn = new Gson();
MapObject mLocObj = gsn.fromJson(mapLoc, MapObject.class);
System.out.println(mLocObj.getLongitude());
double longitude = Double.parseDouble(mLocObj.getLongitude());
double latitude = Double.parseDouble(mLocObj.getLatitude());

Here is my json string location:

{"locationInfo":{"latitude":"19.3828815","longitude":"72.8296205"}}

This is the error log:

19: System.out.print(location);
20: 
21: org.json.JSONObject json = new org.json.JSONObject(location);
22: String mapLoc = json.getString("locationInfo");
23: 
24:     Gson gsn = new Gson();
25:     MapObject mLocObj = gsn.fromJson(mapLoc, MapObject.class);


Stacktrace:] with root cause
org.json.JSONException: JSONObject["locationInfo"] not a string.
at org.json.JSONObject.getString(JSONObject.java:639)
at org.apache.jsp.mapView_jsp._jspService(mapView_jsp.java:88)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:432)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:390)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:334)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722)
at       org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:225)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:169)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:168)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:98)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:927)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:999)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:565)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:307)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:885)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:907)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

Answer 1

In json location is another json object.

so you would use:

json.getJSONObject("locationInfo")

furthermore for latitude then:

json.getJSONObject("locationInfo").getString("latitude")

Answer 2

You need to check whether your "locationInfo" string is null:

if (json.isNull("locationInfo")){
  mapLoc = "";
} else {
  mapLoc = json.getString("locationInfo");
}

Answer 3

I think the problem is that in fact "locationInfo" is not a string but a JSONObject.

Take a look at documentation

You could try to get

org.json.JSONObject jsonlocationInfo = json.getJSONObject("locationInfo");

Answer 4

I think you have two different libraries json.org and goolge gson. By using gson you can get locationIfno string as below

JsonParser jsonParser = new JsonParser();
JsonElement jsonElement = jsonParser.parse(location);
String locationInfo =  jsonElement.getAsJsonObject().get("locationInfo").toString();

{"latitude":"19.3828815","longitude":"72.8296205"}

finally parse it

 Gson gsn = new Gson();
 MapObject mLocObj = gsn.fromJson(locationInfo , MapObject.class);