Put JSONObject to JSONArray?

**DigitalMan** · 04-02-2010, 10:55 AM

I have a need to put() a JSONObject into a JSONArray. For some reason, it seems no one's attempted this in Java, so I'm having trouble finding an answer. It's possible to directly retrieve a JSONObject from a JSONArray - the inability to go the other way around seems like a major oversight. Am I overlooking something?

**masijade** · 04-02-2010, 11:39 AM

Uhm, what is wrong with this method?

Java Code:

public JSONArray put(java.lang.Object value)

or this method?

Java Code:

public JSONArray put(int index, java.lang.Object value)

**DigitalMan** · 04-02-2010, 02:36 PM

It refuses to accept a JSONObject. Even one that has just been extracted from another JSONArray, without anything done to it. Any other type of object works fine. And I can absolutely confirm that both JSONObjects and JSONArrays work as expected otherwise, as this program has been running on them for quite some time.

However, I'm working on a solution... that involves creating my own JSON parser. I'm rather sick of distributing 1.3MB worth of jars in 6 files with my under-100KB program.

**masijade** · 04-03-2010, 09:04 AM

What is the error it gives?

The only think I can think of, though, is that they have placed a check at the beginning of those methods to check whether it is a JSONObject and refuse it if it is. So, in that case, you will have to ask the developers of the library.