I have a String of Json received from a web service http get request. I would like to turn the string that I have formed into a JsonObject.
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import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.util.List;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
import com.google.gson.JsonParser;
public class RetrieveData {
public static String httpGet(String urlStr) throws IOException {
URL url = new URL(urlStr);
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
if (conn.getResponseCode() != 200) {
throw new IOException(conn.getResponseMessage());
}
// Buffer the result into a string
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
conn.getInputStream()));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line;
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line);
}
rd.close();
conn.disconnect();
return sb.toString();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
String jsonString = (httpGet("http://kinseyreporter.org/API/list/reports/?tag=male%20victim&from=2012-06-02"));
JsonObject obj = new JsonObject();
Gson gson = new Gson();
System.out.println(jsonString);
List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
gson.fromJson(jsonString, (Type) list);
String json = gson.toJson(jsonString);
System.out.println(json);
} catch (Exception E) {
}
}
}