I'm using JsonReader to parse some JSON data. It's a big array of elements of similar structure:
[
{
"type":"duel",
"discipline":"leagueoflegends",
"tournament_id":"57ee13fe140ba0cd2a8b4593",
"opponents":[
{
"participant":null,
"forfeit":false,
"number":1,
"result":1,
"score":3
},
{
"participant":null,
"forfeit":false,
"number":2,
"result":3,
"score":2
}
],
"id":"58078b2770cb49c45b8b45bf",
"status":"completed",
"number":1,
"stage_number":1,
"group_number":1,
"round_number":1,
"date":"2016-10-01T05:00:00+0300",
"timezone":"Europe/Helsinki",
"match_format":null
},
...
]
There's hundreds of similar elements in this array. I only need some data from each element and I wrote code similar to this:
public List<Match> readJsonStream(InputStream in) throws IOException {
JsonReader reader = new JsonReader(new InputStreamReader(in, "UTF-8"));
try {
return readMatchesArray(reader);
} finally {
reader.close();
}
}
public List<Match> readMatchesArray(JsonReader reader) throws IOException {
List<Match> matches = new ArrayList<>();
reader.beginArray();
while (reader.hasNext()) {
matches.add(readMatch(reader));
}
reader.endArray();
return matches;
}
public Match readMatch(JsonReader reader) throws IOException {
String status = null, date = null, time = null;
Match.Bracket bracket = null;
int id = -1, round = -1;
Match.Team team1 = null, team2 = null;
reader.beginObject();
while (reader.hasNext()) {
String name = reader.nextName();
switch (name) {
case "number":
id = reader.nextInt();
break;
case "status":
status = reader.nextString().toUpperCase();
break;
case "group_number":
if (reader.nextInt() == 1) {
bracket = WINNERS;
} else if (reader.nextInt() == 2) {
bracket = LOSERS;
}
break;
case "round_number":
round = reader.nextInt();
break;
case "date":
try {
String tempDateRaw = reader.nextString();
String[] tempDate = tempDateRaw.split("T");
String[] tempTime = tempDate[1].split(":");
date = tempDate[0];
time = tempTime[0] + ":" + tempTime[1];
} catch (IllegalStateException e) {
date = null;
time = null;
}
break;
case "opponents":
int counter = 0;
reader.beginArray();
while (reader.hasNext()) {
if (counter == 0) {
team1 = readTeam(reader);
} else {
team2 = readTeam(reader);
}
counter++;
}
reader.endArray();
break;
default:
reader.skipValue();
break;
}
}
reader.endObject();
return new Match(team1, team2, id, round, bracket, status, date, time);
}
public Match.Team readTeam(JsonReader reader) throws IOException {
String teamName = null;
int score = -1;
boolean winner = false;
reader.beginObject();
while (reader.hasNext()) {
String name = reader.nextName(); //this is where the error occurs
switch (name) {
case "participant":
if(reader.peek() != JsonToken.NULL) {
teamName = reader.nextString();
}
else {
teamName = null;
}
break;
case "score":
if(reader.peek() != JsonToken.NULL) {
score = reader.nextInt();
}
else {
score = -1;
}
break;
case "result":
if(reader.peek() != JsonToken.NULL) {
winner = reader.nextInt() == 1;
}
else {
winner = false;
}
break;
default:
reader.skipValue();
break;
}
}
reader.endObject();
return new Match.Team(teamName, score, winner);
}
However, when I'm trying to parse the opponents array I have an error in readTeam() Expected a name but was NULL and I'm very confused why is this happening.
At first I didn't know about the peek() so in readMatch() method I used try/catch, I have to change that, but it shouldn't be relevant to the problem. I couldn't find anything about this particular error, there's quite a lot topics regarding other, similar errors (Expected name is string/int/whatever) but here I can't quite find the reason why it's not working. Do you have any ideas how to fix it?