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This code produces the screen output shown in Figure 4 .

Figure 4. Information about the second player. Second Player's Name: Joe Second Player's cards4-heart 5-heart6-club 7-diamond

The end of the program

Listing 6 signals the end of the main method and the end of the program.

Run the program

Click here to download a zip file containing a JSON data file named junk.json that can be used to experiment with this program.

I encourage you to copy the code from Listing 7 . Execute the code and confirm that you get the same results as those shown in Figure 1 through Figure 4 . Experiment with the code, making changes, and observing the results of your changes. Make certain that youcan explain why your changes behave as they do.

Complete program listing

A complete listing of the program named Code is provided in Listing 7 .

Listing 7 . The program named Code.java. /******************************************************************** Copyright: R.G.Baldwin 2016Revised: 06/01/16 Reads a json string from a file, parses, anddisplays some of its parts. Tested with Java 8, Windows 7, andjson-simple-1.1.1. ********************************************************************/import org.json.simple.JSONObject; import org.json.simple.JSONArray;import org.json.simple.JSONValue; import java.io.IOException;import java.io.FileReader; import java.util.*;class Code{ public static void main(String[]args){ //Instantiate a JSONObject object, which is a subclass of the// Java HashMap class. JSONObject jsonMap = null;try{ //Read json string from a file and parse it into a HashMap.jsonMap = (JSONObject)(JSONValue.parse(new FileReader("junk.json")));}catch(IOException ex){ ex.printStackTrace();}//end catch //Get and display the json stringSystem.out.println("json string: " + jsonMap); System.out.println();//blank line//Get the game array into an ArrayList object. JSONArray gameArrayList = (JSONArray)jsonMap.get("game");//Get and display info about the first player.JSONObject firstPlayerMap = (JSONObject)gameArrayList.get(0); System.out.println("First Player's Name: " +firstPlayerMap.get("name"));JSONArray firstPlayerCardsList = (JSONArray)firstPlayerMap.get("cards");System.out.println("First Player's cards"); Iterator<String>iterator = firstPlayerCardsList.iterator(); while (iterator.hasNext()) {System.out.println(iterator.next()); }//end while loop//Get and display info about the second player. System.out.println();JSONObject secondPlayerMap = (JSONObject)gameArrayList.get(1); System.out.println("Second Player's Name: " +secondPlayerMap.get("name"));JSONArray secondPlayerCardsList = (JSONArray)secondPlayerMap.get("cards");System.out.println("Second Player's cards"); iterator = secondPlayerCardsList.iterator();while (iterator.hasNext()) { System.out.println(iterator.next());}//end while loop }//end main}//end class Code

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  • Module name: Json0230: Decoding JSON Arrays
  • File: Json0230.htm
  • Published: 06/01/16
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