Drill Down On Object Array

[Maestro Smith]

I am learning java and am hitting an API and returning data in this format

{"student":"student1","webmail":false,"result":1,"limit":1,"offset":0,"companyName":"Student Company","emails":[{"email":"[e-mail]","type":"email","status":"verified"}]}

The code I am using to produce this is

String response = content.toString();

Now my question is, I am using gson to handle json in my javafx project - how do I return this criterie only?

I want to return

System.out.println("The student name is: " + student + " the email's are: " + email + " the email address is/is not verified " + status + " .");

[Stephan van Hulst]

Welcome to CodeRanch!

Well, can't you access the content object directly? What does its class look like?

P.S. I recommend using JSON-B rather than GSON.

[Maestro Smith]

Hi Stephan thank you for the response!

I went with gson as I saw many tutorials on google for how to use it - I will have to give JSON-B a look also.

I am not clear on exactly what you are asking, what do I need to show you?

Sorry, I have only been coding with java for about 3 weeks so I am still learning a lot.

[Stephan van Hulst]

Well, you have a content variable that you turn into JSON. So can't you just access content.student, content.emails, etc.?

Did you mean that the content variable is part of a web service, and you're sending it as JSON to your client application first? Then you need to deserialize the JSON back to a Java object. You can very easily do this if you use JSON-B and your JSON classes are part of a shared library.

What framework are you using for the web service? Can you show us the class that sends the JSON to your client application?