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JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight text-based open standard designed for human-readable data interchange. Douglas Crockford has provided a reference implementation of JSON in Java at http://json.org/ useful for JSON serialization and deserialization. Click here to download the compiled library. The following example shows serializing a JSON Array using JSONStringer.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/json_java/tests/ArrayStringer.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.json_java.tests;



import org.json.JSONException;

import org.json.JSONStringer;



public class ArrayStringer {



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws JSONException 

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) throws JSONException {

    JSONStringer stringer = new JSONStringer();

    

    String jsonStr = stringer

        .array()    //Start JSON Array

              .object()      //Start JSON Object

                .key("name").value("Sriram")

                .key("age").value("2 years")    //Add key-value pairs  

                .key("hobby").value("painting")

              .endObject()    //End JSON Object

              

              .object()

                .key("foo").value("bar")

                .key("hello").value("world")

              .endObject()

            .endArray()    //End JSON Array

            .toString();



    System.out.println(jsonStr);

  }



}

Array Stringer