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JSONArray allows for working with more complex JSON data than JSONObject in Android.
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So far, we've been using the JSON object
class to work with our JSON data.
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Now, we're going to look at another
important class we're working with JSON in
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Android development, JSON array.
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Recall from previous explorations that
JSON data is stored in two formats.
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A JSON object,
which is a collection of key-value pairs.
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And an ordered-list of JSON objects,
which we can think of as an array.
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JSON object takes care of regular objects.
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An JSON array is basically an array
that can hold JSON objects,
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or even other JSON arrays.
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Recall that arrays in JSON
are indicated with square brackets.
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Here in the hourly session,
we have an array called data.
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Each JSON object inside the array
is surrounded with curly braces.
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We'll access this data array in code and
then store object
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in here as an array item
using our new hour class.
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Lets go back to Android Studio.
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Let's take another look at our
new parseForecastData method.
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Our Forecast class has that array to fill,
an hourly forecast.
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Let's create a new method to fill it
following the format we used to fill
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the current weather data.
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We can write the code we want and then
autogenerate the new method declaration.
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Inside parseForecastData,
we can add our new statement here.
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We want forecast.setHourlyForecast, and
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our new method we'll
call getHourlyForecast.
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And we'll pass in jsonData as well.
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And we can use the quick
fix to generate our method.
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So inside getHourlyForecast,
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we want to start just like
we do in getCurrentDetails.
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We'll get a JSONObject.
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We'll call it forecast.
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And set new JSONObject from our jsonData.
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We want to grab the timezone, just like
we do in getCurrentDetails, as well.
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Timezone.
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It's gonna be forecast.getString.
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And the timezone was
timezone in all lower case
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And we have that unhandled
JSON exception error again.
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We can do the quick fix to add
the exception to our method signature.
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All right, now how is that
JSON data structured again?
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Let's take another look.
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Hm, it looks like we need this
hourly JSON object from the data.
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Okay, we can do that.
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Let's create a new JSON object,
we'll call it hourly.
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And then set it from the forecast
object using the getJSONObject method.
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JSONObject hourly forecast.getJSONObject.
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We just saw in the data that
key we need is called hourly,
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in all lower case, hourly.
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Now we're ready to drill down and
get our data array.
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Let's take one more look at our JSON data,
just to make sure.
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The hourly object has an array named data.
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We can use this name as the key to
get the array, just like we did for
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the hourly object.
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JSONArray, We'll call it data.
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Hourly.getJSONArray.
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And it's data.
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Now we have an array of JSONObjects,
great work!
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We still want an array of our objects,
though.
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How should we go about converting them?
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Why don't you give it a try yourself and
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then come back in the next
video to see how I tackled it.
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Here's a hint,
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you can access the length of JSONArray
object by using a method called length.
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