The JSONTokener class allows an application to break a string into tokens. It can be used by the JSONObject and JSONArray constructors to parse JSON source strings. A few important methods of JSONTokener class are back() - moves cursor one position back, more() - returns true if the token has element or else returns false, next() - returns a character next to current position and nextTo(character) - returns a string until the given character matches.
Syntax
public class JSONTokener extends java.lang.Object
Example
import java.io.*; import org.json.*; public class JSONTokenerTest { public static void main(String args[]) throws JSONException, Exception { String jsonStr = "{" + " \"Technology\": \"Java\", "+ " \"location\": [ Madhapur, Hyderabad ] " + "}"; JSONTokener jsonToken = new JSONTokener(jsonStr); jsonToken.next(); jsonToken.next(); jsonToken.next(); jsonToken.next(); char c = jsonToken.next(); jsonToken.back(); boolean b = jsonToken.more(); String s = jsonToken.nextTo('i'); System.out.println("next character: " + c); System.out.println("has more tokens: " + b); System.out.println("next to i: " + s); } }
Output
next character: T has more tokens: true next to i: Technology": "Java", "locat