I can't figure out how to determine is an element that lives inside a json array is null. To check if the jsonObject itself is null, you simply use:
jsonObject.isNullObject();
But when the object is an array and I want to check if one of the elements of that array is null, this does not work:
jsonArray.get(i).get("valueThatIsNull") == null;
There is also no isNull method available on elements of an array. How do I check if values inside a jsonarray are null? It might help to know that I am passing over a null object from javascript. Maybe null does not mean the same thing in java when it is passed from javascript in json format, but I have also tried putting parentheses around the null and it still does not work.
I am posting some actual source code to help make this clearer. The jsonObject is a part of the jsonArray and the object has multiple values because it iself is an object.
JSONObject mapItem = jsonArray.getJSONObject(i);
int id = mapItem.has("id") ? mapItem.getInt("id") : -1;
DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
java.util.Date date = null;
Date sqlDate = null;
if(mapItem.has("date")) {
String dateStr = mapItem.getString("date");
if(!dateStr.equals("null")) {
date = dateFormat.parse(mapItem.getString("date").substring(0, 10)); //Convert javascript date string to java.
sqlDate = new Date(date.getTime());
}
解决方案
I guess json passes null values as strings, so you can't check null as a java element. Instead treat the null value as a string as check this way:
if(!mapItem.getString("date").equals("null")) {
//Value is not null
}
I have updated the code snippet in the original question to a working version.