android jsonarray数组转jsonobject异常,安卓的JSONObject不能转换为JSONArray

I want to get data from php file to Android using JSON. This is my code:

....

HttpEntity e = r.getEntity();

String data = EntityUtils.toString(e);

JSONArray timeline = new JSONArray(data);

JSONObject last = timeline.getJSONObject(0);

return last;

When I debug the program there is JSONException on this line:

JSONObject last = timeline.getJSONObject(0);

Data is {"a":1,"b":2,"c":3,"d":4,"e":5} and the Exception is:

org.json.JSONException: Value {"d":4,"e":5,"b":2,"c":3,"a":1} of type org.json.JSONObject cannot be converted to JSONArray

解决方案

The exception message is quite explicit and a look at the JSON syntax diagrams should be illustrative. The JSON string that your code received is:

{"a":1,"b":2,"c":3,"d":4,"e":5}

This string represents an object, not an array. An example of an array would be this:

[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

or even this:

[{"a":1,"b":2,"c":3,"d":4,"e":5}]

Note that starting and closing brackets.

I think that you will find that the exception location is slightly misleading. I don't know if it is a result of some sort of lazy initialization or something else, but I believe that the cause is actually this line:

JSONArray timeline = new JSONArray(data);

Since the data string represents a JSON object and not an array, this operation is clearly impossible.