JSONTokener

Class Overview

A JSONTokener takes a source string and extracts characters and tokens from it. It is used by the JSONObject and JSONArray constructors to parse JSON source strings.

Parses a JSON (RFC 4627) encoded string into the corresponding object. Most clients of this class will use only need the constructor and nextValue() method. Example usage:

 String json = "{" + "  \"query\": \"Pizza\", " + "  \"locations\": [ 94043, 90210 ] " + "}";
 
 JSONObject object = (JSONObject) new JSONTokener(json).nextValue();
 String query = object.getString("query");
 JSONArray locations = object.getJSONArray("locations");
 

For best interoperability and performance use JSON that complies with RFC 4627, such as that generated by JSONStringer. For legacy reasons this parser is lenient, so a successful parse does not indicate that the input string was valid JSON. All of the following syntax errors will be ignored:

• End of line comments starting with // or # and ending with a newline character.
• C-style comments starting with /* and ending with */. Such comments may not be nested.
• Strings that are unquoted or 'single quoted'.
• Hexadecimal integers prefixed with 0x or 0X.
• Octal integers prefixed with 0.
• Array elements separated by ;.
• Unnecessary array separators. These are interpreted as if null was the omitted value.
• Key-value pairs separated by = or =>.
• Key-value pairs separated by ;.

Each tokener may be used to parse a single JSON string. Instances of this class are not thread safe. Although this class is nonfinal, it was not designed for inheritance and should not be subclassed. In particular, self-use by overrideable methods is not specified. See Effective Java Item 17, "Design and Document or inheritance or else prohibit it" for further information.

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From class java.lang.Object boolean equals(Object obj) Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one. final Class<?> getClass() Returns the runtime class of an object. int hashCode() Returns a hash code value for the object. final void notify() Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on this object's monitor. final void notifyAll() Wakes up all threads that are waiting on this object's monitor. String toString() Returns a string representation of the object. final void wait(long timeout, int nanos) Causes current thread to wait until another thread invokes the notify() method or the notifyAll() method for this object, or some other thread interrupts the current thread, or a certain amount of real time has elapsed. final void wait(long timeout) Causes current thread to wait until either another thread invokes the notify() method or the notifyAll() method for this object, or a specified amount of time has elapsed. final void wait() Causes current thread to wait until another thread invokes the notify() method or the notifyAll() method for this object.