How to parse a dynamic JSON key in a Nested JSON result?

Use JSONObject keys() to get the key and then iterate each key to get to the dynamic value.

Roughly the code will look like:


// searchResult refers to the current element in the array "search_result" but whats searchResult?
JSONObject questionMark = searchResult.getJSONObject("question_mark");
Iterator keys = questionMark.keys();
    
while(keys.hasNext()) {
    // loop to get the dynamic key
    String currentDynamicKey = (String)keys.next();
        
    // get the value of the dynamic key
    JSONObject currentDynamicValue = questionMark.getJSONObject(currentDynamicKey);
        
        // do something here with the value...
}

Another possibility is to use Gson (Note, I use lombok here to generates getters/setters, toString, etc):

package so7304002;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import lombok.AccessLevel;
import lombok.Data;
import lombok.NoArgsConstructor;

import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName;
import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;

@NoArgsConstructor(access = AccessLevel.PRIVATE)
public final class JsonDemo {
    @Data
    private static class MyMap {
        private int count;

        @SerializedName("more_description")
        private String moreDescription;

        private int seq;
    }

    @Data
    private static class Product {
        private String product;

        private int id;

        @SerializedName("question_mark")
        private Map<String, MyMap> questionMark;
    }

    @Data
    private static class MyObject {
        private String status;

        @SerializedName("search_result")
        private List<Product> searchResult;
    }

    private static final String INPUT = ""; // your JSON

    public static void main(final String[] arg) {
        final MyObject fromJson = new Gson().fromJson(INPUT, 
            new TypeToken<MyObject>(){}.getType());
        final List<Product> searchResult = fromJson.getSearchResult();
        for (final Product p : searchResult) {
            System.out.println("product: " + p.getProduct() 
                + "\n" + p.getQuestionMark()+ "\n");
        }
    }
}

Output:

product: abc
{141=JsonDemo.MyMap(count=141, moreDescription=this is abc, seq=2), 
 8911=JsonDemo.MyMap(count=8911, moreDescription=null, seq=1)}

product: XYZ
{379=JsonDemo.MyMap(count=379, moreDescription=null, seq=5), 
 845=JsonDemo.MyMap(count=845, moreDescription=null, seq=6), 
 12383=JsonDemo.MyMap(count=12383, moreDescription=null, seq=4), 
 257258=JsonDemo.MyMap(count=257258, moreDescription=null, seq=1)}

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Java

Json

Android