I suppose you're getting this JSON from a server or a file, and you want to create a JSONArray object out of it.

String strJSON = ""; // your string goes here
JSONArray jArray = (JSONArray) new JSONTokener(strJSON).nextValue();
// once you get the array, you may check items like
JSONOBject jObject = jArray.getJSONObject(0);

Hope this helps :)

Here is your json:

{
    "syncresponse": {
       "synckey": "2011-09-30 14:52:00",
        "createdtrs": [

        ],
        "modtrs": [

        ],
        "deletedtrs": [
          {
           "companyid": "UTB17",
           "username": "DA",
           "date": "2011-09-26",
           "reportid": "31341"
      }
       ]
   }
}

and it's parsing:

JSONObject object = new JSONObject(result);
String syncresponse = object.getString("syncresponse");
JSONObject object2 = new JSONObject(syncresponse);
String synckey = object2.getString("synckey");
JSONArray jArray1 = object2.getJSONArray("createdtrs");
JSONArray jArray2 = object2.getJSONArray("modtrs");
JSONArray jArray3 = object2.getJSONArray("deletedtrs");
for(int i = 0; i < jArray3 .length(); i++)
{
   JSONObject object3 = jArray3.getJSONObject(i);
   String comp_id = object3.getString("companyid");
   String username = object3.getString("username");
   String date = object3.getString("date");
   String report_id = object3.getString("reportid");
}

I have JSONObject like this: {"status":[{"Response":"success"}]}.

If I want to convert the JSONObject value, which is a JSONArray into JSONObject automatically without using any static value, here is the code for that.

JSONArray array=new JSONArray();
JSONObject obj2=new JSONObject();
obj2.put("Response", "success");
array.put(obj2);
JSONObject obj=new JSONObject();
obj.put("status",array);

Converting the JSONArray to JSON Object:

Iterator<String> it=obj.keys();
        while(it.hasNext()){
String keys=it.next();
JSONObject innerJson=new JSONObject(obj.toString());
JSONArray innerArray=innerJson.getJSONArray(keys);
for(int i=0;i<innerArray.length();i++){
JSONObject innInnerObj=innerArray.getJSONObject(i);
Iterator<String> InnerIterator=innInnerObj.keys();
while(InnerIterator.hasNext()){
System.out.println("InnInnerObject value is :"+innInnerObj.get(InnerIterator.next()));


 }
}

Even shorter and with json-functions:

JSONObject songsObject = json.getJSONObject("songs");
JSONArray songsArray = songsObject.toJSONArray(songsObject.names());

The difference is the same as a (Hash)Map vs List.

JSONObject:

• Contains named values (key->value pairs, tuples or whatever you want to call them)
  • like {ID : 1}
• Order of elements is not important
  • a JSONObject of {id: 1, name: 'B'} is equal to {name: 'B', id: 1}.

JSONArray:

• Contains only series values
  • like [1, 'value']
• Order of values is important
  • array of [1,'value'] is not the same as ['value',1]

Example

JSON Object --> { "":""}

JSON Array --> [ , , , ]

{"employees":[
    {"firstName":"John", "lastName":"Doe"},
    {"firstName":"Anna", "lastName":"Smith"},
    {"firstName":"Peter", "lastName":"Jones"}
]}