It should look like this:

boolean found = false;
for (int i = 0; i < jsonArray.length(); i++)
    if (jsonArray.getString(i).equals(myElementToSearch))
        found = true;

I assume that jsonArray has type http://www.json.org/javadoc/org/json/JSONArray.html.

You could try this:

    public String returnSearch(JSONArray array, String searchValue){
            JSONArray filtedArray = new JSONArray();
            for (int i = 0; i < array.length(); i++) {
                JSONObject obj= null;
                try {
                    obj = array.getJSONObject(i);
                    if(obj.getString("name").equals(searchValue))
                    {
                        filtedArray.put(obj);
                    }
                } catch (JSONException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
        }
        String result = filtedArray.toString();
        return result;
   }

Codes are self explanatory, so comments are omitted, hope it helpful.

Your elements is a JSONArray, but you are trying to parse it as a JSONObject, change your code like this:

JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(PaListContent);
JSONArray myResponse = jsonObject.getJSONArray("elements");
//JSONArray tsmresponse = (JSONArray) myResponse.get("listTsm");

ArrayList<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();

for(int i=0; i<myResponse.length(); i++){
    list.add(myResponse.getJSONObject(i).getString("name"));
}

System.out.println(list);

This will work as expected

This is your Json object Format

Try this for getting correct result -

JSONObject list = new JSONObject(content).getJSONObject("list");
JSONArray resources = list.getJSONArray("resources");
for (int j = 0; j < resources.length(); j++) {
  JSONObject resource = resources.getJSONObject(j).getJSONObject("resource");
  JSONObject fields = resource.getJSONObject("fields");
    if(fields.getString("symbol").equals("XAG=X")){
       System.out.println("Price of symbol(XAG=X) is"+ fields.getString("price"));
    }    
}

Org.json library is quite easy to use.

Example code below:

import org.json.*;

JSONObject obj = new JSONObject(" yourJSONObjectHere ");

JSONArray arr = obj.getJSONArray("networkArray");
for (int i = 0; i < arr.length(); i++)
{
    String networkCode = arr.getJSONObject(i).getString("networkCode");
    ......
}

By iterating on your JSONArray, you can check if each object is equal to your search.

You may find more examples from: Parse JSON in Java

The issue is that you're trying to treat JsonArray to JsonObject. Try the below code and see if it works for you. Point of interest for now is - JsonObject rootObj = rootArr.get(0).getAsJsonObject();

public static void main(String[] args) {

    String json = "[{\"blobJson\":\"x\",\"deviceMfg\":10,\"eventCode\":0,\"sensorClass\":3,\"sensorUUID\":\"136199\",\"timeStamp\":1.483384640123117E9,\"uID\":\"136199_3_10\"},{\"blobJson\":\"x\",\"deviceMfg\":10,\"eventCode\":0,\"sensorClass\":3,\"sensorUUID\":\"136199\",\"timeStamp\":1.483379834470379E9,\"uID\":\"136199_3_10\"},{\"blobJson\":\"x\",\"deviceMfg\":10,\"eventCode\":0,\"sensorClass\":3,\"sensorUUID\":\"136199\",\"timeStamp\":1.483384639621985E9,\"uID\":\"136199_3_10\"}]";

    JsonParser jp = new JsonParser();
    JsonElement root = jp.parse(json);
    JsonArray rootArr = root.getAsJsonArray();

    JsonObject rootObj = rootArr.get(0).getAsJsonObject();
    rootObj.entrySet().forEach(entry -> System.out.println(entry.getKey()+": "+entry.getValue().getAsString()));

}

You can also use the JsonPath project provided by REST Assured. This JsonPath project uses Groovy GPath expressions. In Maven you can depend on it like this:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.jayway.restassured</groupId>
    <artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
    <version>2.4.0</version>
</dependency>

Examples:

To get a list of all book categories:

List<String> categories = JsonPath.from(json).get("store.book.category");

Get the first book category:

String category = JsonPath.from(json).get("store.book[0].category");

Get the last book category:

String category = JsonPath.from(json).get("store.book[-1].category");

Get all books with price between 5 and 15:

List<Map> books = JsonPath.from(json).get("store.book.findAll { book -> book.price >= 5 && book.price <= 15 }");

GPath is very powerful and you can make use of higher order functions and all Groovy data structures in your path expressions.

Have you tried using JSONArray.getJSONObject(int), and JSONArray.length() to create your for-loop:

for (int i = 0; i < recs.length(); ++i) {
    JSONObject rec = recs.getJSONObject(i);
    int id = rec.getInt("id");
    String loc = rec.getString("loc");
    // ...
}

This could work: $[?(@[2] == 'Some name 2')][1]

Background:

If you try the "original" JSONPath implementation written by Stefan Goessner, the following expression returns the expected array:

$..[?(@[2] == 'Some name 2')] (a descendant where value at index 2 is 'Some name 2')

===> ["Some parent 2"]

It is interesting... try these expressions with jayway, Goessners-JSON-lib or jsonquerytool :

"$..*" //list of all descendants (both child-arrays + elements in arrays)
"$.*" //list of all direct children (both child arrays)
"$" //actual element (the array itself)

Stefan Goessner's JavaScript library returns the same as the "jayway" implementation. But "jsonquerytool" gives false for $ - which is definitively wrong. $ is "the root object/element".

And for $..* this is the same result with all three implementations:

[
    [
        "Some short name",
        "Some parent",
        "Some name"
    ],
    [
        "Some short name 2",
        "Some parent 2",
        "Some name 2"
    ],
    "Some short name",
    "Some parent",
    "Some name",
    "Some short name 2",
    "Some parent 2",
    "Some name 2"
]

So $..[?(@[2] == 'Some name 2')] should match the array at index '1'... in my opinion, jayway is doing it wrong.

With JSONPath square brackets operate on the object or array addressed by the previous path fragment. (see http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/)

Goessner is the inventor of JSONPath - so his implementation is doing it the right way!!! summary: jsonquerytool's and jayway's implementations are wrong.

Surprisingly this query is working as expected in all implementations (although $ is false in jsonquerytool)

$[?(@[2] == 'Some name 2')][1]

also this version works:

$.[?(@[2] == 'Some name 2')][1]