JSON array as value getting text

Question

I have created API for creating a customer in PHP, the client side is in Android would use a POST request to access this API. For testing I have used chrome postman where I had used post data as :

{"name":"test","marks":["12","13","16"],"age":19}

and it is working fine.

I am getting marks as array itself ["12","13","16"].

But from android client I am getting as text ["12","13","14"].

What may be the possible reason?

@PRASANTH Im not sure I have understood your doubt properly; but from your post, what I feel is that, you have confusion on the JSON data available in Android client, Im I right? You want to get the response in the form of a JSON object. — rahul, Nov 11 '13 at 06:11
@rahul exactly no problem for web but there may be some problem with content type. — PRASANTH, Nov 11 '13 at 06:18
@PRASANTH you mean, you are not getting a proper json response in the Android side? If it works on the Postman, Im sure there is some trouble with the codes in the client side. Can you post that here? — rahul, Nov 11 '13 at 06:23
@PRASANTH try this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3408985/json-array-iteration-in-android-java — rahul, Nov 11 '13 at 08:12

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 11 '13 at 06:00

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POST it as :

{"name":"test","marks":[12,13,16],"age":19}

You are posting it as String inside array ["12","13","16"]

answered Nov 11 '13 at 06:00

Vicky Gonsalves

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not it was just an test data it can be ["test","test","test"] both are not working for me. – PRASANTH Nov 11 '13 at 06:16
Are you parseing it at server end? – Vicky Gonsalves Nov 11 '13 at 06:19
yes iam just decoding it since the array is getting as string iam not able to decode. – PRASANTH Nov 11 '13 at 06:59

Harish Singh · Answer 2 · 2013-11-11T06:27:47.083

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try to use it like

{"name":"test","marks":["12","13","16"],"age":19}

edited Nov 11 '13 at 06:27

answered Nov 11 '13 at 06:01

Harish Singh

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how you are using the json string, its working for me – Harish Singh Nov 11 '13 at 06:10
How did u parse {"name":"test","marks":[{"12","13","16"}],"age":19}? – Vicky Gonsalves Nov 11 '13 at 06:11
in php i would use simple json_encode for marks param which would be as that of web – PRASANTH Nov 11 '13 at 06:13
For android i havnt put content type "application/json". Is that the reason. – PRASANTH Nov 11 '13 at 06:19
you are using it without key so it should be like ["12","13","16"] – Harish Singh Nov 11 '13 at 06:28
@HarishSingh Still it gives me string. – PRASANTH Nov 11 '13 at 06:58

JSON array as value getting text

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