Android™

JSON Hex Encoding

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Let's say your JSON contains content that is hex encoded like this: \u05d1\u05d3\u05d9\u05e7

This example shows how to get the decoded string.

Android™

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    String s = "{ \"example\": \"\\u05d1\\u05d3\\u05d9\\u05e7\" }";

    CkJsonObject json = new CkJsonObject();

    success = json.Load(s);

    // When getting the member data, it is automatically decoded.
    Log.i(TAG, "member data: " + json.stringOf("example"));

    // Output:
    // member data: בדיק

    // When getting the full JSON, it remains encoded. This is expected and intentional.
    Log.i(TAG, "full JSON: " + json.emit());

    // Output:
    // full JSON: {"example":"\u05d1\u05d3\u05d9\u05e7"}

    // To get the full JSON without the encoding, you can decode manually.
    CkStringBuilder sb = new CkStringBuilder();
    json.EmitSb(sb);
    // The hex encoding used by JSON is utf-8.
    sb.Decode("json","utf-8");

    Log.i(TAG, sb.getAsString());

    // Output:
    // {"example":"בדיק"}

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}