json - Merge (Concat) Multiple JSONObjects in Java

Question

I am consuming some JSON from two different sources, I end up with two JSONObjects and I'd like to combine them into one.

Data:

"Object1": {
    "Stringkey":"StringVal",
    "ArrayKey": [Data0, Data1]
}

"Object2": {
    "Stringkey":"StringVal",
    "Stringkey":"StringVal",
    "Stringkey":"StringVal",
}

Code, using http://json.org/java/ library:

// jso1 and jso2 are some JSONObjects already instantiated
JSONObject Obj1 = (JSONObject) jso.get("Object1");
JSONObject Obj2 = (JSONObject) jso.get("Object2");

So in this situation I'd like to combine Obj1 and Obj2, either to make a totally new JSONObject or concat one to the other. Any ideas besides pulling them all apart and individually adding in by puts?

Answer 1

If you want a new object with two keys, Object1 and Object2, you can do:

JSONObject Obj1 = (JSONObject) jso1.get("Object1");
JSONObject Obj2 = (JSONObject) jso2.get("Object2");
JSONObject combined = new JSONObject();
combined.put("Object1", Obj1);
combined.put("Object2", Obj2);

If you want to merge them, so e.g. a top level object has 5 keys (Stringkey1, ArrayKey, StringKey2, StringKey3, StringKey4), I think you have to do that manually:

JSONObject merged = new JSONObject(Obj1, JSONObject.getNames(Obj1));
for(String key : JSONObject.getNames(Obj2))
{
  merged.put(key, Obj2.get(key));
}

This would be a lot easier if JSONObject implemented Map, and supported putAll.