How to parse Json data in android for Firebase Clo

Question

i am using FCM for push messages and handling all incoming push notification in onMessageReceived. Now the issue is with parsing nested json that comes inside this function remoteMessage.getData()

I have following block coming as a push notification in device. content of data payload could be varied here it is dealer later on it can be productInfo

{
  "to": "/topics/DATA",
  "priority": "high",
  "data": {
    "type": 6,
    "dealerInfo": {
      "dealerId": "358",
      "operationCode": 2
    }
  }
}

this how i am parsing it

 if(remoteMessage.getData()!=null){

        JSONObject object = null;
        try {
            object = new JSONObject(remoteMessage.getData());       

        } catch (JSONException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }


    }

now i am getting data with blackslashes as remoteMessage.getData() returns Map<String,String> so probably my nested block is being converted in string not sure though.

{
  "wasTapped": false,
  "dealerInfo": "{\"dealerId\":\"358\",\"operationCode\":2}",
  "type": "6"
}

and if i write object = new JSONObject(remoteMessage.getData().toString()); then it got failed with following notification

{
  "to": "regid",
  "priority": "high",
  "notification" : {
      "body": "Message Body",
      "title" : "Call Status",
      "click_action":"FCM_PLUGIN_ACTIVITY"
   },
  "data": {
    "type": 1,
     "callNumber":"ICI17012702",
     "callTempId":"0",
      "body": "Message Body",
      "title" : "Call Status"
  }
}

error i get is

> org.json.JSONException: Unterminated object at character 15 of
> {body=Message Body, type=1, title=Call Status, callNumber=ICI17012702,
> callTempId=0}

Answer 1

Since dealerInfo is parsed as string and not an object, create a new JSONObject with the string

JSONObject dealerInfo = new JSONObject(object.getString("dealerInfo"));
String dealerId = dealerInfo.getString("dealerId");
String operationCode = dealerInfo.getString("operationCode");

Answer 2

I didn't want to add GSON (as I use moshi) to make it working, so I made Kotlin method to form json string from remoteMessage's map, tested this on one example, so don't forget to test this implementation before using:

override fun onMessageReceived(remoteMessage: RemoteMessage?) {
        super.onMessageReceived(remoteMessage)

        var jsonString = "{"

        remoteMessage?.data?.let {
            val iterator = it.iterator()

            while (iterator.hasNext()) {
                val mapEntry = iterator.next()
                jsonString += "\"${mapEntry.key}\": "
                val value = mapEntry.value.replace("\\", "")
                if (isValueWithoutQuotes(value)) {
                    jsonString += value
                } else {
                    jsonString += "\"$value\""
                }

                if (iterator.hasNext()) {
                    jsonString += ", "
                }
            }
        }

        jsonString += "}"


        println(jsonString)
    }

    private fun isValueWithoutQuotes(value: String):Boolean{
       return (value == "true" || value == "false" || value.startsWith("[") || value.startsWith("{") || value == "null" || value.toIntOrNull() != null )
    }

Edit:

Even better approach is to form FCM data like:

notificationType: "here is ur notification type"
notificationData: {
//here goes ur data
}

That way we can retreive both values from map.

remoteMessage?.data?.let {
    it["notificationData"]?.let {
         jsonString = it.replace("\\", "")
    }
}

We got clear json without "playing" around. And we can then use notificationType to convert json to the object that we need (as several notification data types can be passed sometimes)

Answer 3

I have changed to

JSONObject json = new JSONObject(remoteMessage.getData());

from

JSONObject json = new JSONObject(remoteMessage.getData().toString());

and work fine.

Answer 4

try this code:

public void onMessageReceived(RemoteMessage remoteMessage)
    {
        Log.e("DATA",remoteMessage.getData().toString());
        try
        {
            Map<String, String> params = remoteMessage.getData();
            JSONObject object = new JSONObject(params);
            Log.e("JSON OBJECT", object.toString());
            String callNumber = object.getString("callNumber");
            //rest of the code
      }
   }

Also make sure your JSON is valid use This

Answer 5

Faced this issue when migrating from GCM to FCM.

The following is working for my use case (and OP payload), so perhaps it will work for others.

JsonObject jsonObject = new JsonObject(); // com.google.gson.JsonObject
JsonParser jsonParser = new JsonParser(); // com.google.gson.JsonParser
Map<String, String> map = remoteMessage.getData();
String val;

for (String key : map.keySet()) {
    val = map.get(key);
    try {
        jsonObject.add(key, jsonParser.parse(val));
    } catch (Exception e) {
        jsonObject.addProperty(key, val);
    }
}

// Now you can traverse jsonObject, or use to populate a custom object:
// MyObj o = new Gson().fromJson(jsonObject, MyObj.class)