Get IMDB data to JSON array in java

Question

I am doing a project using java. In that project I have to get the movie data from IMDB. So far I have learned that, using a direct link with movie id we can get the data as a JSON file.

http://www.omdbapi.com/?i=tt2975590&plot=full&r=json

I want to get this data to a JSON array in java. can someone help me with this. Thank you.

Answer 1

The download function that download the file & return the result :

private static String download(String urlStr) throws IOException {
    URL url = new URL(urlStr);
    String ret = "";
    BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(url.openStream());
    byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
    int count = 0;
    while ((count = bis.read(buffer, 0, 1024)) != -1) {
        ret += new String(buffer, 0, count);
    }
    bis.close();
    return ret;
}

Build JsonObject & convert to JsonArray like that :

try {
    String ret = download("http://www.omdbapi.com/?i=tt2975590&plot=full&r=json");

    if (ret != null) {

        JSONObject items = new JSONObject(ret);
        Iterator x = items.keys();
        JSONArray jsonArray = new JSONArray();

        while (x.hasNext()) {
            String key = (String) x.next();
            jsonArray.put(items.get(key));
            System.out.println(key + " : " + items.get(key));
        }
    }

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