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Thread: JSON Decoding help

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    Question JSON Decoding help

    I got the .jar from json-simple - JSON.simple - A simple Java toolkit for JSON - Google Project Hosting that I added to my Java build path in eclipse. The example works and now I am trying to decode a JSON object from https://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php but I get an error : Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at mtgox.main(mtgox.java:45). Thanks for you help my code is posted below:
    I changed it back to the example to did compile correctly, but my problem is when i add the line variable to replace string s.
    		import java.io.BufferedReader;
    		import java.io.IOException;
    		import java.io.InputStreamReader;
    		import java.util.ArrayList;
    		import java.util.List;
     
    		import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
    		import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
    		import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
    		import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
    		import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
    		import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
    import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;
    import org.json.simple.JSONArray;
    import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
    import org.json.simple.JSONValue;
     
    		public class mtgox { 
    			public static void main(String[] args) {
    				HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
    				HttpPost post = new HttpPost("https://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php");
    				try {
    					List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(1);
    					nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("registrationid",
    							"123456789"));
    					post.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
     
    					HttpResponse response = client.execute(post);
    					BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent()));
    					String line = "";
    					while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
    						System.out.println(line);
    					}
     
    				} catch (IOException e) {
    					e.printStackTrace();
    				}
     
    				  System.out.println("=======decode=======");
     
    				  String s="[0,{\"1\":{\"2\":{\"3\":{\"4\":[5,{\"6\":7}]}}}}]";
    				  Object obj=JSONValue.parse(s);
    				  JSONArray array=(JSONArray)obj;
    				  System.out.println("======the 2nd element of array======");
    				  System.out.println(array.get(1));
    				  System.out.println();
     
    				  JSONObject obj2=(JSONObject)array.get(1);
    				  System.out.println("======field \"1\"==========");
    				  System.out.println(obj2.get("1"));    
     
     
    				  s="{}";
    				  obj=JSONValue.parse(s);
    				  System.out.println(obj);
     
    				  s="[1,]";
    				  obj=JSONValue.parse(s);
    				  System.out.println(obj);
     
    				  s="[5,,2]";
    				  obj=JSONValue.parse(s);
    				  System.out.println(obj);
    			}
     
     
    	}


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    Default Re: JSON Decoding help

    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at mtgox.main(mtgox.java:45).
    Look at line 45 in the your source and see what variable is null. Then backtrack in the code to see why that variable does not have a valid value.
    If you can not tell which variable it is, add a println just before line 45 and print out the values of all the varibles on that line.
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    Default Re: JSON Decoding help

    It is saying that my line variable is null when I try to decode it, but when I do println it prints out the whole JSON object and I only need the "high" and "low".

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    Default Re: JSON Decoding help

    It is saying that my line variable is null
    Can you post the source line that you are talking about? line 45 where the NPE occurred.

    I do println it prints out the whole JSON object
    The variable: line is defined as a String. How does an object get printed? I'd expect to see the content of the line variable which would be a String.
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