Remove back slash from Json String in android

Question

i need some help for Remove Back slash from Json String.

Here is the Response which i Get From Server side.

"response":"{\"time_zone\":\"\",\"session_token\":\"abcdefgHijklomopqrstuvwxyz\",\"user_login\":\"abc\",\"user_profile_img\":\"http://jhjhjhj.org/system/photos/62/medium/images.jpg?1462446436\",\"success\":\"0\",\"org_admin\":\"\",\"user_id\":\"62\",\"user_org_id\":\"101\",\"phone_mobile\":\"510-427-9639\",\"user_email\":\"[email protected]\"}"}

what i have don for Remove Backslash from this String

result.replaceAll("\\","");

than After it will give me This String which is not in Json Formate.

{"response":"{"time_zone":"","session_token":"nskfndkjfsfsdffjsdfd","user_login":"newoff2","user_profile_img":"http://absdds.org/system/photos/62/medium/images.jpg?1462446436","success":"0","org_admin":"","user_id":"62","user_org_id":"101","phone_mobile":"510-427-9639","user_email":"[email protected]"}"}

it Give me Exaption

    org.json.JSONException: Unterminated object at character 17 of 

{"response":"{"time_zone":"","session_token":"kjshhdscncnxzcxclx","user_login":"newoff2","user_profile_img":"http://abcd.org/system/photos/62/medium/images.jpg?1462446436","success":"0","org_admin":"","user_id":"62","user_org_id":"101","phone_mobile":"510-427-9898","user_email":"[email protected]"}"}

How Can i remove this Back slash with Proper Json Formate ?

Thanks in advance

Solution 1

The command

result.replaceAll("\\","");

is correct and if you try to display the server response with an online json formatter (https://jsonformatter.curiousconcept.com/) you can clearly see that the string is not correctly formatted. The double quotes after the "response" and one at the end are not required.

Solution 2

UPDATED: August 2019 Use google's Gson for parsing to Json by omitting backslash automatically:

JAVA CODE:

    JsonParser jsonParser = new JsonParser();
    JsonObject jsonObject = jsonParser.parse("your jsonString with backslash").getAsJsonObject();

KOTLIN CODE:

    val jsonParser = JsonParser()
    val jsonObject = jsonParser.parse("your jsonString with backslash").asJsonObject

Comments

[OneCricketeer]

Fix the server from escaping the quotes... Don't fix the Java code

[OneCricketeer]

I don't think that will work. What if the JSON data actually had a backslash in a string, for example?

[Lino]

I agree with you @cricket_007, but I was focused on the specific example RushDroid provided

[Md. Yamin Mollah]

It will not work most cases where the json itself contains a backslash as its value such as a web url. The url value then will be destroyed completely. Wrong answer is accepted. I posted the proper answer in below post. Alas the questioner does not know that what dangerous code he pushed into his project.

[David Buck]

Could you please add an explanation to your answer to help future readers?