Parse JSON with Java SE and java-json, to search weather data from OpenWeatherMap

OpenWeatherMap provide APIs to search weather data in JSON, XML or HTML format. This example demonstrate how to parse JSON from OpenWeatherMap to search weather of London, UK.

Before we can use java-json in our project, follow the instruction to add JAR in NetBeans.

Example code:

package java_openweathermap;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;
import org.json.JSONObject;

/**
 *
 * @web http://java-buddy.blogspot.com/
 */
public class Java_OpenWeatherMap {

    static final String URL_OpenWeatherMap_weather_London_uk =
            "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London,uk";

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        
        String result = "";
        
        try {
            URL url_weather = new URL(URL_OpenWeatherMap_weather_London_uk);

            HttpURLConnection httpURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url_weather.openConnection();

            if (httpURLConnection.getResponseCode() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {

                InputStreamReader inputStreamReader =
                    new InputStreamReader(httpURLConnection.getInputStream());
                BufferedReader bufferedReader =
                    new BufferedReader(inputStreamReader, 8192);
                String line = null;
                while((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null){
                    result += line;
                }
                
                bufferedReader.close();
                
                String weatherResult = ParseResult(result);
                
                System.out.println(weatherResult);

            } else {
                System.out.println("Error in httpURLConnection.getResponseCode()!!!");
            }

        } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(Java_OpenWeatherMap.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(Java_OpenWeatherMap.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        } catch (JSONException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(Java_OpenWeatherMap.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
    }
    
    static private String ParseResult(String json) throws JSONException{
        
        String parsedResult = "";
     
        JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(json);

        parsedResult += "Number of object = " + jsonObject.length() + "\n\n";
     
        //"coord"
        JSONObject JSONObject_coord = jsonObject.getJSONObject("coord");
        Double result_lon = JSONObject_coord.getDouble("lon");
        Double result_lat = JSONObject_coord.getDouble("lat");
     
        //"sys"
        JSONObject JSONObject_sys = jsonObject.getJSONObject("sys");
        String result_country = JSONObject_sys.getString("country");
        int result_sunrise = JSONObject_sys.getInt("sunrise");
        int result_sunset = JSONObject_sys.getInt("sunset");
        
        //"weather"
        String result_weather;
        JSONArray JSONArray_weather = jsonObject.getJSONArray("weather");
        if(JSONArray_weather.length() > 0){
            JSONObject JSONObject_weather = JSONArray_weather.getJSONObject(0);
            int result_id = JSONObject_weather.getInt("id");
            String result_main = JSONObject_weather.getString("main");
            String result_description = JSONObject_weather.getString("description");
            String result_icon = JSONObject_weather.getString("icon");
        
            result_weather = "weather\tid: " + result_id +"\tmain: " + result_main + "\tdescription: " + result_description + "\ticon: " + result_icon;
        }else{
            result_weather = "weather empty!";
        }
        
        //"base"
        String result_base = jsonObject.getString("base");
        
        //"main"
        JSONObject JSONObject_main = jsonObject.getJSONObject("main");
        Double result_temp = JSONObject_main.getDouble("temp");
        Double result_pressure = JSONObject_main.getDouble("pressure");
        Double result_humidity = JSONObject_main.getDouble("humidity");
        Double result_temp_min = JSONObject_main.getDouble("temp_min");
        Double result_temp_max = JSONObject_main.getDouble("temp_max");
        
        //"wind"
        JSONObject JSONObject_wind = jsonObject.getJSONObject("wind");
        Double result_speed = JSONObject_wind.getDouble("speed");
        //Double result_gust = JSONObject_wind.getDouble("gust");
        Double result_deg = JSONObject_wind.getDouble("deg");
        String result_wind = "wind\tspeed: " + result_speed + "\tdeg: " + result_deg;
        
        //"clouds"
        JSONObject JSONObject_clouds = jsonObject.getJSONObject("clouds");
        int result_all = JSONObject_clouds.getInt("all");
        
        //"dt"
        int result_dt = jsonObject.getInt("dt");
        
        //"id"
        int result_id = jsonObject.getInt("id");
        
        //"name"
        String result_name = jsonObject.getString("name");
        
        //"cod"
        int result_cod = jsonObject.getInt("cod");
        
        return 
            "coord\tlon: " + result_lon + "\tlat: " + result_lat + "\n" +
            "sys\tcountry: " + result_country + "\tsunrise: " + result_sunrise + "\tsunset: " + result_sunset + "\n" +
            result_weather + "\n"+
            "base: " + result_base + "\n" +
            "main\ttemp: " + result_temp + "\thumidity: " + result_humidity + "\tpressure: " + result_pressure + "\ttemp_min: " + result_temp_min + "\ttemp_max: " + result_temp_min + "\n" +
            result_wind + "\n" +
            "clouds\tall: " + result_all + "\n" +
            "dt: " + result_dt + "\n" +
            "id: " + result_id + "\n" +
            "name: " + result_name + "\n" +
            "cod: " + result_cod + "\n" +
            "\n";
    }
}

search weather data from OpenWeatherMap

Note:
- It's a simple example, without handle error condition; such as service unavailable, some item missing...etc.