try catch code reading JSON file Android

Question

having some serious problem when trying to read a local JSON file. I've looked everywhere for many days now and the best and farthest I could get was copying from Faizan's answer. Reading a json file in Android

How come that Android Studio doesn't let me generate the second try-catch code block here?

Help and advice are very much appreciated!!

This is My code

public String loadJSONFromAsset() {
    String json = null;
    try {
        InputStream is = getAssets().open("names.json");
        int size = is.available();
        byte[] buffer = new byte[size];
        is.read(buffer);
        is.close();
        json = new String(buffer, "UTF-8");
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
        return null;
    }
    return json;
}

String jsonString = loadJSONFromAsset();

try {
    JSONObject json = new JSONObject(jsonString);
    JSONObject jObject = json.getJSONObject("female");
    JSONObject jObject2 = jObject.getJSONObject("adult");
    String name = jObject2.toString();

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

 }

post your code within your description with good formatting. please don't use external links for people to see your code. — Ousmane D., Mar 17 '17 at 22:38
Also, the reason why Android shows an error on your try/catch is because it's not contained within a method. — Ousmane D., Mar 17 '17 at 22:41

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 19 '17 at 00:09

How come that Android Studio doesn't let me generate the second try-catch code block here?

Simply, because your code is not inside a method.

Doing something like below should solve the error.

public void someMethodIdentifier(){ // doesn't have to be void return type, you know better than me what type you want to return.
    String jsonString = loadJSONFromAsset();
    try {
       JSONObject json = new JSONObject(jsonString);
       JSONObject jObject = json.getJSONObject("female");
       JSONObject jObject2 = jObject.getJSONObject("adult");
       String name = jObject2.toString();
    }
    catch (Exception e) {
       e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Note - from the looks of the statements that's contained within the try block I think you intended to return some data? if that's the case just replace the void return type with the appropriate return type and return that data.

try catch code reading JSON file Android

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