Accessing members of items in a JSONArray with Java

I'm just getting started with using json with java. I'm not sure how to access string values within a JSONArray. For instance, my json looks like this:

{
  "locations": {
    "record": [
      {
        "id": 8817,
        "loc": "NEW YORK CITY"
      },
      {
        "id": 2873,
        "loc": "UNITED STATES"
      },
      {
        "id": 1501
        "loc": "NEW YORK STATE"
      }
    ]
  }
}

my code:

JSONObject req = new JSONObject(join(loadStrings(data.json),""));
JSONObject locs = req.getJSONObject("locations");
JSONArray recs = locs.getJSONArray("record");

I have access to the "record" JSONArray at this point, but am unsure as to how I'd get the "id" and "loc" values within a for loop. Sorry if this description isn't too clear, I'm a bit new to programming.

Have you tried using JSONArray.getJSONObject(int), and JSONArray.length() to create your for-loop:

for (int i = 0; i < recs.length(); ++i) {
    JSONObject rec = recs.getJSONObject(i);
    int id = rec.getInt("id");
    String loc = rec.getString("loc");
    // ...
}

An org.json.JSONArray is not iterable.
Here's how I process elements in a net.sf.json.JSONArray:

    JSONArray lineItems = jsonObject.getJSONArray("lineItems");
    for (Object o : lineItems) {
        JSONObject jsonLineItem = (JSONObject) o;
        String key = jsonLineItem.getString("key");
        String value = jsonLineItem.getString("value");
        ...
    }

Works great... :)

Java 8 is in the market after almost 2 decades, following is the way to iterate org.json.JSONArray with java8 Stream API.

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONObject;

@Test
public void access_org_JsonArray() {
    //Given: array
    JSONArray jsonArray = new JSONArray(Arrays.asList(new JSONObject(
                    new HashMap() {{
                        put("a", 100);
                        put("b", 200);
                    }}
            ),
            new JSONObject(
                    new HashMap() {{
                        put("a", 300);
                        put("b", 400);
                    }}
            )));

    //Then: convert to List<JSONObject>
    List<JSONObject> jsonItems = IntStream.range(0, jsonArray.length())
            .mapToObj(index -> (JSONObject) jsonArray.get(index))
            .collect(Collectors.toList());

    // you can access the array elements now
    jsonItems.forEach(arrayElement -> System.out.println(arrayElement.get("a")));
    // prints 100, 300
}

If the iteration is only one time, (no need to .collect)

    IntStream.range(0, jsonArray.length())
            .mapToObj(index -> (JSONObject) jsonArray.get(index))
            .forEach(item -> {
               System.out.println(item);
            });

By looking at your code, I sense you are using JSONLIB. If that was the case, look at the following snippet to convert json array to java array..

 JSONArray jsonArray = (JSONArray) JSONSerializer.toJSON( input );  
 JsonConfig jsonConfig = new JsonConfig();  
 jsonConfig.setArrayMode( JsonConfig.MODE_OBJECT_ARRAY );  
 jsonConfig.setRootClass( Integer.TYPE );  
 int[] output = (int[]) JSONSerializer.toJava( jsonArray, jsonConfig );  

In case it helps someone else, I was able to convert to an array by doing something like this,

JSONObject jsonObject = (JSONObject)new JSONParser().parse(jsonString);
((JSONArray) jsonObject).toArray()

...or you should be able to get the length

((JSONArray) myJsonArray).toArray().length

HashMap regs = (HashMap) parser.parse(stringjson);

(String)((HashMap)regs.get("firstlevelkey")).get("secondlevelkey");