I am trying to parse some JSON into separate objects in Android. The objects are separated by an end brace, no whitespace, then a start brace ("end of first}{start of second"). So far, my code allows me to find where these points are in the JSON, but I can't figure out what methods to use in order to split the objects and then store them. Here's my code that gets the JSON and then attempts to parse:

public ArrayList<String> getQuestionJSONFromUrl(String url, List<NameValuePair> params) {

    // Making HTTP request
try {
        // defaultHttpClient
        DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
        httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params));

        HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
        HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
        is = httpEntity.getContent();

    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    try {
        ArrayList<String> questionsList = new ArrayList<String>();
        int count = 0;
        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                is, "iso-8859-1"), 8);
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        String line = null;
        String newLine = null;
        String newLine2 = null;
        int previousJ = 0;
        if ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            for(int j = 0; j < line.length(); j++) {
                while (line.charAt(j) == '}' && line.charAt(j+1) == '{') {
                    //everything before j = 1 string
                    //everything after gets deleted because I can't think
                    //of anything better, yet                       
                    sb.append(line);
                    sb.delete(j+1, sb.length());
                    line = sb.toString();
                    questionsList.add(count, line);
                    //line = line.split("\\}\\{");
                    Log.v("forintbs", questionsList.toString());
                    count++;
                }
            }
        }
        is.close();
        json = sb.toString();            
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e("Buffer Error", "Error converting result " + e.toString());
    }        
    // try parse the string to a JSON object
    try {
        jObj = new JSONObject(json);
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        Log.e("JSON Parser", "Error parsing data " + e.toString());
    } 
    // return JSON String
    return null; 
}

Obviously the method is returning null for now, because it wouldn't matter anyways. So far, when I look in the Log to see the printout, my arraylist is one long and has properly acquired the string as expected - but the rest of the original data is also deleted as expected. I've left my code exactly as is so you can see what I've tried. Does anyone have any suggestions? Here's some of the sample JSON:

{"category":"elections","id":"0","title":"Who will you vote for in November's Presidential election?","published":"2012-04-02","enddate":"2012-04-30","responsetype":"0"}

{"category":"elections","id":"2","title":"Question title, ladies and gents","published":"2012-04-02","enddate":"2012-04-30","responsetype":"1"}

I'd have no problem not using an ArrayList, but instead an array of JSON Objects. I am simply trying as suggested in a question I asked yesterday.

EDIT~ Here's my PHP Script:

<?php

define("DB_HOST", "localhost");
define("DB_USER", "*");
define("DB_PASSWORD", "*");
define("DB_DATABASE", "*");

mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD);
mysql_select_db(DB_DATABASE);
$sql=mysql_query("select * from QUESTIONS where CATEGORY like 'elections'");
while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($sql)) {
$output[]=$row;
}
foreach($output as $value) {
echo json_encode($value);
}
?>

• php
• android
• sql
• json

As Marc B said, I needed stronger/more correct PHP code. Another Stack Overflow user helped me refine the code that Marc B assisted me in understanding. Now the JSON is returned as properly encoded data, but I still have not determined how to parse it into separate objects. I will get there soon.

Here is the partial solution: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10019165/1231943