How To Convert JSONArray To LinkedHashMap<String,String>?

You can iterate the Array and use this method

public static Map parseStringToMap(String param)
    {
        Map result  =   new HashMap<String,String>();
        if(param!=null)
        {
            StringBuffer sb     =   new StringBuffer(param);    
            try
            {
                String str  =   sb.substring(1, sb.length()-1);
                String[] srArray    =   str.split(",");
                String tempStr  =   null;
                for(int i=0;srArray!=null && i<srArray.length;i++)
                {
                    tempStr =   srArray[i];
                    if(tempStr!=null && tempStr.contains(":"))
                    {
                        String[] keyVal =   tempStr.split(":");
                        if(keyVal.length>1)
                            result.put(keyVal[0], keyVal[1]);
                        else
                            result.put(keyVal[0], "");
                    }

                }

            }
            catch(Exception e)
            {
                System.out.println("In JSONConverter: Issue while parsing the JSON => "+e.getMessage());
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        return result;  
    }

You can write a helper method which takes answer array as input and returns map of question and answer.

private static Map<String, String> getHashMapFromJson(JSONArray answer_Array) {

        Map<String, String> qaMap = new LinkedHashMap<String, String>();

        Iterator<JSONObject> iterator = answer_Array.iterator();

        while (iterator.hasNext()) {
            JSONObject value = iterator.next();

            qaMap.put((String) value.get("qId"), (String) value.get("ansValue"));
        }

        return qaMap;
    }

You Can do something like (To Avoid Overwrite):

Map result  =   new HashMap<String,String>();
for( int i = 0 ; i < jArray.length() ; i++ ){
       JSONObject object = jArray.getJSONObject(i);
       result.put(object.getString("qId"), object.getString("ansValue"));
}

for (Object variableName: result.keySet()){
       System.out.println(String.valueOf(variableName));
       System.out.println(result.get(variableName));
}

Main Reason I have done "qId"+i is that you want data in Hashmap so if the same key then it ll overwrite the already exist. and you want qId as key.

It's better to use List instead of it and make one class of data it will work perfect.

OR YOU CAN TRY

My code (With List):

static class KeyVal{
    String qkey; String qval; String akey; String aval;
    public String getQkey() {return qkey;}
    public void setQkey(String qkey) { this.qkey = qkey;}
    public String getQval() {return qval;}
    public void setQval(String qval) {this.qval = qval;}
    public String getAkey() {return akey;}
    public void setAkey(String akey) {this.akey = akey;}
    public String getAval() {return aval;}
    public void setAval(String aval) {this.aval = aval;}
}
List<KeyVal> data = new ArrayList<>();
KeyVal key;
for( int i = 0 ; i < ja.length() ; i++ ){
    JSONObject object = ja.getJSONObject(i);
    key = new KeyVal();
    key.setQkey("qId"); key.setQval(object.getString("qId"));
    key.setAkey("ansValue"); key.setAval(object.getString("ansValue"));
    data.add(key);
}
for( int i = 0 ; i < data.size() ; i++ ){
    System.out.println(data.get(i).getQkey() + " : " + data.get(i).getQval());
    System.out.println(data.get(i).getAkey() + " : " + data.get(i).getAval());
}

This method Works For me ->

 /* Extract The JSONArray and insert The qid and ansValue into the HashMap<String,String> */

       JSONArray answer =    (JSONArray) inputJsonObj.get("answer");                                   
               JSONParser parser3 = new JSONParser();
               JSONObject jsonObject3 = null;
               for(int i=0;i< answer.size();i++){                      
                    System.out.println(answer.get(i).toString());
                    Object obj3 = parser3.parse(answer.get(i).toString());
                    jsonObject3 = (JSONObject) obj3;
                    String qid = (String) jsonObject3.get("qId");
                    String ansValue = (String) jsonObject3.get("ansValue");                     
                    map.put(qid, ansValue);
               }