Make a standard request

This lesson describes how to use the common request types that Volley supports:

StringRequest. Specify a URL and receive a raw string in response. See Set up a RequestQueue for an example.
JsonObjectRequest and JsonArrayRequest (both subclasses of JsonRequest). Specify a URL and get a JSON object or array (respectively) in response.

If your expected response is one of these types, you probably don’t have to implement a custom request. This lesson describes how to use these standard request types. For information on how to implement your own custom request, see Implement a custom request.

Request JSON

Volley provides the following classes for JSON requests:

JsonArrayRequest: A request for retrieving a JSONArray response body at a given URL.
JsonObjectRequest: A request for retrieving a JSONObject response body at a given URL, allowing for an optional JSONObject to be passed in as part of the request body.

Both classes are based on the common base class JsonRequest. You use them following the same basic pattern you use for other types of requests. For example, this snippet fetches a JSON feed and displays it as text in the UI:

Kotlin

val url = "http://my-json-feed"

val jsonObjectRequest = JsonObjectRequest(Request.Method.GET, url, null,
        Response.Listener { response ->
            textView.text = "Response: %s".format(response.toString())
        },
        Response.ErrorListener { error ->
            // TODO: Handle error
        }
)

// Access the RequestQueue through your singleton class.
MySingleton.getInstance(this).addToRequestQueue(jsonObjectRequest)

Java

String url = "http://my-json-feed";

JsonObjectRequest jsonObjectRequest = new JsonObjectRequest
        (Request.Method.GET, url, null, new Response.Listener<JSONObject>() {

    @Override
    public void onResponse(JSONObject response) {
        textView.setText("Response: " + response.toString());
    }
}, new Response.ErrorListener() {

    @Override
    public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {
        // TODO: Handle error

    }
});

// Access the RequestQueue through your singleton class.
MySingleton.getInstance(this).addToRequestQueue(jsonObjectRequest);

For an example of implementing a custom JSON request based on Gson, see the next lesson, Implement a custom request.