java - JSON order mixed up

Question

I've a problem trying to make my page printing out the JSONObject in the order i want. In my code, I entered this:

JSONObject myObject = new JSONObject();
myObject.put("userid", "User 1");
myObject.put("amount", "24.23");
myObject.put("success", "NO");

However, when I see the display on my page, it gives:

JSON formatted string: [{"success":"NO", "userid":"User 1", "bid":24.23}]

I need it in the order of userid, amount, then success. Already tried re-ordering in the code, but to no avail. I've also tried .append....need some help here thanks!!

Answer 1

You cannot and should not rely on the ordering of elements within a JSON object.

From the JSON specification at https://www.json.org/

An object is an unordered set of name/value pairs

As a consequence, JSON libraries are free to rearrange the order of the elements as they see fit. This is not a bug.