How do I parse JSON from a Java HTTPResponse?

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Published on 2010-05-16T21:39:43Z Indexed on 2010/05/16 21:50 UTC
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I have an HttpResponse object for a web request I just made. The response is in the JSON format, so I need to parse it. I can do it in an absurdly complex way, but it seems like there must be a better way.

Is this really the best I can do?

    HttpResponse response; // some response object
    Reader in = new BufferedReader(
        new InputStreamReader(response.getEntity().getContent(), "UTF-8"));
    StringBuilder builder= new StringBuilder();
    char[] buf = new char[1000];
    int l = 0;
    while (l >= 0) {
        builder.append(buf, 0, l);
        l = in.read(buf);
    }
    JSONTokener tokener = new JSONTokener( builder.toString() );
    JSONArray finalResult = new JSONArray( tokener );

I'm on Android if that makes any difference.

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