title: Converting String of Json to JsonObject
body: <p>I have a String of Json received from a web service http get request.  I would like to turn the string that I have formed into a JsonObject.</p>
  
  <p>The question has been answered perfectly.  Please see answer below.</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-java prettyprint-override"><code>import java.lang.reflect.Method;
  import java.lang.reflect.Type;
  import java.net.URL;
  import java.net.URLConnection;
  import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
  import java.util.List;
  import java.io.*;
  import java.util.*;
  
  import com.google.gson.Gson;
  import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
  import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
  import com.google.gson.JsonParser;
  
  public class RetrieveData {
  
      public static String httpGet(String urlStr) throws IOException {
          URL url = new URL(urlStr);
          HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
  
          if (conn.getResponseCode() != 200) {
              throw new IOException(conn.getResponseMessage());
          }
  
          // Buffer the result into a string
          BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                  conn.getInputStream()));
          StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
          String line;
          while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
              sb.append(line);
          }
          rd.close();
  
          conn.disconnect();
          return sb.toString();
      }
  
      public static void main(String[] args) {
          try {
              String jsonString = (httpGet("http://kinseyreporter.org/API/list/reports/?tag=male%20victim&amp;from=2012-06-02"));
              JsonObject obj = new JsonObject();
  
              Gson gson = new Gson();
              System.out.println(jsonString);
              List&lt;String&gt; list = new ArrayList&lt;String&gt;();
              gson.fromJson(jsonString, (Type) list);
              String json = gson.toJson(jsonString);
              System.out.println(json);
          } catch (Exception E) {
          }
      }
  }
  </code></pre>