JAVA store string Array in postgres and retrieve a JSON data from it -

i'm getting trouble images paths storage in db. if pass paths string array , store in text[] array column in postgresql - receiving text value in response

"item_id":44,"item_phone":"432432423423","item_price":67676,"item_descr":"iojgoewjgoiwejgiewjgojoij","item_images":"{8f8161d3a6bdf6ahrth8fd35725356.jpg,11136408_101535465482739704_1782611644_o.jpg,15032923164db54t54d7ee548.jpg.thumb.jpg}","item_title":"ojreogreoihigjei","item_email":"jfeiwojiejowegj@ijfe" 

"item_images" array value in " " in response, receive string value. want receive json array/list

so, better way organize images paths storage in db receive data json list/array?

this how works now:

the model receive data post:

public class item {     public string title;     public string descr;     public string phone;     public string email;     public string images[];     public int price; } 

this how store values in db:

    preparedstatement statement=conn.preparestatement("insert goods (item_title, item_descr, item_email, item_phone, item_images, item_price)\n" +             "                    values ( ? , ? , ? , ? , ? , ? )");     int index=1;     statement.setint(index++, item.condo_id);     statement.setstring(index++,item.title.trim());     statement.setstring(index++,item.descr.trim());     statement.setstring(index++,item.email.trim());     statement.setstring(index++,item.phone); //assuming string     statement.setarray(index++, conn.createarrayof("text", item.images));     statement.setint(index++,item.price); //assuming double     int rowsupdated = statement.executeupdate(); 

this how return values in form of jsonarray:

statement st = conn.createstatement();         resultset rs = st.executequery("query select data db");          jsonarray jsonarray;         jsonarray = converttojson(rs);  public static jsonarray converttojson(resultset resultset) throws exception {     jsonarray jsonarray = new jsonarray();     while (resultset.next()) {         int total_rows = resultset.getmetadata().getcolumncount();         jsonobject obj = new jsonobject();         (int = 0; < total_rows; i++) {             obj.put(resultset.getmetadata().getcolumnlabel(i + 1)                     .tolowercase(), resultset.getobject(i + 1));         }         jsonarray.put(obj);     }     return jsonarray; } 

you can try modify converttojson() method this

            string name = resultset.getmetadata().getcolumnlabel(i + 1)                     .tolowercase();             int type = resultset.getmetadata().getcolumntype(i);             if (java.sql.types.array == type) {                 obj.put(name, resultset.getarray(i + 1));             } else {                 obj.put(name, resultset.getobject(i + 1));             }