Different ways to convert a JSON string to a JSON object in Java
In this shot, we will cover different ways to convert a JSON string to a JSON object in Java.
Let’s generate a random JSON with the help of a JSON generator.
{
"_id": "61055ba08cf4754d7ba5d191",
"index": 6,
"guid": "f74a0878-0dc5-47a4-a7cf-c7ff806765af",
"isActive": false,
"balance": "$3,211.08",
"picture": "http://placehold.it/32x32",
"age": 31,
"eyeColor": "brown",
"name": "Estrada Martinez",
"gender": "male",
"company": "QUIZKA",
"email": "estradamartinez@quizka.com",
"phone": "+1 (896) 583-3530",
"address": "265 Williams Court, Manila, Wisconsin, 5703",
"about": "Nulla consequat duis minim velit nisi elit deserunt eu sint. In nisi et proident ullamco velit. Amet consequat irure tempor non consequat ad consequat non reprehenderit fugiat nostrud sit. Ex eu irure nostrud fugiat exercitation esse commodo ad id magna id consequat eiusmod.\r\n",
"registered": "2018-09-17T04:47:34 -06:-30",
"latitude": -74.60479,
"longitude": 34.229968,
"tags": [
"non",
"nulla",
"nostrud",
"occaecat",
"eiusmod",
"commodo",
"elit"
],
"friends": [
{
"id": 0,
"name": "Raquel James"
},
{
"id": 1,
"name": "Katina Walsh"
},
{
"id": 2,
"name": "Leah Guerrero"
}
],
"greeting": "Hello, Estrada Martinez! You have 3 unread messages.",
"favoriteFruit": "apple"
}
Code
Jackson
Jackson is a popular and powerful library in Java that is used to deal with JSON data.
To use the Jackson library, add the Jackson databind dependency from Maven Repository.
A node in the JSON is represented in the form of JsonNode in Jackson. Hence, if you convert a string JSON to a JSON object, it would return a JsonNode as the root node.
ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();String jsonString = "{\"_id\":\"61055ba08cf4754d7ba5d191\",\"index\":6,\"guid\":\"f74a0878-0dc5-47a4-a7cf-c7ff806765af\",\"isActive\":false,\"balance\":\"$3,211.08\",\"picture\":\"http://placehold.it/32x32\",\"age\":31,\"eyeColor\":\"brown\",\"name\":\"Estrada Martinez\",\"gender\":\"male\",\"company\":\"QUIZKA\",\"email\":\"estradamartinez@quizka.com\",\"phone\":\"+1 (896) 583-3530\",\"address\":\"265 Williams Court, Manila, Wisconsin, 5703\",\"about\":\"Nulla consequat duis minim velit nisi elit deserunt eu sint. In nisi et proident ullamco velit. Amet consequat irure tempor non consequat ad consequat non reprehenderit fugiat nostrud sit. Ex eu irure nostrud fugiat exercitation esse commodo ad id magna id consequat eiusmod.\\r\\n\",\"registered\":\"2018-09-17T04:47:34 -06:-30\",\"latitude\":-74.60479,\"longitude\":34.229968,\"tags\":[\"non\",\"nulla\",\"nostrud\",\"occaecat\",\"eiusmod\",\"commodo\",\"elit\"],\"friends\":[{\"id\":0,\"name\":\"Raquel James\"},{\"id\":1,\"name\":\"Katina Walsh\"},{\"id\":2,\"name\":\"Leah Guerrero\"}],\"greeting\":\"Hello, Estrada Martinez! You have 3 unread messages.\",\"favoriteFruit\":\"apple\"}";JsonNode root = objectMapper.readTree(jsonString);System.out.println(root);
Json Simple
Json Simple is another library that provides basic functionalities as far as JSON processing is concerned.
To use the JSON simple library, add the JSON-simple dependency from Maven Repository.
If you convert a string JSON to a JSON object, it would return a JSONObject, which can also be used to manipulate the data in the JSON.
String jsonString = "{\"_id\":\"61055ba08cf4754d7ba5d191\",\"index\":6,\"guid\":\"f74a0878-0dc5-47a4-a7cf-c7ff806765af\",\"isActive\":false,\"balance\":\"$3,211.08\",\"picture\":\"http://placehold.it/32x32\",\"age\":31,\"eyeColor\":\"brown\",\"name\":\"Estrada Martinez\",\"gender\":\"male\",\"company\":\"QUIZKA\",\"email\":\"estradamartinez@quizka.com\",\"phone\":\"+1 (896) 583-3530\",\"address\":\"265 Williams Court, Manila, Wisconsin, 5703\",\"about\":\"Nulla consequat duis minim velit nisi elit deserunt eu sint. In nisi et proident ullamco velit. Amet consequat irure tempor non consequat ad consequat non reprehenderit fugiat nostrud sit. Ex eu irure nostrud fugiat exercitation esse commodo ad id magna id consequat eiusmod.\\r\\n\",\"registered\":\"2018-09-17T04:47:34 -06:-30\",\"latitude\":-74.60479,\"longitude\":34.229968,\"tags\":[\"non\",\"nulla\",\"nostrud\",\"occaecat\",\"eiusmod\",\"commodo\",\"elit\"],\"friends\":[{\"id\":0,\"name\":\"Raquel James\"},{\"id\":1,\"name\":\"Katina Walsh\"},{\"id\":2,\"name\":\"Leah Guerrero\"}],\"greeting\":\"Hello, Estrada Martinez! You have 3 unread messages.\",\"favoriteFruit\":\"apple\"}";JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();JSONObject jsonObject = (JSONObject) parser.parse(jsonString);System.out.println(jsonObject);
Gson
There are two ways to convert a string JSON to a JSON object using the Gson library:
JsonParserfromJson
To use the Gson library, add the Gson dependency from Maven Repository.
String jsonString = "{\"_id\":\"61055ba08cf4754d7ba5d191\",\"index\":6,\"guid\":\"f74a0878-0dc5-47a4-a7cf-c7ff806765af\",\"isActive\":false,\"balance\":\"$3,211.08\",\"picture\":\"http://placehold.it/32x32\",\"age\":31,\"eyeColor\":\"brown\",\"name\":\"Estrada Martinez\",\"gender\":\"male\",\"company\":\"QUIZKA\",\"email\":\"estradamartinez@quizka.com\",\"phone\":\"+1 (896) 583-3530\",\"address\":\"265 Williams Court, Manila, Wisconsin, 5703\",\"about\":\"Nulla consequat duis minim velit nisi elit deserunt eu sint. In nisi et proident ullamco velit. Amet consequat irure tempor non consequat ad consequat non reprehenderit fugiat nostrud sit. Ex eu irure nostrud fugiat exercitation esse commodo ad id magna id consequat eiusmod.\\r\\n\",\"registered\":\"2018-09-17T04:47:34 -06:-30\",\"latitude\":-74.60479,\"longitude\":34.229968,\"tags\":[\"non\",\"nulla\",\"nostrud\",\"occaecat\",\"eiusmod\",\"commodo\",\"elit\"],\"friends\":[{\"id\":0,\"name\":\"Raquel James\"},{\"id\":1,\"name\":\"Katina Walsh\"},{\"id\":2,\"name\":\"Leah Guerrero\"}],\"greeting\":\"Hello, Estrada Martinez! You have 3 unread messages.\",\"favoriteFruit\":\"apple\"}";JsonObject jsonObject = new JsonParser().parse(jsonString).getAsJsonObject();System.out.println(jsonObject);// Using fromJsonJsonObject jsonObject1 = new Gson().fromJson(jsonString, JsonObject.class);System.out.println(jsonObject1);
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