How to access the JSON fields, arrays and nested objects of JsonNode in Java?

A JsonNode is Jackson's tree model for JSON and it can read JSON into a JsonNode instance and write a JsonNode out to JSON. To read JSON into a JsonNode with Jackson by creating ObjectMapper instance and call the readValue() method. We can access a field, array or nested object using the get() method of JsonNode class. We can return a valid string representation using the asText() method and convert the value of the node to a Java int using the asInt() method of JsonNode class.

In the below example, we can access JSON fields, arrays and nested objects of JsonNode.

Example

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.*;
import java.io.*;
public class ParseJSONNodeTest {
   public static void main(String args[]) {
      String jsonStr = "{ \"name\" : \"Raja\", \"age\" : 30," +
                       " \"technologies\" : [\"Java\", \"Scala\", \"Python\"]," +
                       " \"nestedObject\" : { \"field\" : \"value\" } }";
      ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
      try {
         JsonNode node = objectMapper.readValue(jsonStr, JsonNode.class);
         JsonNode nameNode = node.get("name");
         String name = nameNode.asText();
         System.out.println(name);
         JsonNode ageNode = node.get("age");
         int age = ageNode.asInt();
         System.out.println(age);
         JsonNode array = node.get("technologies");
         JsonNode jsonNode = array.get(1);
         String techStr = jsonNode.asText();
         System.out.println(techStr);
         JsonNode child = node.get("nestedObject");
         JsonNode childField = child.get("field");
         String field = childField.asText();
         System.out.println(field);
      } catch (IOException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      }
   }
}

Output

Raja
30
Scala
value