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JSON With Java

This document discusses how to encode and decode JSON objects in Java. It covers preparing the environment by installing JSON libraries, how JSON maps to Java entities, examples of encoding a JSON object in Java, and decoding a JSON string into Java objects.

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JSON With Java

This document discusses how to encode and decode JSON objects in Java. It covers preparing the environment by installing JSON libraries, how JSON maps to Java entities, examples of encoding a JSON object in Java, and decoding a JSON string into Java objects.

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JSON with Java

This chapter covers how to encode and decode JSON objects using Java programming
language. Let's start with preparing the environment to start our programming with Java for
JSON.

Environment
Before you start with encoding and decoding JSON using Java, you need to install any of the
JSON modules available. For this tutorial we have downloaded and installed JSON.simple
and have added the location of json-simple-1.1.1.jar file to the environment variable
CLASSPATH.

Mapping between JSON and Java entities


JSON.simple maps entities from the left side to the right side while decoding or parsing, and
maps entities from the right to the left while encoding.

JSON Java

string java.lang.String

number java.lang.Number

true|false java.lang.Boolean

null null

array java.util.List

object java.util.Map

On decoding, the default concrete class of java.util.List is org.json.simple.JSONArray and the


default concrete class of java.util.Map is org.json.simple.JSONObject.

Encoding JSON in Java

Following is a simple example to encode a JSON object using Java JSONObject which is a
subclass of java.util.HashMap. No ordering is provided. If you need the strict ordering of
elements, use JSONValue.toJSONString ( map ) method with ordered map implementation
such as java.util.LinkedHashMap.

import org.json.simple.JSONObject;

class JsonEncodeDemo {
public static void main(String[] args) {
JSONObject obj = new JSONObject();

obj.put("name", "foo");
obj.put("num", new Integer(100));
obj.put("balance", new Double(1000.21));
obj.put("is_vip", new Boolean(true));

System.out.print(obj);
}
}

On compiling and executing the above program the following result will be generated −

{"balance": 1000.21, "num":100, "is_vip":true, "name":"foo"}

Following is another example that shows a JSON object streaming using Java JSONObject −

import org.json.simple.JSONObject;

class JsonEncodeDemo {

public static void main(String[] args) {

JSONObject obj = new JSONObject();

obj.put("name","foo");
obj.put("num",new Integer(100));
obj.put("balance",new Double(1000.21));
obj.put("is_vip",new Boolean(true));

StringWriter out = new StringWriter();


obj.writeJSONString(out);

String jsonText = out.toString();


System.out.print(jsonText);
}
}

On compiling and executing the above program, the following result is generated −

{"balance": 1000.21, "num":100, "is_vip":true, "name":"foo"}

Decoding JSON in Java

The following example makes use of JSONObject and JSONArray where JSONObject is a
java.util.Map and JSONArray is a java.util.List, so you can access them with standard
operations of Map or List.

import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
import org.json.simple.JSONArray;
import org.json.simple.parser.ParseException;
import org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser;

class JsonDecodeDemo {

public static void main(String[] args) {

JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();


String s = "[0,{\"1\":{\"2\":{\"3\":{\"4\":[5,{\"6\":7}]}}}}]";

try{
Object obj = parser.parse(s);
JSONArray array = (JSONArray)obj;

System.out.println("The 2nd element of array");


System.out.println(array.get(1));
System.out.println();

JSONObject obj2 = (JSONObject)array.get(1);


System.out.println("Field \"1\"");
System.out.println(obj2.get("1"));

s = "{}";
obj = parser.parse(s);
System.out.println(obj);

s = "[5,]";
obj = parser.parse(s);
System.out.println(obj);

s = "[5,,2]";
obj = parser.parse(s);
System.out.println(obj);
}catch(ParseException pe) {

System.out.println("position: " + pe.getPosition());


System.out.println(pe);
}
}
}

On compiling and executing the above program, the following result will be generated −

The 2nd element of array


{"1":{"2":{"3":{"4":[5,{"6":7}]}}}}
Field "1"
{"2":{"3":{"4":[5,{"6":7}]}}}
{}
[5]
[5,2]

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