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CHAPTER 4B JSON Procesing

Chapter IV B provides an overview of JSON and the JSR 353 Java API for processing JSON data. It explains JSON data syntax, including object and array structures, and discusses two processing models: object model and streaming model. The chapter also highlights the use of common classes in JSR 353 for generating and manipulating JSON representations in Java applications.

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CHAPTER 4B JSON Procesing

Chapter IV B provides an overview of JSON and the JSR 353 Java API for processing JSON data. It explains JSON data syntax, including object and array structures, and discusses two processing models: object model and streaming model. The chapter also highlights the use of common classes in JSR 353 for generating and manipulating JSON representations in Java applications.

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CHAPTER IV B: Java APIs for JSON

Processing
Outline:

A brief overview of JSON


Using the JSR 353—Java API for processing JSON

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JSON data syntax
• It is represented by the following two data structures
• An unordered collection of name-value pairs (representing an object):
• The attributes of an object and their values are represented in the name-
value pair format; the name and the value in a pair is separated by a colon (:).
• Names in an object are strings, and values may be of any of the valid JSON
data types such as number, string, Boolean, array, object, or null.
• Each name:value pair in a JSON object is separated by a comma (,).
• The entire object is enclosed in curly braces ({ }).
• For instance, the JSON representation of a department object is as follows:

{"departmentId":10, "departmentName":"IT", "manager":"John Chen"}


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JSON data syntax …
• An ordered collection of values (representing an array):
• Arrays are enclosed in square brackets ([ ]), and their values are
separated by a comma (,).
• Each value in an array may be of a different type, including another
array or an object.
• Example : employees working in a department.

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Json processing Example :emp-
array.json

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Processing JSON data
• Role of the JSON marshalling and unmarshalling components in a
typical Java RESTful web service implementation:

We will
implement
spring boot
REST
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Processing models for JSON data
Processing : reading, writing, querying, and modifying JSON data
A. Object model:
 the entire JSON data is read into memory in a tree format.
 This tree can be traversed, analyzed, or modified with the appropriate
APIs.
 As this approach loads the entire content into the memory first and
then starts parsing, it ends up consuming more memory and CPU
cycles.
 However, this model gives more flexibility while manipulating the
content.

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B. Streaming model:
that data can be read or written in blocks.
This model does not read the entire JSON content into the memory to get started with
parsing; rather, it reads one element at a time.
For each token read, the parser generates appropriate events indicating the type of token,
such as the start or end of an array, or the start or end of the object and attribute values.
A client can process the contents by listening for appropriate events.
The most important point is that instead of letting the parser push the content to the
client (push parser), the client can pull the information from the parser as it needs (pull
parser).
In this model, the client is allowed to skip or stop reading contents in the middle of the
process if it has finished reading the desired elements.
This model is also useful when you write contents to an output source in blocks.

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B. Streaming model when?
• When the data is huge in size and it is not feasible to load the entire
content into the memory for processing the content
• When the partial processing is needed and the data model is not fully
available yet

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Using JSR 353 – Java API for
processing JSON
• Object model API -> Will be covered in class
• Streaming model API -> Home reading

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Processing JSON with JSR 353 object
model APIs : common classes

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Common classes in JSR 353 object
model APIs

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Generating the object model from
the JSON representation
• Example uses the JSON array of the employee objects stored in the
emp-array. json file as an input source.
• The contents of this file are listed under the A sample JSON file
representing employee objects section.
• Let’s convert the JSON content present in the file into a Java object
model

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Step 1: Read the JSON content from the
emp-array.json file and store it in an
appropriate data structure.

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Convert JsonArray elements into
specific object types.

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each JsonObject present in
employeeArray.continue code from
slide 13
• Code iterates over the
JsonArray instance and builds
the Employee instances. Let's
take a closer look at the
JsonArray object to
understand how it stores JSON
data

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Generating the JSON representation
from the object model
• You can use either of the following classes to generate the object
model.
• javax.json.JsonObjectBuilder: This builder class is used for generating
the JSON object model from scratch. This class provides methods to
add the name-value pairs to the object model and to return the final
object.
• javax.json.JsonArrayBuilder: This builder class is used for generating
an array of the JSON objects from scratch. This class provides
methods to add objects or values to the array model and to return the
final array.

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// Creates a
JsonArrayBuilder
instance
Output:

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Home reading:
Processing JSON with JSR 353
streaming APIs

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