Determine appropriate class based on property existence when reading JSON - java

Assuming I have two types of responses from a service - positive and negative. They have JSON format.
When I use Jackson API to create the corresponding java objects I have to write the code like this:
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
private ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
String json = ... // JSON received from a service
ServiceResponse response = objectMapper.readValue(json, ServiceResponse.class);
// Analyze the response
if (response instanceof PositiveServiceResponse) {
...
}
...
The problem is that both types of responses have nothing in common. There is no "type" property.
Otherwise I could use Vehicle-Car-Truck example from https://www.baeldung.com/jackson-inheritance
Sample positive response:
{
"city": "c",
"street": "s"
}
Negative response:
{
"errorMsg": "error",
"errorCode": "572"
}
The NegativeServiceResponse contains errorCode property. Is it possible to "tell" the Jackson API to create and instance of NegativeServiceResponse class if JSON contains the property, and an instance of PositiveServiceResponse otherwise?
Of course I can parse the JSON using low-level mechanisms (JsonNode etc.), but is there a more elegant solution?

It is possible to do. You need to create a Container class for both positive and negative response. See below, let me know if it works.
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import java.io.IOException;
class Solution {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
objectMapper.enableDefaultTyping();
Positive positive = new Positive(1);
Negative negative = new Negative(-1);
Response response = new Response(positive, negative);
String json = objectMapper.writeValueAsString(response);
Response output = objectMapper.readValue(json, Response.class);
System.out.println(output.negative);
System.out.println(output.positive);
//practically, when you have only either positive or negative
Response response2 = new Response();
response2.setPositive(positive);
String json2 = objectMapper.writeValueAsString(response2);
//or String json2 = "{\"positive\":{\"code\":1}};
System.out.println(json2);
Response output2 = objectMapper.readValue(json2, Response.class);
System.out.println(output2.positive);
System.out.println(output2.negative);
}
}
Output:
Negative{otherCode=-1}
Positive{code=1}
{"positive":{"code":1},"negative":null}
Positive{code=1}
null
Response classes:
class Response {
Positive positive;
Negative negative;
public Response() {
}
public Response(Positive positive, Negative negative) {
this.positive = positive;
this.negative = negative;
}
public boolean isPositive() {
return positive != null;
}
public void setPositive(Positive positive) {
this.positive = positive;
}
public void setNegative(Negative negative) {
this.negative = negative;
}
public Positive getPositive() {
return positive;
}
public Negative getNegative() {
return negative;
}
}
class Positive {
private int code;
public Positive() {
}
public Positive(int code) {
this.code = code;
}
public int getCode() {
return code;
}
#Override
public String toString() {
return "Positive{" +
"code=" + code +
'}';
}
}
class Negative {
private int otherCode;
public Negative() {
}
public Negative(int otherCode) {
this.otherCode = otherCode;
}
public int getOtherCode() {
return otherCode;
}
#Override
public String toString() {
return "Negative{" +
"otherCode=" + otherCode +
'}';
}
}

Assuming you have class hierarhy like following
class ServiceResponse {}
class PositiveServiceResponse extends ServiceResponse { public String city; public String street; }
class NegativeServiceResponse extends ServiceResponse { public String errorMsg; public String errorCode; }
Then you create deserializer:
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.StdDeserializer;
class ServiceResponseDeserializer extends StdDeserializer<ServiceResponse> {
protected ServiceResponseDeserializer() {
super(ServiceResponse.class);
}
#Override
public ServiceResponse deserialize(JsonParser p, DeserializationContext ctxt) throws IOException {
ObjectMapper mapper = (ObjectMapper) p.getCodec();
ObjectNode root = mapper.readTree(p);
if (root.get("errorMsg") != null) { // found negative token
NegativeServiceResponse result = new NegativeServiceResponse();
result.errorCode = root.get("errorCode").asText();
result.errorMsg = root.get("errorMsg").asText();
return result;
// OR (shorter but less efficient due to object-back-to-string conversion)
return mapper.readValue(root.toString(), NegativeServiceResponse.class);
} else {
return mapper.readValue(root.toString(), PositiveServiceResponse.class);
}
}
}
and use like following
#Test
public void testJackson() throws IOException {
SimpleModule module = new SimpleModule("ServiceResponseModule")
.addDeserializer(ServiceResponse.class, new ServiceResponseDeserializer());
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.registerModule(module);
ServiceResponse positive = mapper.readValue(
"{ \"city\": \"c\", \"street\": \"s\" }", ServiceResponse.class);
assertTrue(positive instanceof PositiveServiceResponse);
ServiceResponse negative = mapper.readValue(
"{ \"errorMsg\": \"error\", \"errorCode\": \"572\" }", ServiceResponse.class);
assertTrue(negative instanceof NegativeServiceResponse);
}

Related

Keep part of JSON as String with JacksonDeserializer

I want to keep a part of a JSON as String value.
As far as i know, there is no way with Annotations, but i could not find a way how to get the full Object/Array value as String.
There is a Workaround, which works, by reading it as an Object and instantly write it back as an String by using the ObjectMapper of Jackson.
You can imagine, this is a horrible solution for very big JSONs.
public class DeserializeTest {
private static ObjectMapper mapper;
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
mapper = Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder.json().build();
mapper.findAndRegisterModules();
SimpleModule module = new SimpleModule();
module.addDeserializer(TestClassWrapper.class, new TestDeserializer());
mapper.registerModule(module);
String json = "{\"name\":\"testprop\", \"data\":[{\"prop\":\"test\"},{\"prop\":\"test1\"},{\"prop\":\"test2\"}]}";
TestClassWrapper t = mapper.readValue(json, TestClassWrapper.class);
// later in program, when i know the expected class
TestClass o = unwrap(t, new TypeReference<ArrayList<Test2>>() {});
}
public static class TestClassWrapper {
String name;
String data;
// removed getter and setter
}
public static class TestClass {
String name;
List<Test2> data;
// removed getter and setter
}
public static class Test2 {
String prop;
// removed getter and setter
}
public static class TestDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<TestClassWrapper> {
#Override
public TestClassWrapper deserialize(JsonParser p, DeserializationContext ctxt) throws IOException {
TestClassWrapper t = new TestClassWrapper();
String key = p.getCurrentName();
if (key == null) {
p.nextToken();
key = p.getCurrentName();
}
for (; key != null; key = p.nextFieldName()) {
p.nextToken();
switch (key) {
case "name":
t.name = p.getValueAsString();
break;
case "data":
// what i tried:
System.out.println(p.getText()); // [
System.out.println(p.getValueAsString()); // NULL
System.out.println(p.getCurrentValue()); //NULL
System.out.println(p.getCurrentToken()); // [ TOKEN
System.out.println(p.getParsingContext().getCurrentValue()); // NULL
System.out.println(p.getParsingContext().toString()); // [0]
System.out.println(p.getEmbeddedObject()); // NULL
System.out.println(p.getTextCharacters()); // [
try {
System.out.println(ctxt.readValue(p, String.class)); // MismatchedInputException
} catch (MismatchedInputException e){}
// The only way i could make it work.
// Parse to a object and write it back as string.
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
Iterator<Object> it = p.readValuesAs(Object.class);
while (it.hasNext()) {
sb.append(mapper.writeValueAsString(it.next()));
sb.append(it.hasNext() ? "," : "");
}
t.data = p.getCurrentToken() == JsonToken.END_ARRAY ? "[" + sb.toString() + "]" : sb.toString();
break;
}
}
return t;
}
}
public static TestClass unwrap(TestClassWrapper t, TypeReference targetClass) throws IOException {
TestClass o = new TestClass();
o.name = t.name;
o.data = mapper.readValue(t.data, targetClass);
return o;
}
}
How can i tell the JsonParser object, to just give me the String of the current value?
(For data this would be: "[{"prop":"test"}, {"prop":"test1"}, {"prop":"test2"}]")

GSON: JSON deserialization to variable type (List/String)

At this point it's already an old question and I've probably read every related topic on SO.
But to the point. I need some advice or correction maybe?
For some reason we have generatable Jsons of 2 types:
{"data": {"id": "value"}} and {"data":[{"id": "value"}]}
Object and Array. There are also other params but they doesn't matter here. "id" is differ for every request. Sometimes it's userId, portfolioId etc. So I get "id" and pass it to related var.
For a long time I was working with the first case. And created POJO like this:
Data.class
public class Data {
#SerializedName("id")
#Expose
private String id;
public Data() {
}
public Data(String id) {
super();
this.id = id;
}
protected String getId() {
return id;
}
And I adress "data" paramets via User.class.
#JsonAdapter(UserDeserializer.class)
public Data data;
public Data getData() {
return data;
}
public void setData(Data data) {
this.data = data;
}
public User() {
}
public User(Data data) {
super();
this.data = data;
}
Gson gson = new Gson();
public String getPortfolioList(String tokenId, String userId) {
Call<User> call = apiRequest.getPortfolioList(userId, tokenId);
try {
User newResult = gson.fromJson(String.valueOf(call.execute().body()), User.class);
System.out.println(newResult.getData().getId());
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return getPortfolioId();
}
Deserializer.class
public class UserDeserializer implements JsonDeserializer<User> {
private Type listType = new TypeToken<List<Data>>(){}.getType();
#Override
public User deserialize(JsonElement json, Type type, JsonDeserializationContext context) throws JsonParseException {
User user = new User();
JsonElement jsonElement;
if (json.isJsonArray()) {
jsonElement = json.getAsJsonArray();
user.data = context.deserialize(jsonElement,listType);
// user.data = new Gson().fromJson(jsonElement, new TypeToken<List<Data>>() {}.getType());
} else {
jsonElement = json.getAsJsonObject();
user.data = context.deserialize(jsonElement, Data.class);
// user.setData(new Gson().fromJson(jsonElement, new TypeToken<Data>() {}.getType()));
}
return user;
}
}
Gson builder in BaseApi class just in case:
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().registerTypeAdapter(UserDeserializer.class, new UserDeserializer()).setLenient().create();
Without custom deserialization and Array JSON issue this would work perfectly. But now I have to determine "data" 's exact type I get.
In above case I get java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.ArrayList cannot be cast to auto.Rest.Data
I assume I have to create another Data class (for example there will be DataObject & DataArray) and describe every parameter as I did before in Data.class to get this work? I think I do something wrong during deserialization but I'm not sure where tbh.
Or am I wrong and it is possible to invoke Data as List and Data as an Object of the same class?
I'm working on this for several days already(?) and was thinking about use generics instead of Gson help, yeah, I'm desperate. So any help appreciated.
if there is always one object, just add
json.getAsJsonArray().get(0);
public class UserDeserializer implements JsonDeserializer<User> {
private Type listType = new TypeToken<List<Data>>(){}.getType();
#Override
public User deserialize(JsonElement json, Type type, JsonDeserializationContext context) throws JsonParseException {
User user = new User();
JsonElement jsonElement;
if (json.isJsonArray()) {
jsonElement = json.getAsJsonArray().get(0);
user.data = context.deserialize(jsonElement,listType);
// user.data = new Gson().fromJson(jsonElement, new TypeToken<List<Data>>() {}.getType());
} else {
jsonElement = json.getAsJsonObject();
user.data = context.deserialize(jsonElement, Data.class);
// user.setData(new Gson().fromJson(jsonElement, new TypeToken<Data>() {}.getType()));
}
return user;
}
}
if there are more objects, change field data to the list
public class UserDeserializer implements JsonDeserializer<User> {
private Type listType = new TypeToken<List<Data>>(){}.getType();
#Override
public User deserialize(JsonElement json, Type type, JsonDeserializationContext context) throws JsonParseException {
User user = new User();
JsonElement jsonElement;
if (json.isJsonArray()) {
jsonElement = json.getAsJsonArray();
user.data = context.deserialize(jsonElement,listType);
// user.data = new Gson().fromJson(jsonElement, new TypeToken<List<Data>>() {}.getType());
} else {
jsonElement = json.getAsJsonObject();
List<Data> data = new ArrayList<Data>();
data.add(context.deserialize(jsonElement, Data.class)) ;
user.data = data ;
// user.setData(new Gson().fromJson(jsonElement, new TypeToken<Data>() {}.getType()));
}
return user;
}
}
and change User.class field data to List
public List<Data> data;
this is a similar topic in kotlin language link
If you always have object or one-element array you can write custom deserialiser as below:
class OneOrElementJsonDeserializer<T> implements JsonDeserializer<T> {
#Override
public T deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT, JsonDeserializationContext context) throws JsonParseException {
if (json instanceof JsonArray) {
final JsonArray array = (JsonArray) json;
final int size = array.size();
if (size == 0) {
return null;
}
return context.deserialize(array.get(0), typeOfT);
}
return context.deserialize(json, typeOfT);
}
}
Your example model after simplification looks like below:
class User {
#JsonAdapter(OneOrElementJsonDeserializer.class)
private Data data;
public User() {
}
public User(Data data) {
super();
this.data = data;
}
public Data getData() {
return data;
}
public void setData(Data data) {
this.data = data;
}
#Override
public String toString() {
return "User{" +
"data=" + data +
'}';
}
}
class Data {
private String id;
protected String getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(String id) {
this.id = id;
}
#Override
public String toString() {
return "Data{" +
"id='" + id + '\'' +
'}';
}
}
Example usage:
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
import com.google.gson.JsonArray;
import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContext;
import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializer;
import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
import com.google.gson.JsonParseException;
import com.google.gson.annotations.JsonAdapter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
public class GsonApp {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
File jsonFile = new File("./resource/test.json").getAbsoluteFile();
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder()
.setPrettyPrinting()
.create();
User root = gson.fromJson(new FileReader(jsonFile), User.class);
System.out.println(root);
}
}
Above code for below JSON payload:
{
"data": [
{
"id": "c87ca3fe85781007869b83f"
}
]
}
prints:
User{data=Data{id='c87ca3fe85781007869b83f'}}
And for object case JSON payload:
{
"data": {
"id": "c87ca3fe85781007869b83f"
}
}
prints:
User{data=Data{id='c87ca3fe85781007869b83f'}}
In case your property could contain JSON object or multi-element array see my answer to this question Mapping Json Array to Java Models. There is implemented deserialiser which handle cases like this.

Get api param from json file java with arrays

I have a json a file that doesnt contain only my api i am new to json and trying to get my api parameters from the file
"operators": {
"tez" : {
"api": "www.my-tour.com/search/getResult",
"parameters": [
{
"country": "Canada",
"queryParameters": {
"priceMin": ["0"],
"priceMax":["150000"],
"currency":["5561"],
"nightsMin":[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13],
"nightsMax":[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13]
In my app operator is just simple the company that owns the api so i have many operators so "tez" is the name of the company and below is its api and param
#Override
public JsonObject fetchData(String url) {
Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
calendar.setTime(new Date());
calendar.add(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 20);
for (int i = 1; i <= 180; i++) {
String formattedDate = dateFormat.format(calendar);
url += "&after=" + formattedDate + "&before=" + formattedDate;
// how can i get the api iteratively to get all api param
JsonObject json = new JsonObject().getJsonObject("tez");
// TODO call eternal API here
JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
JsonObject a = null;
try {
FileReader fileReader = new FileReader("\\home\\user\\MyProjects\\MicroserviceBoilerPlate\\src\\config\\local_file.json");
a = (JsonObject) parser.parse(fileReader);
} catch (Exception e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
}
This above is what i am came up with but its not correct im not able to access the json file and how can i iterate through the parameters so i can add them to the api
www.my-tour.com/search/getResult?priceMin=0&priceMax=150000&currency=+value &nightsMin= + value &nightsMax=+values etc
Note: This is a vertx app and i am using JsonObject and other Json specific api's
You could just make an object of the JSON properties in the file
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
import java.util.List;
#JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class TezModel {
public Operators operators;
public String getApi() {
return operators.tez.api;
}
public List<String> getPriceMin() {
return operators.tez.parameters.get(0).queryParameters.priceMin;
}
public List<String> getPriceMax() {
return operators.tez.parameters.get(0).queryParameters.priceMax;
}
public List<String> getCurrency() {
return operators.tez.parameters.get(0).queryParameters.currency;
}
public List<Integer> getNightsMin() {
return operators.tez.parameters.get(0).queryParameters.nightsMin;
}
public List<Integer> getNightsMax() {
return operators.tez.parameters.get(0).queryParameters.nightsMax;
}
#JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public static class Operators {
public Tez tez;
}
#JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public static class Tez {
public String api;
public List<Parameters> parameters;
}
#JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public static class Parameters {
public String country;
public QueryParameters queryParameters;
}
#JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public static class QueryParameters {
public List<String> priceMin;
public List<String> priceMax;
public List<String> currency;
public List<Integer> nightsMin;
public List<Integer> nightsMax;
}
}
And then you could add your parameters to a string using jackson databind
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
TezModel tezModel = mapper.readValue(new File("local_file.json"), TezModel.class);
String api = tezModel.getApi()+ "+priceMin="
+ tezModel.getPriceMin().get(0)
+ "&priceMax=" + tezModel.getPriceMax().get(0)
+ "&currency=+" + tezModel.getCurrency().get(0)
+ "nightsMin=" + tezModel.getNightsMin().get(0)
+ "nightsMax=" + tezModel.getNightsMax().get(0);
System.out.println(api);
}

JSON String to Java String

I have these JSON String:
{
"Results": {
"output1": {
"type": "table",
"value": {
"ColumnNames": ["userId", "documentId", "Scored Labels", "Scored Probabilities"],
"ColumnTypes": ["String", "String", "Boolean", "Double"],
"Values": [["100213199594809000000", "1Ktol-SWvAh8pnHG2O7HdPrfbEVZWX3Vf2YIPYXA_8gI", "False", "0.375048756599426"], ["103097844766994000000", "1jYsTPJH8gaIiATix9x34Ekcj31ifJMkPNb0RmxnuGxs", "True", "0.753859758377075"]]
}
}
}
}
And I want to have only the ColumnNames and the Values. I have tried it with something like this:
Map<String,Object> map = mapper.readValue(filename, Map.class);
String CN = (String) map.get("ColumnNames");
But then I get the following error:
Exception in thread "main" org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParseException: Unexpected character ('A' (code 65)): expected a valid value (number, String, array, object, 'true', 'false' or 'null')
at [Source: java.io.StringReader#64232b15; line: 1, column: 2]`
I've worked only few times with JSON. Can anybody help me here?
The best case for me would be something like this, which I've done in another case:
String uId = (String) attr.get("userId");
Is it possible?
So now I've done this:
I try it like this:
public class ClientPOJO {
private String userId;
private String documentId;
public String getuserId() {
return userId;
}
public void setuserId(String userId) {
this.userId = userId;
}
public String getdocumentId() {
return documentId;
}
public void setdocumentId(String documentId) {
this.documentId = documentId;
}
}
and then:
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
ClientPOJO clientes= mapper.readValue(filename, ClientPOJO.class);
String uid = clientes.getuserId();
But now when I make a Prtinout I'll get the same error like before:
Exception in thread "main" org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParseException: Unexpected character ('A' (code 65)): expected a valid value (number, String, array, object, 'true', 'false' or 'null')
at [Source: java.io.StringReader#7a6eb29d; line: 1, column: 2]
Java- Convert JSON string into string / integer / Object
String jsonString = "{"username":"Gajender"}";
org.json.JSONObject jsonObj =new JSONObject(jsonString);
String name = (String) jsonObj.get("username").toString();
Below is an example to illustrate a generic approach to solve your problem ( based on Jackson library). You may like to enhance the solution to meet your all requirements.
Comments inlined.
package com.stackoverflow;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import org.junit.Test;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
// Junit class
public class TableDeserExample {
// sample input
String inputJson = "{\n" +
" \"Results\": {\n" +
" \"output1\": {\n" +
" \"type\": \"table\",\n" +
" \"value\": {\n" +
" \"ColumnNames\": [\"userId\", \"documentId\", \"Scored Labels\", \"Scored Probabilities\"],\n" +
" \"ColumnTypes\": [\"String\", \"String\", \"Boolean\", \"Double\"],\n" +
" \"Values\": [[\"100213199594809000000\", \"1Ktol-SWvAh8pnHG2O7HdPrfbEVZWX3Vf2YIPYXA_8gI\", \"False\", \"0.375048756599426\"], [\"103097844766994000000\", \"1jYsTPJH8gaIiATix9x34Ekcj31ifJMkPNb0RmxnuGxs\", \"True\", \"0.753859758377075\"]]\n"
+
" }\n" +
" }\n" +
" }\n" +
"}";
// POJO to map the Json structure. You may want to make it generalize based
// on field "type"
// (https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-docs/wiki/JacksonPolymorphicDeserialization)
public static class Result {
private String type;
private TableResult value;
public String getType() {
return this.type;
}
public void setType(String type) {
this.type = type;
}
public void setValue(TableResult value) {
this.value = value;
}
public TableResult getValue() {
return this.value;
}
}
// Pojo for table result
public static class TableResult {
private List<String> columnNames;
private List<String> columnTypes;
private List<Object[]> values;
#JsonProperty("ColumnNames")
public List<String> getColumnNames() {
return this.columnNames;
}
public void setColumnNames(List<String> columnNames) {
this.columnNames = columnNames;
}
#JsonProperty("ColumnTypes")
public List<String> getColumnTypes() {
return this.columnTypes;
}
public void setColumnTypes(List<String> columnTypes) {
this.columnTypes = columnTypes;
}
#JsonProperty("Values")
public List<Object[]> getValues() {
return this.values;
}
public void setValues(List<Object[]> values) {
this.values = values;
}
}
// Top level Json POJO
public static class ResultContainer {
private Map<String, Result> results;
#JsonProperty("Results")
public Map<String, Result> getResults() {
return this.results;
}
public void setResults(Map<String, Result> results) {
this.results = results;
}
}
// A contract to map the result "values" to the expected object
public static interface ResultMapper<T> {
T map(TableResult map, Object[] row);
}
// Basic implementation for mapping user object from json "values[i]" array
public static class UserTableResultMapper implements ResultMapper<User> {
#Override
public User map(TableResult result, Object[] row) {
User user = new User();
// Here use any mapper logic based on column name
// Retrieved from result object.
// Below are for illustration only
user.setId(String.valueOf(row[0]));
user.setDocumentId(String.valueOf(row[1]));
return user;
}
}
// A result reader class
public static class ResultReader<T> implements Iterable<T> {
private TableResult result;
private ResultMapper<T> mapper;
public ResultReader(TableResult result, ResultMapper<T> mapper) {
this.result = result;
this.mapper = mapper;
}
#Override
public Iterator<T> iterator() {
final Iterator<Object[]> itr = result.getValues().iterator();
return new Iterator<T>() {
#Override
public void remove() {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
#Override
public T next() {
Object[] values = itr.next();
return mapper.map(result, values);
}
#Override
public boolean hasNext() {
return itr.hasNext();
}
};
};
}
public static class User {
private String id;
private String documentId;
// and others
public String getId() {
return this.id;
}
public void setDocumentId(String documentId) {
this.documentId = documentId;
}
public void setId(String id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getDocumentId() {
return this.documentId;
}
}
#Test
public void simpleTest() throws Exception {
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
ResultContainer file = mapper.readValue(inputJson, ResultContainer.class);
Result result = file.getResults().get("output1");
ResultReader<User> userResultReader = new ResultReader<>(result.getValue(), new UserTableResultMapper());
for (User user : userResultReader) {
System.out.println(user.getId() + " : " + user.getDocumentId());
}
}
}
If you know exactly the structure of your json (like the json you have post) then you can using Gson to get your object like this:
JsonParser parser = new JsonParser();
JsonObject json = (JsonObject) parser.parse("your_json_string_here");
String column = json.get("Results").getAsJsonObject().get("output1").getAsJsonObject().get("value").getAsJsonObject().get("ColumnNames").getAsJsonArray().toString();
String value = json.get("Results").getAsJsonObject().get("output1").getAsJsonObject().get("value").getAsJsonObject().get("Values").getAsJsonArray().toString();
System.out.println(column);
System.out.println(value);
If you need some things more generic then you can parse your json string to a HashMap<String, Object> then using recursion to read the HashMap and get the value you want.
Example (in my code, the type of Map will corresponding to a Json Object, type of List will corresponding to the Array in Json string):
Type type = new TypeToken<HashMap<String, Object>>() {}.getType();
Gson gson = new Gson();
HashMap<String, Object> map = gson.fromJson("your_json_string_here", type);
for (String key : map.keySet()) {
Object obj = map.get(key);
if (obj instanceof List) {
for (Object o : (List) obj) {
if (o instanceof Map) {
loop((Map) o);
} else {
System.out.println(key + " : " + o);
}
}
} else if (obj instanceof Map) {
loop((Map) obj);
} else {
System.out.println(key + " : " + obj);
}
}
}
private static void loop(Map<String, Object> map) {
for (String key : map.keySet()) {
Object obj = map.get(key);
if (obj instanceof List) {
for (Object o : (List) obj) {
if (o instanceof Map) {
loop((Map) o);
} else {
System.out.println(key + " : " + o);
}
}
} else if (obj instanceof Map) {
loop((Map) obj);
} else {
System.out.println(key + " : " + obj);
}
}
}
Neither Jackson nor any other library will parse the Values array into objects with client data like your POJO. You can achieve this by getting the raw tree of data in this JSON and constructing objects by iterating over the Values array inside this tree. Assuming the order of ColumnNames is fixed then you can parse with Jackson like this:
final ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
final JsonNode tree = mapper.readTree(json);
final JsonNode values = tree.findValue("Values");
final List<ClientPOJO> clients = new ArrayList<>();
for (JsonNode node : values) {
final ClientPOJO client = new ClientPOJO();
client.setUserId(node.get(0).asText());
client.setDocumentId(node.get(1).asText());
client.setScoredLabels(node.get(2).asBoolean());
client.setScoredProbabilities(node.get(3).asDouble());
clients.add(client);
}
Docs for JsonNode. Basically with findValue you can get another node deep into the tree, with get you can get array elements by index and with asText etc you parse a value in JSON into the appropriate type in Java.
Since you seem to be flexible in choice of JSON parsing library I would suggest Jackson 2 from com.fasterxml instead of Jackson 1 from org.codehaus that you tried.

Converting Java objects to JSON with Jackson

I want my JSON to look like this:
{
"information": [{
"timestamp": "xxxx",
"feature": "xxxx",
"ean": 1234,
"data": "xxxx"
}, {
"timestamp": "yyy",
"feature": "yyy",
"ean": 12345,
"data": "yyy"
}]
}
Code so far:
import java.util.List;
public class ValueData {
private List<ValueItems> information;
public ValueData(){
}
public List<ValueItems> getInformation() {
return information;
}
public void setInformation(List<ValueItems> information) {
this.information = information;
}
#Override
public String toString() {
return String.format("{information:%s}", information);
}
}
and
public class ValueItems {
private String timestamp;
private String feature;
private int ean;
private String data;
public ValueItems(){
}
public ValueItems(String timestamp, String feature, int ean, String data){
this.timestamp = timestamp;
this.feature = feature;
this.ean = ean;
this.data = data;
}
public String getTimestamp() {
return timestamp;
}
public void setTimestamp(String timestamp) {
this.timestamp = timestamp;
}
public String getFeature() {
return feature;
}
public void setFeature(String feature) {
this.feature = feature;
}
public int getEan() {
return ean;
}
public void setEan(int ean) {
this.ean = ean;
}
public String getData() {
return data;
}
public void setData(String data) {
this.data = data;
}
#Override
public String toString() {
return String.format("{timestamp:%s,feature:%s,ean:%s,data:%s}", timestamp, feature, ean, data);
}
}
I just missing the part how I can convert the Java object to JSON with Jackson:
public static void main(String[] args) {
// CONVERT THE JAVA OBJECT TO JSON HERE
System.out.println(json);
}
My Question is: Are my classes correct? Which instance do I have to call and how that I can achieve this JSON output?
To convert your object in JSON with Jackson:
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter;
ObjectWriter ow = new ObjectMapper().writer().withDefaultPrettyPrinter();
String json = ow.writeValueAsString(object);
I know this is old (and I am new to java), but I ran into the same problem. And the answers were not as clear to me as a newbie... so I thought I would add what I learned.
I used a third-party library to aid in the endeavor: org.codehaus.jackson
All of the downloads for this can be found here.
For base JSON functionality, you need to add the following jars to your project's libraries:
jackson-mapper-asl
and
jackson-core-asl
Choose the version your project needs. (Typically you can go with the latest stable build).
Once they are imported in to your project's libraries, add the following import lines to your code:
import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerationException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
With the java object defined and assigned values that you wish to convert to JSON and return as part of a RESTful web service
User u = new User();
u.firstName = "Sample";
u.lastName = "User";
u.email = "sampleU#example.com";
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
try {
// convert user object to json string and return it
return mapper.writeValueAsString(u);
}
catch (JsonGenerationException | JsonMappingException e) {
// catch various errors
e.printStackTrace();
}
The result should looks like this:
{"firstName":"Sample","lastName":"User","email":"sampleU#example.com"}
Just follow any of these:
For jackson it should work:
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
return mapper.writeValueAsString(object);
//will return json in string
For gson it should work:
Gson gson = new Gson();
return Response.ok(gson.toJson(yourClass)).build();
You could do this:
String json = new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(yourObjectHere);
This might be useful:
objectMapper.writeValue(new File("c:\\employee.json"), employee);
// display to console
Object json = objectMapper.readValue(
objectMapper.writeValueAsString(employee), Object.class);
System.out.println(objectMapper.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter()
.writeValueAsString(json));
You can use Google Gson like this
UserEntity user = new UserEntity();
user.setUserName("UserName");
user.setUserAge(18);
Gson gson = new Gson();
String jsonStr = gson.toJson(user);
Well, even the accepted answer does not exactly output what op has asked for. It outputs the JSON string but with " characters escaped. So, although might be a little late, I am answering hopeing it will help people! Here is how I do it:
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
JsonGenerator jgen = new JsonFactory().createGenerator(writer);
jgen.setCodec(new ObjectMapper());
jgen.writeObject(object);
jgen.close();
System.out.println(writer.toString());
Note: To make the most voted solution work, attributes in the POJO have to be public or have a public getter/setter:
By default, Jackson 2 will only work with fields that are either
public, or have a public getter method – serializing an entity that
has all fields private or package private will fail.
Not tested yet, but I believe that this rule also applies for other JSON libs like google Gson.
public class JSONConvector {
public static String toJSON(Object object) throws JSONException, IllegalAccessException {
String str = "";
Class c = object.getClass();
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject();
for (Field field : c.getDeclaredFields()) {
field.setAccessible(true);
String name = field.getName();
String value = String.valueOf(field.get(object));
jsonObject.put(name, value);
}
System.out.println(jsonObject.toString());
return jsonObject.toString();
}
public static String toJSON(List list ) throws JSONException, IllegalAccessException {
JSONArray jsonArray = new JSONArray();
for (Object i : list) {
String jstr = toJSON(i);
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(jstr);
jsonArray.put(jsonArray);
}
return jsonArray.toString();
}
}

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