In this example we are going to see how to conver a Java Object to JSON representation using Jackson. Jackson in a high performance JSON parser and processor java project.
1. Jackson Library
The complete Jackson library consists of 6 jar files that are used for many diffident operation. In this example we are going to need just one, mapper-asl.jar. If you want to install the full library to your project you can download and use jackson-all-*.jar that includes all the jars. You can download them from the Jackson Download Page.
If your using Maven in your project you just have to add the following repository and dependency in your pom.xml.
<repositories> <repository> <id>codehaus</id> <url>http://repository.codehaus.org/org/codehaus</url> </repository> </repositories> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId> <artifactId>jackson-all-*</artifactId> <version>*</version> </dependency> </dependencies>
2. Java Object
This is the class we are going to use for the demonstration:
Student.java:
package com.javacodegeeks.java.core;
public class Student {
private int id;
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
private int age;
public Student(){
}
public Student(String fname, String lname, int age, int id){
this.firstName = fname;
this.lastName = lname;
this.age = age;
this.id = id;
}
public void setFirstName(String fname) {
this.firstName = fname;
}
public String getFirstName() {
return this.firstName;
}
public void setLastName(String lname) {
this.lastName = lname;
}
public String getLastName() {
return this.lastName;
}
public void setAge(int age) {
this.age = age;
}
public int getAge() {
return this.age;
}
public void setId(int id){
this.id = id;
}
public int getId(){
return this.id;
}
@Override
public String toString() {
return new StringBuffer(" First Name : ").append(this.firstName)
.append(" Last Name : ").append(this.lastName).append(" Age : ").append(this.age).append(" ID : ").append(this.id).toString();
}
}3. Convert Java Object to JSON represenation
JacksonJSONExample.java:
package com.javacodegeeks.java.core;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerationException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
public class JacksonJSONExample {
private static final String jsonFilePath= "C:\\Users\\nikos7\\Desktop\\filesForExamples\\student.json";
public static void main(String[] args) {
Student student = new Student("Jacl", "Freeman", 32, 100);
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
try {
File jsonFile = new File(jsonFilePath);
mapper.writeValue(jsonFile, student);
//System.out.println(mapper.writeValueAsString(student));
} catch (JsonGenerationException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
} catch (JsonMappingException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}student.json:
{"id":100,"firstName":"Jacl","lastName":"Freeman","age":32}4. Convert a JSON representation to Java Object
JSONToJavaObjectJacksonExample.java:
package com.javacodegeeks.java.core;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerationException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
public class JSONToJavaObjectJacksonExample {
private static final String jsonFilePath= "C:\\Users\\nikos7\\Desktop\\filesForExamples\\student.json";
public static void main(String[] args) {
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
try {
File jsonFile = new File(jsonFilePath);
Student student = mapper.readValue(jsonFile, Student.class);
System.out.println(student);
} catch (JsonGenerationException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (JsonMappingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}Output:
First Name : Jacl Last Name : Freeman Age : 32 ID : 100
This was an example on how to convert Java Object To / From JSON using Jackson.
