In this post, we will see how to convert JSON into Java object using the Jackson library.
Before getting started, let's define the required Jackson API dependencies.
Dependencies
Let’s first add the following dependencies to the pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
<version>2.9.8</version>
</dependency>
This dependency will also transitively add the following libraries to the classpath:
- jackson-annotations-2.9.8.jar
- jackson-core-2.9.8.jar
- jackson-databind-2.9.8.jar
Always use the latest versions on the Maven central repository for Jackson databind.
Converting JSON to Java Object
Here is an example of converting JSON to Java object using the ObjectMapper.readValue() methods. In this example, we are reading JSON from external "post.json" file and converting it into Java Object:
Post.java
package net.javaguides.jackson.pojotojson;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;
public class Post {
private Long id;
private String title;
private String description;
private String content;
private Date postedAt = new Date();
private Date lastUpdatedAt = new Date();
private Set < Tag > tags = new HashSet < > ();
public Post() {
}
public Post(String title, String description, String content) {
this.title = title;
this.description = description;
this.content = content;
}
public Long getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(Long id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getTitle() {
return title;
}
public void setTitle(String title) {
this.title = title;
}
public String getDescription() {
return description;
}
public void setDescription(String description) {
this.description = description;
}
public String getContent() {
return content;
}
public void setContent(String content) {
this.content = content;
}
public Date getPostedAt() {
return postedAt;
}
public void setPostedAt(Date postedAt) {
this.postedAt = postedAt;
}
public Date getLastUpdatedAt() {
return lastUpdatedAt;
}
public void setLastUpdatedAt(Date lastUpdatedAt) {
this.lastUpdatedAt = lastUpdatedAt;
}
public Set < Tag > getTags() {
return tags;
}
public void setTags(Set < Tag > tags) {
this.tags = tags;
}
}
Tag.java
package net.javaguides.jackson.pojotojson;
public class Tag {
private Long id;
private String name;
public Tag() {
}
public Tag(Long id, String name) {
super();
this.id = id;
this.name = name;
}
public Tag(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public Long getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(Long id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
}
JacksonJsonToPojo.java
package net.javaguides.jackson.jsontopojo;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Iterator;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import net.javaguides.jackson.pojotojson.Post;
import net.javaguides.jackson.pojotojson.Tag;
/**
* Convert JSON to Java object using Jackson
* @author Ramesh Fadatare
*
*/
public class JacksonJsonToPojo {
public static void main(String[] args) throws JsonParseException, JsonMappingException, IOException {
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
// Read JSON file and convert to java object
InputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream("post.json");
Post post = mapper.readValue(fileInputStream, Post.class);
fileInputStream.close();
// print post object
System.out.println("Printing post details");
System.out.println(post.getId());
System.out.println(post.getTitle());
System.out.println(post.getDescription());
System.out.println(post.getContent());
System.out.println(post.getLastUpdatedAt());
System.out.println(post.getPostedAt());
// print tags of this post
System.out.println("Printing tag details of post :: " + post.getTitle());
for (Iterator < Tag > iterator = post.getTags().iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {
Tag tag = (Tag) iterator.next();
System.out.println(tag.getId());
System.out.println(tag.getName());
}
}
}
Output:
Printing post details
100
Jackson JSON API Guide
Post about Jackson JSON API
HTML content here
Tue Apr 23 18:51:08 IST 2019
Tue Apr 23 18:51:08 IST 2019
Printing tag details of post :: Jackson JSON API Guide
2
Jackson
1
Java
3
JSON
Jackson
Java
JSON
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