How to read and write JSON in Java using org.json

7 years ago Lalit Bhagtani 0

How to read and write JSON in Java :- If you had worked on restful web services, then you would have faced a problem of reading and writing JSON in java. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation, it is language independent, easy to understand, lightweight data-interchange format. 

Let’s see how to read and write JSON in java :- 

Sample JSON

JSON for book type :-

{
    "id": 01,
    "language": "Java",
    "edition": "third",
    "author": "Herbert Schildt",
    "chapters": ["chapter 1","chapter 2","chapter 3"]
} 

Org.JSON (Maven) :-

This library is very easy to use, if you don’t need object deserialization but to get an attribute use this library.

Read :- Let’s see how to read JSON in Java :-

package com.codedestine;

import java.util.Iterator;

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONObject;

public class JsonUtility {

   public static String json = "{ \"id\": 01, \"language\": \"Java\", \"edition\": \"third\", \"author\": \"Herbert Schildt\", \"chapters\": [\"chapter 1\",\"chapter 2\",\"chapter 3\"] }";
 
   public void readJson(String json){
     JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject(json);
 
     String id = jsonObj.getString("id");
     System.out.println(id);
 
     String language = jsonObj.getString("language");
     System.out.println(language);
 
     String edition = jsonObj.getString("edition");
     System.out.println(edition);
 
     String author = jsonObj.getString("author");
     System.out.println(author);
 
     JSONArray chapters = (JSONArray) jsonObj.get("chapters");
     Iterator<Object> iterator = chapters.iterator();
     while (iterator.hasNext()) {
        System.out.println(iterator.next());
     }
   }
 
   public static void main(String args[]){
     JsonUtility utility = new JsonUtility();
     //read
     utility.readJson(json);
   }

}

Result :- 

How to read and write JSON in Java

Write :- Let’s see how to write JSON in Java :-

package com.codedestine;

import java.util.Iterator;

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONObject;

public class JsonUtility {

   public static String json = "{ \"id\": 01, \"language\": \"Java\", \"edition\": \"third\", \"author\": \"Herbert Schildt\", \"chapters\": [\"chapter 1\",\"chapter 2\",\"chapter 3\"] }";
 
   public void writeJson(){ 
     JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject();
 
     jsonObj.put("id", 2);
     jsonObj.put("language", "english");
     jsonObj.put("edition", "fourth");
     jsonObj.put("author", "edison");

     JSONArray list = new JSONArray();
     list.put("chapter 1");
     list.put("chapter 2");
     list.put("chapter 3");
     jsonObj.put("chapters", list);
 
     System.out.println(jsonObj.toString(2));
   }
 
   public static void main(String args[]){
     JsonUtility utility = new JsonUtility();
     //write
     utility.writeJson();
   }

}

Result :- 

How to read and write JSON in Java

You can also check How to parse JSON in Java using fasterXML / jackson-databind lib

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