This tutorial shows how to convert JSON to JAVA map using Jackson’s data binding. In the previous tutorials, I have explained converting Java Objects/Arrays to JSON String using Jackson API. You can refer below tutorials.
Serialization – How to create JSON Payload from Java Object – Jackson API
Deserialization – How to convert JSON to Java Object using Jackson API
How to create JSON Array Payload using POJO – Jackson API
How to create Nested JSON Object using POJO – Jackson API
To start with, we need to add Jackson Maven Dependency to the POM. Always add the latest version of Jackson dependency to your project.
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
<version>2.13.0</version>
</dependency
Deserialization converts a stream of bytes into a Java object that we can use in code.
We use Jackson’s ObjectMapper, as we did for serialization, using readValue() to process the input. Also, note our use of Jackson’s TypeReference, which we’ll use in all of our deserialization examples to describe the type of our destination Map.
@Test
public void DeserializationMapTest() throws JsonProcessingException {
String employeeString =
"{\r\n"
+ " \"firstName\" : \"Deserialization\",\r\n"
+ " \"lastName\" : \"Test\",\r\n"
+ " \"age\" : 25,\r\n"
+ " \"salary\" : 50000.0,\r\n"
+ " \"designation\" : \"Manager\",\r\n"
+ " \"contactNumber\" : \"+918882211111\",\r\n"
+ " \"emailId\" : \"abc@test.com\",\r\n"
+ " \"gender\" : \"female\",\r\n"
+ " \"maritalStatus\" : \"single\"\r\n"
+ " }";
Map<String, String> resultMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
// Converting a JSON to Java Map
try {
resultMap = mapper.readValue(employeeString, new TypeReference<HashMap<String, String>>() {
});
} catch (JsonMappingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println("Output Map :" + resultMap);
}
Output
We can get the JSON from a file and convert it to a Hash Map too. Below is an example of the same.
@Test
public void PayloadFromFile() {
String userDir = System.getProperty("user.dir");
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
// Converting Employee JSON string to Employee class object
Map<String, Object> empMap;
try {
empMap = mapper.readValue(new File(userDir + "\\src\\test\\resources\\JSONFromMap.json"),
new TypeReference<Map<String, Object>>() {
});
System.out.println("Gender : " + empMap.get("gender"));
System.out.println("DOB : " + empMap.get("DOB"));
System.out.println("Name : " + empMap.get("name"));
System.out.println("ContactNumber : " + empMap.get("contactNumber"));
System.out.println("SkillSet : " + empMap.get("skillset"));
} catch (StreamReadException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (DatabindException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Output
We are done! Congratulations on making it through this tutorial and hope you found it useful! Happy Learning!!
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