How to convert jsonString to JSONObject in Java

I have String variable called jsonString:

{"phonetype":"N95","cat":"WP"}

Now I want to convert it into JSON Object. I searched more on Google but didn't get any expected answers!

Using org.json library:

try {
     JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject("{\"phonetype\":\"N95\",\"cat\":\"WP\"}");
}catch (JSONException err){
     Log.d("Error", err.toString());
}
    

To anyone still looking for an answer:

JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
JSONObject json = (JSONObject) parser.parse(stringToParse);

You can use google-gson. Details:

Object Examples

class BagOfPrimitives {
  private int value1 = 1;
  private String value2 = "abc";
  private transient int value3 = 3;
  BagOfPrimitives() {
    // no-args constructor
  }
}

(Serialization)

BagOfPrimitives obj = new BagOfPrimitives();
Gson gson = new Gson();
String json = gson.toJson(obj); 
==> json is {"value1":1,"value2":"abc"}

Note that you can not serialize objects with circular references since that will result in infinite recursion.

(Deserialization)

BagOfPrimitives obj2 = gson.fromJson(json, BagOfPrimitives.class);  
==> obj2 is just like obj

Another example for Gson:

Gson is easy to learn and implement, you need to know is the following two methods:

-> toJson() – convert java object to JSON format

-> fromJson() – convert JSON into java object

import com.google.gson.Gson;

public class TestObjectToJson {
  private int data1 = 100;
  private String data2 = "hello";

  public static void main(String[] args) {
      TestObjectToJson obj = new TestObjectToJson();
      Gson gson = new Gson();

      //convert java object to JSON format
      String json = gson.toJson(obj);

      System.out.println(json);
  }

}

Output

{"data1":100,"data2":"hello"}

Resources:

Google Gson Project Home Page

Gson User Guide

Example

There are various Java JSON serializers and deserializers linked from the JSON home page.

As of this writing, there are these 22:

>

• https://github.com/stleary/JSON-java">JSON-java</a>.</li>
• https://github.com/billdavidson/JSONUtil">JSONUtil</a>.</li>
• https://java.net/projects/jsonp/">jsonp</a>.</li>
• http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/">Json-lib</a>.</li>
• http://www.stringtree.org/stringtree-json.html">Stringtree</a>.</li>
• http://sojo.sourceforge.net/">SOJO</a>.</li>
• http://json-taglib.sourceforge.net/">json-taglib</a>.</li>
• http://flexjson.sourceforge.net/">Flexjson</a>.</li>
• http://argo.sourceforge.net/">Argo</a>.</li>
• https://bitbucket.org/jmarsden/jsonij">jsonij</a>.</li>
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/fastjson/">fastjson</a>.</li>
• http://bolerio.github.io/mjson/">mjson</a>.</li>
• https://github.com/grobmeier/jjson">jjson</a>.</li>
• https://github.com/fangyidong/json-simple">json-simple</a>.</li>
• https://github.com/jdereg/json-io">json-io</a>.</li>
• https://github.com/google/gson">google-gson</a>.</li>
• https://github.com/fossnova/json">FOSS Nova JSON.
• https://sites.google.com/site/javacornproject/corn-converter">Corn CONVERTER.
• http://johnzon.incubator.apache.org/">Apache johnzon.
• http://owlike.github.io/genson/">Genson</a>.</li>
• https://github.com/coconut2015/cookjson">cookjson</a>.</li>
• https://repo.progsbase.com/repoviewer/no.inductive.idea10.programs/JSON/latest">progbase</a>.</li>

...but of course the list can change.

Java 7 solution

import javax.json.*;

...

String TEXT;
JsonObject body = Json.createReader(new StringReader(TEXT)).readObject()

;

To convert String into JSONObject you just need to pass the String instance into Constructor of JSONObject.

Eg:

JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject("your string");

String to JSON using Jackson with com.fasterxml.jackson.databind:

Assuming your json-string represents as this: jsonString = {"phonetype":"N95","cat":"WP"}

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
/**
 * Simple code exmpl
 */
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
JsonNode node = mapper.readTree(jsonString);
String phoneType = node.get("phonetype").asText();
String cat = node.get("cat").asText();

I like to use google-gson for this, and it's precisely because I don't need to work with JSONObject directly.

In that case I'd have a class that will correspond to the properties of your JSON Object

class Phone {
 public String phonetype;
 public String cat;
}


...
String jsonString = "{\"phonetype\":\"N95\",\"cat\":\"WP\"}";
Gson gson = new Gson();
Phone fooFromJson = gson.fromJson(jsonString, Phone.class);
...

However, I think your question is more like, How do I endup with an actual JSONObject object from a JSON String.

I was looking at the google-json api and couldn't find anything as straight forward as org.json's api which is probably what you want to be using if you're so strongly in need of using a barebones JSONObject.

http://www.json.org/javadoc/org/json/JSONObject.html

With org.json.JSONObject (another completely different API) If you want to do something like...

JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject("{\"phonetype\":\"N95\",\"cat\":\"WP\"}");
System.out.println(jsonObject.getString("phonetype"));

I think the beauty of google-gson is that you don't need to deal with JSONObject. You just grab json, pass the class to want to deserialize into, and your class attributes will be matched to the JSON, but then again, everyone has their own requirements, maybe you can't afford the luxury to have pre-mapped classes on the deserializing side because things might be too dynamic on the JSON Generating side. In that case just use json.org.

you must import org.json

JSONObject jsonObj = null;
		try {
			jsonObj = new JSONObject("{\"phonetype\":\"N95\",\"cat\":\"WP\"}");
		} catch (JSONException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

Codehaus Jackson - I have been this awesome API since 2012 for my RESTful webservice and JUnit tests. With their API, you can:

(1) Convert JSON String to Java bean

public static String beanToJSONString(Object myJavaBean) throws Exception {
    ObjectMapper jacksonObjMapper = new ObjectMapper();
    return jacksonObjMapper.writeValueAsString(myJavaBean);
}

(2) Convert JSON String to JSON object (JsonNode)

public static JsonNode stringToJSONObject(String jsonString) throws Exception {
    ObjectMapper jacksonObjMapper = new ObjectMapper();
    return jacksonObjMapper.readTree(jsonString);
}

//Example:
String jsonString = "{\"phonetype\":\"N95\",\"cat\":\"WP\"}";   
JsonNode jsonNode = stringToJSONObject(jsonString);
Assert.assertEquals("Phonetype value not legit!", "N95", jsonNode.get("phonetype").getTextValue());
Assert.assertEquals("Cat value is tragic!", "WP", jsonNode.get("cat").getTextValue());

(3) Convert Java bean to JSON String

    public static Object JSONStringToBean(Class myBeanClass, String JSONString) throws Exception {
    ObjectMapper jacksonObjMapper = new ObjectMapper();
    return jacksonObjMapper.readValue(JSONString, beanClass);
}

REFS:

1. Codehaus Jackson

2. JsonNode API - How to use, navigate, parse and evaluate values from a JsonNode object

3. Tutorial - Simple tutorial how to use Jackson to convert JSON string to JsonNode

> Converting String to Json Object by using org.json.simple.JSONObject

private static JSONObject createJSONObject(String jsonString){
	JSONObject  jsonObject=new JSONObject();
	JSONParser jsonParser=new  JSONParser();
	if ((jsonString != null) && !(jsonString.isEmpty())) {
		try {
			jsonObject=(JSONObject) jsonParser.parse(jsonString);
		} catch (org.json.simple.parser.ParseException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
	return jsonObject;
}

Those who didn't find solution from posted answers because of deprecation issues, you can use JsonParser from com.google.gson.

Example:

JsonObject jsonObject = JsonParser.parseString(jsonString).getAsJsonObject();
System.out.println(jsonObject.get("phonetype"));
System.out.println(jsonObject.get("cat"));

If you are using http://json-lib.sourceforge.net (net.sf.json.JSONObject)

it is pretty easy:

String myJsonString;
JSONObject json = JSONObject.fromObject(myJsonString);

or

JSONObject json = JSONSerializer.toJSON(myJsonString);

get the values then with json.getString(param), json.getInt(param) and so on.

To convert a string to json and the sting is like json. {"phonetype":"N95","cat":"WP"}

String Data=response.getEntity().getText().toString(); // reading the string value 
JSONObject json = (JSONObject) new JSONParser().parse(Data);
String x=(String) json.get("phonetype");
System.out.println("Check Data"+x);
String y=(String) json.get("cat");
System.out.println("Check Data"+y);

Use JsonNode of fasterxml for the Generic Json Parsing. It internally creates a Map of key value for all the inputs.

Example:

private void test(@RequestBody JsonNode node)

input String :

{"a":"b","c":"d"}

No need to use any external library.

You can use this class instead :) (handles even lists , nested lists and json)

public class Utility {

    public static Map<String, Object> jsonToMap(Object json) throws JSONException {

        if(json instanceof JSONObject)
            return _jsonToMap_((JSONObject)json) ;

        else if (json instanceof String)
        {
            JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject((String)json) ;
            return _jsonToMap_(jsonObject) ;
        }
        return null ;
    }


   private static Map<String, Object> _jsonToMap_(JSONObject json) throws JSONException {
        Map<String, Object> retMap = new HashMap<String, Object>();

        if(json != JSONObject.NULL) {
            retMap = toMap(json);
        }
        return retMap;
    }


    private static Map<String, Object> toMap(JSONObject object) throws JSONException {
        Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>();

        Iterator<String> keysItr = object.keys();
        while(keysItr.hasNext()) {
            String key = keysItr.next();
            Object value = object.get(key);

            if(value instanceof JSONArray) {
                value = toList((JSONArray) value);
            }

            else if(value instanceof JSONObject) {
                value = toMap((JSONObject) value);
            }
            map.put(key, value);
        }
        return map;
    }


    public static List<Object> toList(JSONArray array) throws JSONException {
        List<Object> list = new ArrayList<Object>();
        for(int i = 0; i < array.length(); i++) {
            Object value = array.get(i);
            if(value instanceof JSONArray) {
                value = toList((JSONArray) value);
            }

            else if(value instanceof JSONObject) {
                value = toMap((JSONObject) value);
            }
            list.add(value);
        }
        return list;
    }
}

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To convert your JSON string to hashmap use this :

HashMap<String, Object> hashMap = new HashMap<>(Utility.jsonToMap(

NOTE that GSON with deserializing an interface will result in exception like below.

"java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to invoke no-args constructor for interface XXX. Register an InstanceCreator with Gson for this type may fix this problem."

While deserialize; GSON don't know which object has to be intantiated for that interface.

This is resolved somehow here.

However FlexJSON has this solution inherently. while serialize time it is adding class name as part of json like below.

{
    "HTTPStatus": "OK",
    "class": "com.XXX.YYY.HTTPViewResponse",
    "code": null,
    "outputContext": {
        "class": "com.XXX.YYY.ZZZ.OutputSuccessContext",
        "eligible": true
    }
}

So JSON will be cumber some; but you don't need write InstanceCreator which is required in GSON.

Using org.json

If you have a String containing JSON format text, then you can get JSON Object by following steps:

String jsonString = "{\"phonetype\":\"N95\",\"cat\":\"WP\"}";
JSONObject jsonObj = null;
    try {
        jsonObj = new JSONObject(jsonString);
    } catch (JSONException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

Now to access the phonetype

Sysout.out.println(jsonObject.getString("phonetype"));

For setting json single object to list ie

"locations":{

}

in to List<Location>

use

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.configure(DeserializationConfig.Feature.ACCEPT_SINGLE_VALUE_AS_ARRAY, true);

jackson.mapper-asl-1.9.7.jar

Better Go with more simpler way by using org.json lib. Just do a very simple approach as below:

JSONObject obj = new JSONObject();
obj.put("phonetype", "N95");
obj.put("cat", "WP");
  

Now obj is your converted JSONObject form of your respective String. This is in case if you have name-value pairs.

For a string you can directly pass to the constructor of JSONObject. If it'll be a valid json String, then okay otherwise it'll throw an exception.