How to read json file into java with simple JSON library

The whole file is an array and there are objects and other arrays (e.g. cars) in the whole array of the file.

As you say, the outermost layer of your JSON blob is an array. Therefore, your parser will return a JSONArray. You can then get JSONObjects from the array ...

  JSONArray a = (JSONArray) parser.parse(new FileReader("c:\\exer4-courses.json"));

  for (Object o : a)
  {
    JSONObject person = (JSONObject) o;

    String name = (String) person.get("name");
    System.out.println(name);

    String city = (String) person.get("city");
    System.out.println(city);

    String job = (String) person.get("job");
    System.out.println(job);

    JSONArray cars = (JSONArray) person.get("cars");

    for (Object c : cars)
    {
      System.out.println(c+"");
    }
  }

For reference, see "Example 1" on the json-simple decoding example page.

You can use jackson library and simply use these 3 lines to convert your json file to Java Object.

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
InputStream is = Test.class.getResourceAsStream("/test.json");
testObj = mapper.readValue(is, Test.class);

Add Jackson databind:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
    <version>2.9.0.pr2</version>
</dependency>

Create DTO class with related fields and read JSON file:

ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
ExampleClass example = objectMapper.readValue(new File("example.json"), ExampleClass.class);

Reading from JsonFile

public static ArrayList<Employee> readFromJsonFile(String fileName){
        ArrayList<Employee> result = new ArrayList<Employee>();

        try{
            String text = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(fileName)), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

            JSONObject obj = new JSONObject(text);
            JSONArray arr = obj.getJSONArray("employees");

            for(int i = 0; i < arr.length(); i++){
                String name = arr.getJSONObject(i).getString("name");
                short salary = Short.parseShort(arr.getJSONObject(i).getString("salary"));
                String position = arr.getJSONObject(i).getString("position");
                byte years_in_company = Byte.parseByte(arr.getJSONObject(i).getString("years_in_company")); 
                if (position.compareToIgnoreCase("manager") == 0){
                    result.add(new Manager(name, salary, position, years_in_company));
                }
                else{
                    result.add(new OrdinaryEmployee(name, salary, position, years_in_company));
                }
            }           
        }
        catch(Exception ex){
            System.out.println(ex.toString());
        }
        return result;
    }

Use google-simple library.

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.googlecode.json-simple</groupId>
    <artifactId>json-simple</artifactId>
    <version>1.1.1</version>
</dependency>

Please find the sample code below:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
        JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
        //Use JSONObject for simple JSON and JSONArray for array of JSON.
        JSONObject data = (JSONObject) parser.parse(
              new FileReader("/resources/config.json"));//path to the JSON file.

        String json = data.toJSONString();
    } catch (IOException | ParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Use JSONObject for simple JSON like {"id":"1","name":"ankur"} and JSONArray for array of JSON like [{"id":"1","name":"ankur"},{"id":"2","name":"mahajan"}].

How to read json file into java with simple JSON library

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