Parsing JSON in Java without knowing JSON format

Take a look at Jacksons built-in tree model feature.

And your code will be:

public void parse(String json)  {
       JsonFactory factory = new JsonFactory();

       ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(factory);
       JsonNode rootNode = mapper.readTree(json);  

       Iterator<Map.Entry<String,JsonNode>> fieldsIterator = rootNode.fields();
       while (fieldsIterator.hasNext()) {

           Map.Entry<String,JsonNode> field = fieldsIterator.next();
           System.out.println("Key: " + field.getKey() + "\tValue:" + field.getValue());
       }
}

If a different library is fine for you, you could try org.json:

JSONObject object = new JSONObject(myJSONString);
String[] keys = JSONObject.getNames(object);

for (String key : keys)
{
    Object value = object.get(key);
    // Determine type of value and do something with it...
}

Find the following code for Unknown Json Object parsing using Gson library.

public class JsonParsing {
static JsonParser parser = new JsonParser();

public static HashMap<String, Object> createHashMapFromJsonString(String json) {

    JsonObject object = (JsonObject) parser.parse(json);
    Set<Map.Entry<String, JsonElement>> set = object.entrySet();
    Iterator<Map.Entry<String, JsonElement>> iterator = set.iterator();
    HashMap<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>();

    while (iterator.hasNext()) {

        Map.Entry<String, JsonElement> entry = iterator.next();
        String key = entry.getKey();
        JsonElement value = entry.getValue();

        if (null != value) {
            if (!value.isJsonPrimitive()) {
                if (value.isJsonObject()) {

                    map.put(key, createHashMapFromJsonString(value.toString()));
                } else if (value.isJsonArray() && value.toString().contains(":")) {

                    List<HashMap<String, Object>> list = new ArrayList<>();
                    JsonArray array = value.getAsJsonArray();
                    if (null != array) {
                        for (JsonElement element : array) {
                            list.add(createHashMapFromJsonString(element.toString()));
                        }
                        map.put(key, list);
                    }
                } else if (value.isJsonArray() && !value.toString().contains(":")) {
                    map.put(key, value.getAsJsonArray());
                }
            } else {
                map.put(key, value.getAsString());
            }
        }
    }
    return map;
}
}