JSON parsing using Gson for Java

I would like to parse data from JSON which is of type String. I am using Google Gson.

I have:

jsonLine = "
{
 "data": {
  "translations": [
   {
    "translatedText": "Hello world"
   }
  ]
 }
}
";

and my class is:

public class JsonParsing{

   public void parse(String jsonLine) {

      // there I would like to get String "Hello world"

   }

}

Solution 1:

This is simple code to do it, I avoided all checks but this is the main idea.

 public String parse(String jsonLine) {
    JsonElement jelement = new JsonParser().parse(jsonLine);
    JsonObject  jobject = jelement.getAsJsonObject();
    jobject = jobject.getAsJsonObject("data");
    JsonArray jarray = jobject.getAsJsonArray("translations");
    jobject = jarray.get(0).getAsJsonObject();
    String result = jobject.get("translatedText").getAsString();
    return result;
}

To make the use more generic - you will find that Gson's javadocs are pretty clear and helpful.

Solution 2:

In my first gson application I avoided using additional classes to catch values mainly because I use json for config matters

despite the lack of information (even gson page), that's what I found and used:

starting from

Map jsonJavaRootObject = new Gson().fromJson("{/*whatever your mega complex object*/}", Map.class)

Each time gson sees a {}, it creates a Map (actually a gson StringMap )

Each time gson sees a '', it creates a String

Each time gson sees a number, it creates a Double

Each time gson sees a [], it creates an ArrayList

You can use this facts (combined) to your advantage

Finally this is the code that makes the thing

        Map<String, Object> javaRootMapObject = new Gson().fromJson(jsonLine, Map.class);

    System.out.println(
        (
            (Map)
            (
                (List)
                (
                    (Map)
                    (
                        javaRootMapObject.get("data")
                    )
                 ).get("translations")
            ).get(0)
        ).get("translatedText")
    );

Solution 3:

Simplest thing usually is to create matching Object hierarchy, like so:

public class Wrapper {
   public Data data;
}
static class Data {
   public Translation[] translations;
}
static class Translation {
   public String translatedText;
}

and then bind using GSON, traverse object hierarchy via fields. Adding getters and setters is pointless for basic data containers.

So something like:

Wrapper value = GSON.fromJSON(jsonString, Wrapper.class);
String text = value.data.translations[0].translatedText;

Solution 4:

You can create corresponding java classes for the json objects. The integer, string values can be mapped as is. Json can be parsed like this-

Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().create(); 
Response r = gson.fromJson(jsonString, Response.class);

Here is an example- http://rowsandcolumns.blogspot.com/2013/02/url-encode-http-get-solr-request-and.html