Converting JSON data to Java object

Question

I want to be able to access properties from a JSON string within my Java action method. The string is available by simply saying myJsonString = object.getJson()

Answer 1

Easy and working java code to convert JSONObject to Java Object

Employee.java

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.annotation.Generated;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAnyGetter;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAnySetter;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonPropertyOrder;

@JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
@Generated("org.jsonschema2pojo")
@JsonPropertyOrder({
"id",
"firstName",
"lastName"
})
public class Employee {

@JsonProperty("id")
private Integer id;
@JsonProperty("firstName")
private String firstName;
@JsonProperty("lastName")
private String lastName;
@JsonIgnore
private Map additionalProperties = new HashMap();

/**
*
* @return
* The id
*/
@JsonProperty("id")
public Integer getId() {
return id;
}

/**
*
* @param id
* The id
*/
@JsonProperty("id")
public void setId(Integer id) {
this.id = id;
}

/**
*
* @return
* The firstName
*/
@JsonProperty("firstName")
public String getFirstName() {
return firstName;
}

/**
*
* @param firstName
* The firstName
*/
@JsonProperty("firstName")
public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
this.firstName = firstName;
}

/**
*
* @return
* The lastName
*/
@JsonProperty("lastName")
public String getLastName() {
return lastName;
}

/**
*
* @param lastName
* The lastName
*/
@JsonProperty("lastName")
public void setLastName(String lastName) {
this.lastName = lastName;
}

@JsonAnyGetter
public Map getAdditionalProperties() {
return this.additionalProperties;
}

@JsonAnySetter
public void setAdditionalProperty(String name, Object value) {
this.additionalProperties.put(name, value);
}

}

LoadFromJSON.java

import org.codehaus.jettison.json.JSONObject;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

public class LoadFromJSON {

    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
        JSONObject json = new JSONObject();
        json.put("id", 2);
        json.put("firstName", "hello");
        json.put("lastName", "world");

        byte[] jsonData = json.toString().getBytes();

        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
        Employee employee = mapper.readValue(jsonData, Employee.class);

        System.out.print(employee.getLastName());

    }
}