Parsing a subset of JSON in Java using Jackson

Question

Given a Json, is it possible to use Jackson to only parse out a section of the message? Say that the data I\'m interested in is buried in a deep hierarchy of fields and I simply

Answer 1

You can use JsonPath library. With this library you can map your JsonPath output directly into POJO's.

Pseudo:

List phoneNrs = JsonPath.parse(json).read("$.my.deep.structure.persons.phoneNumbers", List.class);