Jackson or JAXB, which one is better for JSON? [closed]

Answer 1

I have used Jackson 2.9.8 and works well with both JSON and XML.My vote is for Jackson library + Jackson-dataformat-xml.jar. Have a look on the code for JSON and XML, it's just the same with bit change here and there.

  /**** MainClass ****/

  import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAutoDetect.Visibility;
  import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.PropertyAccessor;
  import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
  import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
  import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
  import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper;

 public class MainClass {

public static void main(String[] args) throws JsonProcessingException {

    // Serialization: java obj to json--> writeValueAsString
    // DeSerialization: json to java obj--> ReadValue

    XmlMapper mapper1 = new XmlMapper();
    ObjectMapper mapper2 = new ObjectMapper();

    mapper1.setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.FIELD, Visibility.ANY);
    mapper2.setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.FIELD, Visibility.ANY);

    mapper1.enable(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT);
    mapper2.enable(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT);

    MyPojo mypojo = new MyPojo();
    mypojo.setName("Dhani");
    mypojo.setId("18082013");
    mypojo.setAge(5);

    String jsonStringXML = mapper1.writeValueAsString(mypojo);
    String jsonStringJSON = mapper2.writeValueAsString(mypojo);
    // takes java class with def or customized constructors and creates JSON

    System.out.println("XML is " + "\n" + jsonStringXML + "\n");
    System.out.println("Json is " + "\n" + jsonStringJSON);
}   }

/***** MyPojo.java *****/

   import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
   import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
   import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonPropertyOrder;
   import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.annotation.JacksonXmlRootElement;

  @JsonPropertyOrder({ "name", "age", "id", "note" })
  @JacksonXmlRootElement(namespace = "urn:stackify:jacksonxml", localName = "myPOJO")
   public class MyPojo {

@JsonProperty("_id")
private String id;

private String name;

private int age;

@JsonIgnore
private String note;

public String getNote() {
    return note;
}

public void setNote(String note) {
    this.note = note;
}

public String getId() {
    return id;
}

public void setId(String id) {
    this.id = id;
}

public String getName() {
    return name;
}

public void setName(String name) {
    this.name = name;
}

public int getAge() {
    return age;
}

public void setAge(int age) {
    this.age = age;
} }

RESULT

XML

        
        Dhani
         5
         <_id xmlns="">18082013
         

JSON

     {
      "name" : "Dhani",
       "age" : 5,
       "_id" : "18082013"
     }