JSON order mixed up

Question

I\'ve a problem trying to make my page printing out the JSONObject in the order i want. In my code, I entered this:

Answer 1

The main intention here is to send an ordered JSON object as response. We don't need javax.json.JsonObject to achieve that. We could create the ordered json as a string. First create a LinkedHashMap with all key value pairs in required order. Then generate the json in string as shown below. Its much easier with Java 8.

public Response getJSONResponse() {
    Map linkedHashMap = new LinkedHashMap<>();
    linkedHashMap.put("A", "1");
    linkedHashMap.put("B", "2");
    linkedHashMap.put("C", "3");

    String jsonStr = linkedHashMap.entrySet().stream()
            .map(x -> "\"" + x.getKey() + "\":\"" + x.getValue() + "\"")
            .collect(Collectors.joining(",", "{", "}"));
    return Response.ok(jsonStr).build();
}

The response return by this function would be following: {"A":"1","B":"2","C":"3"}