Convert a JSON string to object in Java ME?

Question

Is there a way in Java/J2ME to convert a string, such as:

{name:\"MyNode\", width:200, height:100}

to an internal Object representation of

Answer 1

The simplest option is Jackson:

MyObject ob = new ObjectMapper().readValue(jsonString, MyObject.class);

There are other similarly simple to use libraries (Gson was already mentioned); but some choices are more laborious, like original org.json library, which requires you to create intermediate "JSONObject" even if you have no need for those.