How to sort JSON object in java?

Question

I\'ve been looking for a while and want a way to sort a JSON object like this:

{\"results\": [
  {
    \"layerId\": 5,
    \"layerName\": \"Pharmaceutical En         


        

Answer 1

Parse these JSON to Collection of Objects and use comparator to sort it using your preferred field.

• Use GSON to parse it to collection of objects

Example:

import com.google.gson.Gson;

class Person {
  private int age;
  private String name;
}

String json = "{'age':22,'name':'Jigar'}";
Gson gson = new Gson();
TestJsonFromObject obj = gson.fromJson(json, Person.class);  

If you want to create JSON from Object.

Person p = new Person();
p.setName("Jigar");
p.setAge(22);
String jsonStr = new com.google.gson.Gson().toJson(obj);

Answer 2

I used JSON simple API to sort this. Here is my code:

import java.io.FileReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;

import org.json.simple.JSONArray;
import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
import org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser;

public class SortJSON {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
    try {
        JSONObject o = (JSONObject) parser.parse(new FileReader("test3.json"));
        JSONArray array = (JSONArray) o.get("results");
        ArrayList<JSONObject> list = new ArrayList<>();

        for (int i = 0; i < array.size(); i++) {
            list.add((JSONObject) array.get(i));
        }
        Collections.sort(list, new MyJSONComparator());

        for (JSONObject obj : list) {
            System.out.println(((JSONObject) obj.get("attributes")).get("OBJECTID"));
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

}

class MyJSONComparator implements Comparator<JSONObject> {

@Override
public int compare(JSONObject o1, JSONObject o2) {
    String v1 = (String) ((JSONObject) o1.get("attributes")).get("COMMERCIALNAME_E");
    String v3 = (String) ((JSONObject) o2.get("attributes")).get("COMMERCIALNAME_E");
    return v1.compareTo(v3);
}

}

Answer 3

You can write a List<JSONObject> wrapper around the JSON array, then use Collections.sort with a custom Comparator<JSONObject>.

Answer 4

Boon provides JSON sorting, searching, filtering and more.

Check out:

http://www.dzone.com/links/r/sorting_for_java_instances_maps_java_collections.html (Boon Sorting)

    Object jsonObject = fromJson(json);
    List<?> jsonDepartments = (List<?>) jsonObject;
    List<?> jsonEmployees = (List<Employee>) atIndex(jsonDepartments, "employees");

    sort(employees); //natural sort


    sort( employees, "lastName"); //sort by last name



    sort( departmentList ); //natural sort



    sort( employees, sortBy( "department.name" ),
                     sortByDescending( "lastName" ),
                     sortBy( "firstName" ) ); //you get the idea



    sort(employees,
            sortBy("contactInfo.phoneNumbers[0]")); //you can even sort by a path expression




    sort( employees,
            sortByDescending("contactInfo.phoneNumbers[0]") ); //backwards by a path expression


    max(employees); //gets the max (natural order employee)


    greatest(employees, 5); //gets the top five


    min(employees); //gets the lowest



    least(employees, 5); //gets the lowest five


    max(employees, "salary"); //gets the top salaried employee

    greatest(employees, "salary", 5); //gets the top five salaried employees


    min(employees, "salary"); //the least

    least(employees, "salary", 5); //the lowest five salaried employees

Boon is also currently the fastest JSON parser on the JVM (circa March 2014).

Answer 5

I used Jackson to do it. Below is sort method implementation you can probably add more checks to it and add a return type

 public void sort(String data) throws IOException {
    JsonNode node = new ObjectMapper().readTree(data);
    ArrayNode array = (ArrayNode) node.get("results");
    Iterator<JsonNode> i =array.elements();
    List<JsonNode> list = new ArrayList<>();
    while(i.hasNext()){
        list.add(i.next());
    }
    list.sort(Comparator.comparing(o -> o.get("attributes").get("COMMERCIALNAME_E").asText()));
}