Scala: Parse JSON directly into a case class

Question

Given a string of JSON, and a case class that corresponds to it, what\'s a simple way to parse the JSON into the case class? There are many libraries available, but it seem

Answer 1

There are several frameworks which can exactly do that.

circe

Used a lot nowdays. Many great features. Will pull cats in.

https://circe.github.io/circe/ https://github.com/circe/circe

JSON4s

JSON4s is quite mature and supports jackson or a native JSON-Parser. Used it in many projects to replace jerkson.

https://github.com/json4s/json4s

play-json

Can be used without the full play stack. Great support as part of the play project at typesafe.

http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.0/ScalaJson

Scala-Pickling

A serialization Framework. There is an option to serialize/ and deserialize to JSON.

https://github.com/scala/pickling

Spray JSON

Can searialize and deserialize. Need to know number of arguments for deserialization tough.

https://github.com/spray/spray-json