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How to create Array of Objects using the Jackson Streaming API

I am trying to create a JSON using the Jackson Streaming API. I know how to create an array of elements in JSON using Jackson as we have plenty of examples related to it. But I am a bit confused about how to create an array of Objects using it.
Following is the JSON structure that I would like to obtain at the end:
{
"name" : "Batman",
"year" : 2008,
"writers":[
{
"name" : "Nolan",
"age" : 49
},
{
"name" : "Johnathan",
"age" : 35
}
]
}
Following is the code I have:
import org.json.JSONObject;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonEncoding;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
ByteArrayOutputStream jsonStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
JsonGenerator jsonGenerator = mapper.getFactory().createGenerator(jsonStream, JsonEncoding.UTF8);
jsonGenerator.writeStartObject();
jsonGenerator.writeStringField("name", "Batman");
jsonGenerator.writeNumberField("year", 2008);
jsonGenerator.writeFieldName("writers");
jsonGenerator.writeStartArray();
// How to to create here objects and add it to the "writers"
// Should I create another JsonGenerator and create objects usign it?
jsonGenerator.writeEndArray();
jsonGenerator.writeEndObject();
jsonGenerator.close();
String jsonData = new String(jsonStream.toByteArray(), "UTF-8");
JSONObject json = new JSONObject(jsonData);
System.out.println(json.toString(4));
}
}
Can someone please guide me on how to create the objects and add them to the array one by one? I am unable to find such an example so posting here.

I would just create a Map to store the data. For the writers, you can call List.of to create an in-line List.
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.*;
public class MovieDataWriter {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Map<String, Object> movieData = createMap(
"name", "Batman",
"year", 2008,
"writers", List.of(
createMap(
"name", "Nolan",
"age", 49
),
createMap(
"name", "Johnathan",
"age", 35
)
)
);
writeToFile(movieData, "target/batman.json");
}
private static void writeToFile(Map<String, Object> data, String filename) {
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
ObjectWriter writer = mapper.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter();
try {
writer.writeValue(new File(filename), data);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
private static Map<String, Object> createMap(Object ...args) {
Map<String, Object> pairs = new LinkedHashMap<>();
for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i += 2) {
pairs.put(String.valueOf(args[i]), args[i + 1]);
}
return pairs;
}
}
Dependencies
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
<version>2.11.1</version>
</dependency>
batman.json
{
"name" : "Batman",
"year" : 2008,
"writers" : [ {
"name" : "Nolan",
"age" : 49
}, {
"name" : "Johnathan",
"age" : 35
} ]
}

After trying a few things I was able to get it. Basically, I had to do the same thing which I was asked in the question. I am not sure why it did not work the first time maybe I missed something. Anyways here is how you can add objects into the array using the Jackson Streaming API. Posting this as it can be beneficial to someone else in the future.
I am creating an array writers in this case and adding the objects into it using the same jsonGenerator.
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonEncoding;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
ByteArrayOutputStream jsonStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
JsonGenerator jsonGenerator = mapper.getFactory().createGenerator(jsonStream, JsonEncoding.UTF8);
jsonGenerator.writeStartObject();
jsonGenerator.writeStringField("name", "Batman");
jsonGenerator.writeNumberField("year", 2008);
jsonGenerator.writeFieldName("writers");
jsonGenerator.writeStartArray();
jsonGenerator.writeStartObject();
jsonGenerator.writeStringField("name", "Nolan");
jsonGenerator.writeNumberField("age", 45);
jsonGenerator.writeEndObject();
jsonGenerator.writeStartObject();
jsonGenerator.writeStringField("name", "Johanathan");
jsonGenerator.writeNumberField("age", 35);
jsonGenerator.writeEndObject();
jsonGenerator.writeEndArray();
jsonGenerator.writeEndObject();
jsonGenerator.close();
String jsonData = new String(jsonStream.toByteArray(), "UTF-8");
JSONObject json = new JSONObject(jsonData);
System.out.println(json.toString(4));
}
}
You will get the output something like this:
{
"year": 2008,
"name": "Batman",
"writers": [
{
"name": "Nolan",
"age": 45
},
{
"name": "Johanathan",
"age": 35
}
]
}

Properties file to complex JSON string [Java/Spring]

I'm creating a Spring application on backend and my main goal is to manage properties (add/update/delete) in *.properties file. I want to convert this file to JSON and then manipulate it from UI application.
Is there any possibility to convert structure like this:
a.x=1
a.y=2
b.z=3
To JSON like this:
{
"a": {
"x": 1,
"y": 2
},
"b": {
"z": 3
}
}
I found solution to use GSON library, but it creates for me flat structure, not hierarchical, code I used:
Properties props = new Properties();
try (FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(classPathResource.getFile())) {
props.load(in);
}
String json = new GsonBuilder().enableComplexMapKeySerialization().create().toJson(props);
Is here someone who was facing same problem and maybe found a working project for this? Maybe GSON library can do that?

This solution does involve loads of work, but you will get what you want to achieve using the below code, basically, the idea is to split the key based on the single dot and then create a JsonObject if the same first key is found.
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.Properties;
import org.json.JSONObject;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
public class SOTest {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject();
FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(new File("C:\\Usrc\\main\\java\\Sample.properties"));
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.load(fileReader);
Iterator<Entry<Object, Object>> iterator = properties.entrySet().iterator();
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
Entry<Object, Object> entry = iterator.next();
String value = (String) entry.getKey();
String[] values = value.split("\\.");
JSONObject opt = jsonObject.optJSONObject(values[0]);
if(opt!=null) {
opt.put(values[1],entry.getValue());
}else {
JSONObject object = new JSONObject();
object.put(values[1], entry.getValue());
jsonObject.put(values[0], object);
}
}
System.out.println(jsonObject.toString());
}
}
Output
{"a":{"x":"1","y":"3"},"b":{"z":"10"}}

How to get values inside from an array which is inside of an object?

I want to get the values of latitude and longitude from the JSON, which consists of two objects "stoppage" & "routePlaceback", now I'm able to get data from "routePlaceback" only, but I have no clue how to get only the values of latitude and longitude? code is as follows,
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import org.json.simple.JSONArray;
import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
import org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser;
public class Finder_Json
{
#SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
// parsing JSON file
Object sampleFile_object = new JSONParser().parse(new FileReader("sample.json"));
// typecasting object to JSONObject
JSONObject sampleFile_JSONObject = (JSONObject) sampleFile_object;
JSONArray routePlaceback = (JSONArray) sampleFile_JSONObject.get("routePlaceback");
Iterator iterator_1 = routePlaceback.iterator();
while (iterator_1.hasNext())
{
System.out.println(iterator_1.next());
System.out.println("\n");
}
}
}
My sample.json file consists,
{
"stoppage":
[
{
"latitude": "23.074207",
"longitude": "72.557227",
"record_date": 1556217000,
"start_time": 1556217000,
"end_time": 1556304360,
"duration_time": 1456
}
],
"routePlaceback":
[
{
"distance": 0.36,
"longitude": "72.502385",
"ignition": 1,
"record_date": 1556303400,
"speed": 53.708,
"latitude": "23.034403"
},
{
"distance": 0.38,
"longitude": "72.506072",
"ignition": 1,
"record_date": 1556303430,
"speed": 25.927999,
"latitude": "23.034045"
}
]
}
This is what I get when I run the above code,
But my desired output is as,
23.034403, 72.502385
23.034045, 72.506072

You can extract the required values while displaying:
while (iterator_1.hasNext())
{
JSONObject obj = (JSONObject) iterator_1.next()l
System.out.println(obj.get("latitude")+" , "+obj.get("longitude"));
System.out.println("\n");
}

You are trying to access the property of an Object where you can get the Object.
while (iterator_1.hasNext())
{
JSONObject k= (JSONObject)iterator_1.next()
System.out.println(k.latitude+" "+k.longitude);
System.out.println("\n");
}

I modified a little bit your code to achieve your target. Please find the example below:
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.util.Iterator;
import org.json.simple.JSONArray;
import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
import org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser;
public class Finder_Json
{
#SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
// parsing JSON file
Object sampleFile_object = new JSONParser().parse(new FileReader("src/main/resources/sample.json"));
// typecasting object to JSONObject
JSONObject sampleFile_JSONObject = (JSONObject) sampleFile_object;
JSONArray routePlaceback = (JSONArray) sampleFile_JSONObject.get("routePlaceback");
Iterator iterator = routePlaceback.iterator();
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
JSONObject objt = (JSONObject) iterator.next();
System.out.println(objt.get("latitude") + ", " + objt.get("longitude"));
}
}
}
I strongly suggest to use Other libraries like GSON or Jackson anyway.

Trying to read values from array nested in JSON

I've been writing a Rest service using Jackson to extract the name and sizeFromStorage inside the response value.
I created the below classes in an attempt to do this:
import java.util.List;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
#JsonIgnoreProperties(value = {"status", "header"})
public class Vaults {
private List<Object> response;
public Vaults(){
}
public Vaults(List<Object> response){
this.response = response;
}
public List<Object> getResponse(){
return response;
}
public void setResponse(List<Object> response) {
this.response = response;
}
#Override
public String toString() {
return "" + response;
}
}
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationFeature;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.type.CollectionType;
import java.io.InputStream;
public class JacksonObjectModelTest {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
String jsonFileName = "/JsonRead/json.json";
List<Vaults> emps = new JacksonObjectModelTest().getVaultList(jsonFileName);
System.out.println(emps.toString());
}
public ArrayList<Vaults> getVaultList(String jsonFileName) throws IOException {
//read json file data to String
InputStream inputStream = getClass().getResourceAsStream(jsonFileName);
//create ObjectMapper instance
ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper().enable(DeserializationFeature.ACCEPT_SINGLE_VALUE_AS_ARRAY);
//convert json string to object
CollectionType collectionType = objectMapper.getTypeFactory().constructCollectionType(List.class, Vaults.class);
ArrayList<Vaults> emps = objectMapper.readValue(inputStream, collectionType);
return (ArrayList<Vaults>) emps;
}
}
{
"status": "ok",
"header": {
"now": 1491545894581,
"status": "ok",
"requestId": "WOcvJsCoAmoAAESbkBYAAAB5"
},
"response": {
"vault": [
{
"id": 20,
"name": "Apple",
"description": "",
"sizeFromStorage": 95957225298,
"storagePools": [
{
"storagePool": {
"id": 1,
"name": "storage-pool1",
"sizeFromStorage": 95957225298,
"generations": [
{
"generation": {
"sequence": 0
}
}
]
}
}
]
},
{
"id": 21,
"name": "Banana",
"description": "",
"sizeFromStorage": 98957268244,
"storagePools": [
{
"storagePool": {
"id": 2,
"name": "storage-pool1",
"sizeFromStorage": 98957268244,
"generations": [
{
"generation": {
"sequence": 0
}
}
]
}
}
]
},
]
}
}
The output I get from this is:
[[{vaults=[{id=20, name=Apple, description=, sizeFromStorage=95957225298, storagePools=[{storagePool={id=1, name=storage-pool1, sizeFromStorage=5043, estimateUsableTotalLogicalSizeFromStorage=95957225298, generations=[{generation={sequence=0}}]}}]}, {id=20, name=Apple, description=, sizeFromStorage=95957225298, storagePools=[{storagePool={id=1, name=storage-pool1, sizeFromStorage=5043, estimateUsableTotalLogicalSizeFromStorage=95957225298, generations=[{generation={sequence=0}}]}}]}]]
However, what I want to do is the name and sizeFromStorage values. So far I've managed to strip out the first three values. Unfortunately I'm now stuck as I'm not very familiar with Rest services or reading JSON. Is there any way I can delve further into the JSON to get what I need or have I approached this in the wrong way?
Additional info:
Since posting my original question I came up with this(based on something I saw on a different site):
package JsonRead;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
public class JacksonTreeModel {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try{
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
JsonNode root = mapper.readTree(new File("JsonRead/json.json"));
JsonNode vaultsNode = root.path("response").path("vault");
/*if(vaultsNode.isArray()){
for(JsonNode node : vaultsNode){
String name = node.path("name").asText();
System.out.println("Array Name: " + name);
}
}*/
for(JsonNode node : vaultsNode){
String name = node.path("name").asText();
String bytesUsed = node.path("sizeFromStorage").asText();
System.out.println("Name: " + name + ", Bytes Used: " + bytesUsed);
}
} catch(IOException e){
System.out.println("IO Exception " + e );
}
}
}
It works for what I want but is there a better way to do this?
Will, thanks for the response. I'll look into your suggestion.

Ok, so i just re-read your question.
Recommend creating yourself a VaultDAO object with a more meaningful custom object type to use for the response collections. Prvoided you use the same variable names (which it looks like are known to you) then it should deserialize for you

get nested Object using json-simple - Wildcard for parent Node

I want to retrieve "name" values and store them in an Arraylist from a JSON file in Java. I am using JSON-simple library Here is an example of my "file.json":
{
"111": {
"customer": {
"name": "John Do",
"Height": 5.9,
"City": "NewYork"
}
},
"222":{
"customer": {
"name": "Sean Williams",
"Height": 6,
"City": "Los Angeles"
}
}
}
Id numbers "111" and "222" are not significant for my program and they are randomly generated so I am not able to use jObject.get() as the values will constantly be changing. I tried searching for a wildcard for the parent Node and then go to child node customer and then name but haven't found such thing.
Here is my code so far:
import java.io.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser;
import org.json.simple.parser.ParseException;
import org.json.simple.JSONArray;
import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
public class npTest {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, ParseException {
try {
JSONParser jParser = new JSONParser();
JSONObject jObject = (JSONObject) jParser.parse(new FileReader("file.json"));
//Notes
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
System.out.print("File not found!");
}
}
}
Notes: methods I have tried require jObject.get("id"). Also I noticed I am not able to store the JSONObject in another JSONObject, for example: JSONObject parentObj = new JSONObject(jObject.get("111"));

You can iterate through the keys in a JSONObject using the keySet() method. Then pull out your "customer" and get their name.
JSONParser jParser = new JSONParser();
JSONObject jObject = (JSONObject) jParser.parse(new FileReader("c:\\file.json"));
for(Object key : jObject.keySet()) {
JSONObject customerWrapper = (JSONObject)jObject.get(key);
JSONObject customer = (JSONObject)customerWrapper.get("customer");
System.out.println(customer.get("name"));
}

JSONObject implements the Map interface. So you could query for all map keys with normal Java syntax:
for (Object innnerO : jObject.values()){
JSONObject customerO = (JSONObject)((JSONObject)innerO).get("customer");
}
Note: This is written out of my head without compiler. So there might me errors.