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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"}}

Java parse a JSONList which is not formatted as an array

I am struggling with this issue and I can't find an answer anywhere. Ihave a .jsonlist file formatted like this :
example.jsonlist
{"op_author":1, "op_name":2}
{"op_author":3, "op_name":4}
{"op_author":5, "op_name":6}
I would like to parse it into a Java object, but I can't find how to do it with Gson or json-simple libraries since it is not formated like a json object.
Here is what I tried so far :
Modele.java
public class Modele {
private String op_author, op_name;
}
JsonListToJava.java
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.Reader;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
public class JsonListToJava {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
try(Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(JsonListToJava.class.getResourceAsStream("example.jsonlist"), "UTF-8")){
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().create();
Modele p = gson.fromJson(reader, Modele.class);
System.out.println(p);
}
}
}
But I get this error :
Exception in thread "main" com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException:
com.google.gson.stream.MalformedJsonException: Use
JsonReader.setLenient(true) to accept malformed JSON at line 2 column ...

JSON libraries are usually designed to work with valid JSONs.
In your case you can read the file line by line, then parse:
try(BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(JsonListToJava.class.getResourceAsStream("example.jsonlist"), "UTF-8"))){
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().create();
Stream<String> lines = reader.lines();
lines.forEach((line) -> {
Model p = gson.fromJson(line, Model.class);
System.out.println(p);
});
}

parse json string using simple-json

I have read the posts that appeared to be the same as my question but I must be missing something. My environment is Eclipse Mars. My JAVA is 1.7 and I have imported json-simple. I simply wish to parse the json that is returned from my web service. I control the web service if I need to modify its output. I see the json in arg[0] as noted below however the Object obj is null as of course is the JSONArray array. I know that I am missing something basic but I am stumped and a bit tired.
Here is the returned json:
[{"$id":"1","NumberID":121183,"PortfolioID":718,"PropertyID":14489,"Adsource":17287,"PlanTypeID":1,"GreetingFile":"HolidayGreeting.wav","PromptFile1":"senior.leasing.first.wav","Accepts1":2,"PromptAction_ID1":1,"PromptFile2":"Default.wav","Accepts2":2,"PromptAction_ID2":1,"PromptFile3":"Default.wav","Accepts3":2,"PromptAction_ID3":1,"PromptFile4":"Default.wav","Accepts4":2,"PromptAction_ID4":1,"PromptFile5":"Default.wav","Accepts5":2,"PromptAction_ID5":1,"HoldMsgFile1":"SpectrumHold.wav","HoldMsgFile2":"Default.wav","Destination1":15197,"Destination2":15024,"Destination3":0,"UIType_ID":16,"RingCount":0,"Enabled":true,"Spanish":false,"HoldMusicFile":"Hold_Music.wav","Template_ID":41,"FrontLineForward":true,"DisclaimerFIle":"1Silence.wav"}]
Here is the parse code employing json-simple:
package parser;
import org.json.simple.*;
import org.json.simple.JSONArray;
import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
import org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser;
import org.json.simple.parser.ParseException;
import java.io.*;
public class JsonParser
{
private static JSONObject _jsonInput;
public static void main(String[] args)
{
//TODO
try{
JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
Object obj = JSONValue.parse(args[0]);
JSONArray array=(JSONArray)obj;
String name = array.get(3).toString();
System.out.println(obj);
}
catch(Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

The size of the array different than the index used
JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
Object obj = parser.parse(new FileReader(args[1]));
JSONArray array=(JSONArray)obj;
if (array.size() > 3)
String name = array.get(3).toString();

How to get data from Gson link

this is my code:
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import com.google.gson.*;
public class GsonDecode {
public static void main (String[] args) throws IOException{
String sURL = "http://pubapi.cryptsy.com/api.php?method=orderdata"; //just a string
// Connect to the URL using java's native library
URL url = new URL(sURL);
HttpURLConnection request = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
request.connect();
// Convert to a JSON object to print data
JsonParser jp = new JsonParser(); //from gson
JsonElement root = jp.parse(new InputStreamReader((InputStream) request.getContent())); //convert the input stream to a json element
JsonElement jsonElement = root.getAsJsonObject().get("return");
}
}
I need to get only the "label" of each market from this JSON link. All other info is unnecessarily
Whats the easiest way to do it ?

You can't unless the API is designed for that. Ask API developers for that if it's implementer they'll provide documentation or other URL for that.
Or you can download whole json and get all names like this
JsonElement jsonElement = root.getAsJsonObject().get("return");
Set<Map.Entry<String,JsonElement>> entries = jsonElement.getAsJsonObject().entrySet();
for(Map.Entry<String,JsonElement> entry:entries) {
System.out.println(entry.getKey()); //get keys
}

Parsing JSON data in Java

I want to parse the some data from this page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/programmes/schedules/england/2013/03/1.json
The data I want to parse is the titles however I am unsure how I can extract the data. This is what I have done so far:
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
import org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser;
public class Test
{
public Test() { }
public static void main(String[] args)
{
URL url;
HttpURLConnection connection = null;
InputStream is = null;
JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
try
{
url = new URL("http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/programmes/schedules/england/2013/03/1.json");
connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
connection.connect();
is = connection.getInputStream();
BufferedReader theReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, "UTF-8"));
String reply;
while ((reply = theReader.readLine()) != null)
{
System.out.println(reply);
Object obj = parser.parse(reply);
JSONObject jsonObject = (JSONObject) obj;
String title = (String) jsonObject.get("time");
System.out.println(title);
}
}
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
This just returns null. Can anybody tell me what I need to change? Thanks.

If you read the javadoc of JSONObject#get(String) which is actually HashMap.get(String), it states
Returns: the value to which the specified key is mapped, or null if
this map contains no mapping for the key
Your JSON does not contain a mapping for the key time.
Edit:
If you meant title instead of time, take this extract of the JSON
{"schedule":{"service":{"type":"radio","key":"radio1","title":"BBC Radio 1",...
You need to first get schedule as a JSONObject, then service as a JSONObject, and then title as a normal String value. Apply this differently depending on the type of JSON value.

use something like JSONGen to better understand your data structures, maybe even map your data to the generated objects using google-gson library