Parsing json response using play libs - java

I need to parse json response in a play application and get all the fields/values in a list.
I'm getting the response as below:
WSRequestHolder request = WS.url("someurl");
request.setQueryParameter("somekey", "somevalue");
Promise<Response> promise = request.get();
Response response = promise.get();
JsonNode json = response.asJson();
The response comes like below:
{"results":{"key1":value1,"key2":value2,"key3":value3},"errorMessage":"","statusCode":2000,"success":true,"version":"1.01"}
I need to get all the feilds/values from "results" list. How can i do this using play json libraries / apis available? I'm using play 2.1.1.
Thanks.

Since the result is a JsonNode, you have all the niceties of JsonNode available to you.
For instance, if you want to access "results", do:
JsonNode results = json.get("results");
You also have methods such as .has(), .path(), .entries(), etc etc. One JsonNode can represent any JSON value, including null.
To test the type you can use the .is*() methods: .isObject(), .isNumber(), .isMissing() (note: the latter requires the use of .path() instead of .get()).
Example:
json.path("foo").isMissing(); // true
json.path("errorMessage").getTextValue(); // ""
json.get("results").get("key2"); // value2
json.get("success").getBooleanValue(); // true
Etc etc. See the javadoc for JsonNode.
Another solution would be to deserialize that JSON into a POJO. But that means creating the POJO in the first place, and then use an ObjectMapper to .read*() the value.
(side note: it is surprising that Play uses Jackson 1.9.x whereas 2.0+ has been available for many years...)

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