Miscellaneous JSON

Jodd Json has more tricks in its sleeves.

Convert bean to map

Sometimes you may want to convert an object into a map, using the JsonSerializer exclude/include rules. This can be done with BeanSerializer, in few steps like this:

    final Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>();

    JsonContext jsonContext = new JsonSerializer().createJsonContext(null);

    BeanSerializer beanSerializer = new BeanSerializer(jsonContext, bean) {
        @Override
        protected void onSerializableProperty(
                String propertyName, Class propertyType, Object value) {
            map.put(propertyName, value);
        }
    };

    beanSerializer.serialize();

BeanSerializer parse beans and match properties to all include/exclude rules. Resulting map will contain all included properties of a bean. Serializing this map or the bean should give exactly the same results!

This may be handy if you have some further filtering options on some bean.

Use JsonWriter

JsonWriter is simple class that writes JSON to the output. You can use it to construct JSON directly, without serialization:

    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    JsonWriter jsonWriter = new JsonWriter(sb);

    jsonWriter.writeOpenObject();
    jsonWriter.writeName("one");
    jsonWriter.writeNumber(Long.valueOf(123));
    jsonWriter.writeComma();
    jsonWriter.writeName("two");
    jsonWriter.writeString("UberLight");
    jsonWriter.writeCloseObject();

This can be handy when e.g. you need to wrap your serialized JSON into another simple map. Instead of creating a new Map object you can simply use the writer with the JSON result to create the same thing, but faster.

Global configuration

Most of the configurations for JsonSerializer and JsonParser can be set on global level, too. Class JoddJson holds the default configuration.

Enjoy!