Convert JSON to Map

I hope you were joking about writing your own parser. :-)

For such a simple mapping, most tools from http://json.org (section java) would work. For one of them (Jackson https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/#5-minute-tutorial-streaming-parser-generator), you'd do:

Map<String,Object> result =
        new ObjectMapper().readValue(JSON_SOURCE, HashMap.class);

(where JSON_SOURCE is a File, input stream, reader, or json content String)

The JsonTools library is very complete. It can be found at Github.

If you're using org.json, JSONObject has a method toMap(). You can easily do:

Map<String, Object> myMap = myJsonObject.toMap();

Try this code:

  public static Map<String, Object> convertJsonIntoMap(String jsonFile) {
        Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<>();
        try {
            ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
            mapper.configure(DeserializationFeature.UNWRAP_ROOT_VALUE, true);
            mapper.readValue(jsonFile, new TypeReference<Map<String, Object>>() {
            });
            map = mapper.readValue(jsonFile, new TypeReference<Map<String, String>>() {
            });
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return map;
    }

If you need pure Java without any dependencies, you can use build in Nashorn API from Java 8. It is deprecated in Java 11.

This is working for me:

...
import javax.script.ScriptEngine;
import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager;
import javax.script.ScriptException;
...

public class JsonUtils {

    public static Map parseJSON(String json) throws ScriptException {
        ScriptEngineManager sem = new ScriptEngineManager();
        ScriptEngine engine = sem.getEngineByName("javascript");

        String script = "Java.asJSONCompatible(" + json + ")";

        Object result = engine.eval(script);

        return (Map) result;
    }
}

Sample usage

JSON:

{
    "data":[
        {"id":1,"username":"bruce"},
        {"id":2,"username":"clark"},
        {"id":3,"username":"diana"}
    ]
}

Code:

...
import jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.JSONListAdapter;
...

public static List<String> getUsernamesFromJson(Map json) {
    List<String> result = new LinkedList<>();

    JSONListAdapter data = (JSONListAdapter) json.get("data");

    for(Object obj : data) {
        Map map = (Map) obj;
        result.add((String) map.get("username"));
    }

    return result;
}

JSON to Map always gonna be a string/object data type. i have GSON lib from google. Gson library working with string not for complex objects you need to do something else

Try this piece of code, it worked for me,

Map<String, Object> retMap = new Gson().fromJson(
                myJsonString, new TypeToken<HashMap<String, Object>>() {}.getType()
        );

import net.sf.json.JSONObject

JSONObject.fromObject(yourJsonString).toMap

JSON to Map always gonna be a string/object data type. i haved GSON lib from google.

works very well and JDK 1.5 is the min requirement.