Is it possible at all to convert a String to a JsValue? And how would I do so? I've been trying .asInstanceOf[JsValue] but that doesn't appear to be working
I get the following error:
[ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to play.api.libs.json.JsValue]
Any ideas?
if the string is a representation of a json object, eg:
val jsonString: String = """{"key": "value"}"""
then it can be converted to a value of type JsValue
val jsonObject: JsValue = Json.parse(jsonString)
and you can access the values in the json with path operator
println(jsonObject \ "key")
A way to construct JsValue from String is to use the play.api.libs.json.JsString case class.
Namely, JsString("abc") can be used wherever the JsValue representation of "abc" is needed.
