Parsing a value from json response where most of the payload is redundant

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To extract the name field from this json payload:

[{"name":"Estonia","topLevelDomain":[".ee"],"alpha2Code":"EE","alpha3Code":"EST","callingCodes":["372"],"capital":"Tallinn","altSpellings":["EE","Eesti","Republic of Estonia","Eesti Vabariik"],"region":"Europe","subregion":"Northern Europe","population":1315944,"latlng":[59.0,26.0],"demonym":"Estonian","area":45227.0,"gini":36.0,"timezones":["UTC+02:00"],"borders":["LVA","RUS"],"nativeName":"Eesti","numericCode":"233","currencies":[{"code":"EUR","name":"Euro","symbol":"€"}],"languages":[{"iso639_1":"et","iso639_2":"est","name":"Estonian","nativeName":"eesti"}],"translations":{"de":"Estland","es":"Estonia","fr":"Estonie","ja":"エストニア","it":"Estonia","br":"Estônia","pt":"Estónia","nl":"Estland","hr":"Estonija","fa":"استونی"},"flag":"https://restcountries.eu/data/est.svg","regionalBlocs":[{"acronym":"EU","name":"European Union","otherAcronyms":[],"otherNames":[]}],"cioc":"EST"}]

I plan to use code similar to:

@Service
public class RestService {

    private final RestTemplate restTemplate;

    public RestService(RestTemplateBuilder restTemplateBuilder) {
        this.restTemplate = restTemplateBuilder.build();
    }

    public String getPostsPlainJSON() {
        String url = "hhttps://restcountries.eu/rest/v2/name/eesti";
        return this.restTemplate.getForObject(url, MyCustomObject.class);
    }
}

MyCustomObject will contain many redundant fields that I'm not concerned with as I just wish to access the name "Estonia" for the above example. Is there an alternative method for parsing the field name rather than creating a new MyCustomObject pojo that maps to the entire JSON response?

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1 Answers

You can Use JSONPath

public static void main(String[] args) {
    String json = "[{\"name\":\"Estonia\",\"topLevelDomain\":[\".ee\"],\"alpha2Code\":\"EE\",\"alpha3Code\":\"EST\",\"callingCodes\":[\"372\"],\"capital\":\"Tallinn\",\"altSpellings\":[\"EE\",\"Eesti\",\"Republic of Estonia\",\"Eesti Vabariik\"],\"region\":\"Europe\",\"subregion\":\"Northern Europe\",\"population\":1315944,\"latlng\":[59.0,26.0],\"demonym\":\"Estonian\",\"area\":45227.0,\"gini\":36.0,\"timezones\":[\"UTC+02:00\"],\"borders\":[\"LVA\",\"RUS\"],\"nativeName\":\"Eesti\",\"numericCode\":\"233\",\"currencies\":[{\"code\":\"EUR\",\"name\":\"Euro\",\"symbol\":\"€\"}],\"languages\":[{\"iso639_1\":\"et\",\"iso639_2\":\"est\",\"name\":\"Estonian\",\"nativeName\":\"eesti\"}],\"translations\":{\"de\":\"Estland\",\"es\":\"Estonia\",\"fr\":\"Estonie\",\"ja\":\"エストニア\",\"it\":\"Estonia\",\"br\":\"Estônia\",\"pt\":\"Estónia\",\"nl\":\"Estland\",\"hr\":\"Estonija\",\"fa\":\"استونی\"},\"flag\":\"https://restcountries.eu/data/est.svg\",\"regionalBlocs\":[{\"acronym\":\"EU\",\"name\":\"European Union\",\"otherAcronyms\":[],\"otherNames\":[]}],\"cioc\":\"EST\"}]";
    
    String jsonPath = "$.[*].name";  
    DocumentContext jsonContext = JsonPath.parse(json);
    List<String> result = jsonContext.read(jsonPath);
    System.out.println("name :: "+result.get(0));
    
    result = jsonContext.read("$.[*].capital"); //To get Captial
    System.out.println("Capital :: "+result.get(0));    
}

output

name :: Estonia
Capital :: Tallinn

Maven dependency

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.jayway.jsonpath</groupId>
    <artifactId>json-path</artifactId>
    <version>2.4.0</version>
</dependency>
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