check if file is json, java

Question

Using Java is there an easy way to check whether a given file conforms to json format?

Using gson, the best i can do is:

private final JsonParser parser = new JsonParser();
jsonElement = parser.parse(new FileReader(fileName));

    if (jsonElement.isJsonObject()) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }

Any cleaner ideas?

BalusC · Accepted Answer · 2010-09-09 18:34:45Z

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Gson will throw JsonParseException if the JSON is not parseable. You just have to catch that with JsonParser#parse() in the try.

try {
    new JsonParser().parse(jsonSource);
    // Valid.
} catch (JsonParseException e) {
    // Invalid.
}

answered Sep 9, 2010 at 18:34

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