Java JsonPath: Extract nested json object as string

Question

I need to get a json string, that is part of a larger json. As a simplified example, I want to extract only file01, and I need the json object as a string.

{
    "file01": {
        "id": "0001"
    },
    "file02": {
        "id": "0002"
    }
}

So, in code something like:

String file01 = JsonPath.parse(jsonFile).read("$.file01").toJson();
System.out.println(file01);  // {"id":"0001"}

I would like to use the library JsonPath, but I do not know how to get what I need.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

which library is this JsonPath ?

pvpkiran
– pvpkiran

2018-08-29 13:09:17 +00:00
Commented Aug 29, 2018 at 13:09 — pvpkiran
– pvpkiran, Commented Aug 29, 2018 at 13:09
Jayway JsonPath from github.com/json-path/JsonPath

Jonas_Hess
– Jonas_Hess

2018-08-29 13:10:22 +00:00
Commented Aug 29, 2018 at 13:10 — Jonas_Hess
– Jonas_Hess, Commented Aug 29, 2018 at 13:10

glytching · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-29 13:46:23Z

The default parser in JsonPath will read everything as a LinkedHashMap so the output of read() will be a Map. You could use a library such as Jackson or Gson to serialise this Map into a JSON string. However, you can also get JsonPath to do this for you internally.

To do this within JsonPath you configure JsonPath with a different implementation of AbstractJsonProvider, one which allows you to get your hands on the parsed result as JSON. In the following example, we're using GsonJsonProvider and the output of the read() method is a JSON string.

@Test
public void canParseToJson() {
    String json = "{\n" +
            "    \"file01\": {\n" +
            "        \"id\": \"0001\"\n" +
            "    },\n" +
            "    \"file02\": {\n" +
            "        \"id\": \"0002\"\n" +
            "    }\n" +
            "}";

    Configuration conf = Configuration.builder().jsonProvider(new GsonJsonProvider()).build();

    JsonObject file01 = JsonPath.using(conf).parse(json).read("$.file01");

    // prints out {"id":"0001"}
    System.out.println(file01);
}

Shiv Shankar · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-17 11:14:52Z

0

Here is the solution that works!

public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException, ParseException {
JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
Object obj = parser.parse(new FileReader("yourjson.json"));

Object res = JsonPath.read(obj, "$"); //your json path extract expression by denoting $

System.out.println(res);}

answered Mar 17, 2020 at 11:14

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