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How to convert JSON string to Map using Jackson API?


This page shows how to convert JSON string to java map object using Jackson's data binding.

Note: Refer How to convert Java object to JSON string? page for dependent libraries.

package com.java2novice.json.examples;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
import org.codehaus.jackson.type.TypeReference;

public class JsonToMapEx {

	public static void main(String a[]){
		
		String jsonStr = "{\"name\":\"Nataraj\", \"job\":\"Programmer\"}";
		Map<String,String> resultMap = new HashMap<String,String>();
		ObjectMapper mapperObj = new ObjectMapper();
		
		System.out.println("Input Json: "+jsonStr);
		try {
			resultMap = mapperObj.readValue(jsonStr, 
							new TypeReference<HashMap<String,String>>(){});
			System.out.println("Output Map: "+resultMap);
		} catch (IOException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}

Output:
Input Json: {"name":"Nataraj", "job":"Programmer"}
Output Map: {name=Nataraj, job=Programmer}
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