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How to read Json data using JsonReader?


This page shows an example on how to read json using JsonReader. Reading data using JsonReader is somewhat similar to XML parsing using DOM API.

As a first step add maven dependent jar files to your classpath. Here is the pom.xml file for your reference:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" 
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 
    					http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>json_exmp</groupId>
  <artifactId>json_exmp</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <dependencies>
  	<dependency>
  		<groupId>javax.json</groupId>
  		<artifactId>javax.json-api</artifactId>
  		<version>1.0</version>
  	</dependency>
  	<dependency>
  		<groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
  		<artifactId>javax.json</artifactId>
  		<version>1.0.4</version>
  	</dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

Input Json File:
{
    "emp_id": 1017,
    "emp_name": "Nagesh Y",
    "emp_designation": "Manager",
    "department": "Java2Novice",
    "salary": 30000,
    "direct_reports": [
        "Nataraj G",
        "Kalyan",
        "Mahitha"
    ],
    "address": {
        "street":"MG Road",
        "city":"Bangalore"
    }
}

Here is the java example to read json data using JsonReader object:

package com.javaapi.json.examples;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.InputStream;

import javax.json.Json;
import javax.json.JsonObject;
import javax.json.JsonReader;

public class ReadJsonExample {

	public static void main(String a[]){
		
		File jsonInputFile = new File("/Users/java2novice/jsonInput.txt");
		InputStream is;
		try {
			is = new FileInputStream(jsonInputFile);
			// Create JsonReader from Json.
			JsonReader reader = Json.createReader(is);
			// Get the JsonObject structure from JsonReader.
			JsonObject empObj = reader.readObject();
			reader.close();
			// read string data
	        System.out.println("Emp Name: " + empObj.getString("emp_name"));
	        // read integer data
	        System.out.println("Emp Id: " + empObj.getInt("emp_id"));
			// read inner json element
	        JsonObject addrObj = empObj.getJsonObject("address");
	        System.out.println("City: " + addrObj.getString("city"));
		} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}

Output:
Emp Name: Nagesh Y
Emp Id: 1017
City: Bangalore
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