You can use jackson libraries to parse json.
Eg:-
class Student {
private String name;
private int age;
public Student(){}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public int getAge() {
return age;
}
public void setAge(int age) {
this.age = age;
}
public String toString(){
return "Student [ name: "+name+", age: "+ age+ " ]";
}
}
public static void main(String args[]){
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
String jsonString = "{\"name\":\"Mahesh\", \"age\":21}";
//map json to student
try{
Student student = mapper.readValue(jsonString, Student.class);
System.out.println(student);
mapper.enable(SerializationConfig.Feature.INDENT_OUTPUT);
jsonString = mapper.writeValueAsString(student);
System.out.println(jsonString);
}
catch (JsonParseException e) { e.printStackTrace();}
catch (JsonMappingException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
}
Refer: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/jackson/
http://www.journaldev.com/2324/jackson-json-java-parser-api-example-tutorial.