A - Explanation
You can use Jackson libraries, for binding JSON String into POJO (Plain Old Java Object) instances. POJO is simply a class with only private fields and public getter/setter methods. Jackson is going to traverse the methods (using reflection), and maps the JSON object into the POJO instance as the field names of the class fits to the field names of the JSON object.
In your JSON object, which is actually a composite object, the main object consists o two sub-objects. So, our POJO classes should have the same hierarchy. I'll call the whole JSON Object as Page object. Page object consist of a PageInfo object, and a Post object array.
So we have to create three different POJO classes;
- Page Class, a composite of PageInfo Class and array of Post Instances
- PageInfo Class
- Posts Class
The only package I've used is Jackson ObjectMapper, what we do is binding data;
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper
The required dependencies, the jar files is listed below;
- jackson-core-2.5.1.jar
- jackson-databind-2.5.1.jar
- jackson-annotations-2.5.0.jar
Here is the required code;
B - Main POJO Class : Page
package com.levo.jsonex.model;
public class Page {
private PageInfo pageInfo;
private Post[] posts;
public PageInfo getPageInfo() {
return pageInfo;
}
public void setPageInfo(PageInfo pageInfo) {
this.pageInfo = pageInfo;
}
public Post[] getPosts() {
return posts;
}
public void setPosts(Post[] posts) {
this.posts = posts;
}
}
C - Child POJO Class : PageInfo
package com.levo.jsonex.model;
public class PageInfo {
private String pageName;
private String pagePic;
public String getPageName() {
return pageName;
}
public void setPageName(String pageName) {
this.pageName = pageName;
}
public String getPagePic() {
return pagePic;
}
public void setPagePic(String pagePic) {
this.pagePic = pagePic;
}
}
D - Child POJO Class : Post
package com.levo.jsonex.model;
public class Post {
private String post_id;
private String actor_id;
private String picOfPersonWhoPosted;
private String nameOfPersonWhoPosted;
private String message;
private int likesCount;
private String[] comments;
private int timeOfPost;
public String getPost_id() {
return post_id;
}
public void setPost_id(String post_id) {
this.post_id = post_id;
}
public String getActor_id() {
return actor_id;
}
public void setActor_id(String actor_id) {
this.actor_id = actor_id;
}
public String getPicOfPersonWhoPosted() {
return picOfPersonWhoPosted;
}
public void setPicOfPersonWhoPosted(String picOfPersonWhoPosted) {
this.picOfPersonWhoPosted = picOfPersonWhoPosted;
}
public String getNameOfPersonWhoPosted() {
return nameOfPersonWhoPosted;
}
public void setNameOfPersonWhoPosted(String nameOfPersonWhoPosted) {
this.nameOfPersonWhoPosted = nameOfPersonWhoPosted;
}
public String getMessage() {
return message;
}
public void setMessage(String message) {
this.message = message;
}
public int getLikesCount() {
return likesCount;
}
public void setLikesCount(int likesCount) {
this.likesCount = likesCount;
}
public String[] getComments() {
return comments;
}
public void setComments(String[] comments) {
this.comments = comments;
}
public int getTimeOfPost() {
return timeOfPost;
}
public void setTimeOfPost(int timeOfPost) {
this.timeOfPost = timeOfPost;
}
}
E - Sample JSON File : sampleJSONFile.json
I've just copied your JSON sample into this file and put it under the project folder.
{
"pageInfo": {
"pageName": "abc",
"pagePic": "http://example.com/content.jpg"
},
"posts": [
{
"post_id": "123456789012_123456789012",
"actor_id": "1234567890",
"picOfPersonWhoPosted": "http://example.com/photo.jpg",
"nameOfPersonWhoPosted": "Jane Doe",
"message": "Sounds cool. Can't wait to see it!",
"likesCount": "2",
"comments": [],
"timeOfPost": "1234567890"
}
]
}
F - Demo Code
package com.levo.jsonex;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Arrays;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.levo.jsonex.model.Page;
import com.levo.jsonex.model.PageInfo;
import com.levo.jsonex.model.Post;
public class JSONDemo {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
try {
Page page = objectMapper.readValue(new File("sampleJSONFile.json"), Page.class);
printParsedObject(page);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
private static void printParsedObject(Page page) {
printPageInfo(page.getPageInfo());
System.out.println();
printPosts(page.getPosts());
}
private static void printPageInfo(PageInfo pageInfo) {
System.out.println("Page Info;");
System.out.println("**********");
System.out.println("\tPage Name : " + pageInfo.getPageName());
System.out.println("\tPage Pic : " + pageInfo.getPagePic());
}
private static void printPosts(Post[] posts) {
System.out.println("Page Posts;");
System.out.println("**********");
for(Post post : posts) {
printPost(post);
}
}
private static void printPost(Post post) {
System.out.println("\tPost Id : " + post.getPost_id());
System.out.println("\tActor Id : " + post.getActor_id());
System.out.println("\tPic Of Person Who Posted : " + post.getPicOfPersonWhoPosted());
System.out.println("\tName Of Person Who Posted : " + post.getNameOfPersonWhoPosted());
System.out.println("\tMessage : " + post.getMessage());
System.out.println("\tLikes Count : " + post.getLikesCount());
System.out.println("\tComments : " + Arrays.toString(post.getComments()));
System.out.println("\tTime Of Post : " + post.getTimeOfPost());
}
}
G - Demo Output
Page Info;
****(*****
Page Name : abc
Page Pic : http://example.com/content.jpg
Page Posts;
**********
Post Id : 123456789012_123456789012
Actor Id : 1234567890
Pic Of Person Who Posted : http://example.com/photo.jpg
Name Of Person Who Posted : Jane Doe
Message : Sounds cool. Can't wait to see it!
Likes Count : 2
Comments : []
Time Of Post : 1234567890
JSON.parse(<string>)(JS, Ruby, Python, Golang, even C# and php). Only Java makes a mess of it. – haslo