{"id":41,"date":"2011-10-28T03:01:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T03:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hhs1080.hosting.paran.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2011-10-28T03:01:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T03:01:39","slug":"how-to-convert-xml-to-json-in-java","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.goorigo.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"How to Convert XML to JSON in Java"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/answers.oreilly.com\/topic\/278-how-to-convert-xml-to-json-in-java\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Use json-lib, a library which adds JSON support to any Java program. json-lib can take XML and convert it into a JSON object.<\/p>\n

1. Add these dependencies to your project:<\/p>\n

<dependency>\n? ? ? ? <groupId>net.sf.json-lib<\/groupId>\n? ? ? ? <artifactId>json-lib<\/artifactId>\n? ? ? ? <version>2.3<\/version>\n? ? ? ? <type>jar<\/type>\n? ? ? ? <classifier>jdk15<\/classifier>\n? ? ? ? <scope>compile<\/scope>\n? ? <\/dependency>\n? ? <dependency>\n? ? ? ? <groupId>org.apache.commons<\/groupId>\n? ? ? ? <artifactId>commons-io<\/artifactId>\n? ? ? ? <version>1.3.2<\/version>\n? ? ? ? <type>jar<\/type>\n? ? ? ? <scope>compile<\/scope>\n? ? <\/dependency>\n? ? <dependency>\n? ? ? ? <groupId>xom<\/groupId>\n? ? ? ? <artifactId>xom<\/artifactId>\n? ? ? ? <version>1.1<\/version>\n? ? <\/dependency>\n? <\/dependencies><\/pre>\n
What does this mean? See How to Add a Dependency to a Java Project<\/p>\n
2. Put the following XML sample in your classpath in a file named sample-xml.xml:<\/p>\n
<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<important-data certified=\"true\" processed=\"true\">\n? <timestamp>232423423423<\/timestamp>\n? <authors>\n? ? <author>\n? ? ? <firstName>Tim<\/firstName>\n? ? ? <lastName>Leary<\/lastName>\n? ? <\/author>\n? <\/authors>\n? <title>Flashbacks<\/title>\n? <shippingWeight>1.4 pounds<\/shippingWeight>\n? <isbn>978-0874778700<\/isbn>\n<\/important-data><\/pre>\n
3. Load the resource from the classpath and parse this XML into JSON as follows:<\/p>\n
package com.discursive.answers;\n\nimport java.io.InputStream;\n\nimport net.sf.json.JSON;\nimport net.sf.json.xml.XMLSerializer;\n\nimport org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;\n\npublic class ConvertXMLtoJSON {\n\n? ? ? ? public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {\n? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? InputStream is = \n? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ConvertXMLtoJSON.class.getResourceAsStream(\"sample-xml.xml\");\n? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? String xml = IOUtils.toString(is);\n? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? \n? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? XMLSerializer xmlSerializer = new XMLSerializer(); \n? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? JSON json = xmlSerializer.read( xml ); ?\n? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? System.out.println( json.toString(2) );\n? ? ? ? }\n}<\/pre>\n
4. This should produce the following JSON output:<\/p>\n
{\n? \"@certified\": \"true\",\n? \"@processed\": \"true\",\n? \"timestamp\": \"232423423423\",\n? \"authors\": [ ?{\n? ? \"firstName\": \"Tim\",\n? ? \"lastName\": \"Leary\"\n? }],\n? \"title\": \"Flashbacks\",\n? \"shippingWeight\": \"1.4 pounds\",\n? \"isbn\": \"978-0874778700\"\n}<\/pre>\n
This sample project is available on GitHub here:?http:\/\/github.com\/to…le-json-parsing<\/a><\/p>\n
For more information about the json-lib project, see?JSON-LIB project page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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