I am trying find a Java lib/api that will allow me to turn the contents of a HTTP Request POST body into a JSON object.
Ideally I would like to use a Apache Sling library (as they are exposed in my container naturally).
The closest I've found it: org.apache.sling.commons.json.http
which converts the header to JSON.
HTTP Post bodies are in the format; key1=value1&key2=value2&..&keyn=valueN
so I assume there is something out there, but I havent been able to find it.
I may just have to use a custom JSONTokener
(org.apache.sling.commons.json.JSONTokener
) to do this if something doesn't already exist. Thoughts?
Thanks
Assuming you're using an HttpServlet and a JSON library like json-simple you could do something like this:
public JSONObject requestParamsToJSON(ServletRequest req) {
JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject();
Map<String,String[]> params = req.getParameterMap();
for (Map.Entry<String,String[]> entry : params.entrySet()) {
String v[] = entry.getValue();
Object o = (v.length == 1) ? v[0] : v;
jsonObj.put(entry.getKey(), o);
}
return jsonObj;
}
With example usage:
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) {
JSONObject jsonObj = requestParamsToJSON(req);
// Now "jsonObj" is populated with the request parameters.
// e.g. {"key1":"value1", "key2":["value2a", "value2b"], ...}
}
Jackson is also a good option - its used extensively in Spring. Here is the tutorial: http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonInFiveMinutes
I recommend trying Apache Commons Beanutils.
ServeltRequest request;
Map map = request.getParameterMap();
MyObject object = new MyObject();
BeanUtils.populate(object, map);
String json = object.toJSON() //using any JSON library
Sorry on making this an own answer but obviously my reputation doesn't allow me to simply add a comment to the answer How to convert HTTP Request Body into JSON Object in Java of maerics.
I would also iterate over the request params but instead of using an arbitrary json library use the JSONObject that is provided by sling. http://sling.apache.org/apidocs/sling6/org/apache/sling/commons/json/JSONObject.html
import org.json.JSONObject;
JSONObject json = new JSONObject(request.getParameterMap())
Use Gson. With this you can create class with private variables which represent the data you want : for example.
meta:{
name:"Example"
firstname:"Example2"
}
data:[
{
title:"ecaetra"
description:"qwerty"
}
...
]
Json Object could be retrieve like this :
public class RetrieveData {
private Meta meta;
private List<Data> data;
public Meta getMeta(){
return meta;
}
public List<Data> getData(){
return data;
}
}
public class Meta {
private String name;
private String firstname;
public String getName(){
return name;
}
public String getFirstName(){
return firstname;
}
}
public class Data {
private String title;
private String description;
public String getTitle(){
return title;
}
public String getDescription(){
return description;
}
}
And your instruction are simple. Content is the content of your Page, you can retrieve it with Asynctask.
Object o = new Gson().fromJson(Content, RetrieveData.class);
data = (RetrieveData)o;
// Get Meta
data.getName(); // Example
data.getFirstName(); // Example2
// Get Data
data.get(0).getTitle(); // position 0 : ecaetra
data.get(0).getDescription(); // position 0 : qwerty