My goal is to read a JSON file and understand the location of all the values, so that when I encounter that same JSON, I can easily read all the values. I am looking for a way to return a list containing all of the paths to each data value, in Jayway JsonPath format.
Example JSON:
{
"shopper": {
"Id": "4973860941232342",
"Context": {
"CollapseOrderItems": false,
"IsTest": false
}
},
"SelfIdentifiersData": {
"SelfIdentifierData": [
{
"SelfIdentifierType": {
"SelfIdentifierType": "111"
}
},
{
"SelfIdentifierType": {
"SelfIdentifierType": "2222"
}
}
]
}
}
Ideally I would like to take that JSON as a String and do something like this:
String json = "{'shopper': {'Id': '4973860941232342', 'Context': {'CollapseOrderItems': false, 'IsTest': false } }, 'SelfIdentifiersData': {'SelfIdentifierData': [{'SelfIdentifierType': {'SelfIdentifierType': '111'} }, {'SelfIdentifierType': {'SelfIdentifierType': '2222'} } ] } }";
Configuration conf = Configuration.defaultConfiguration();
List<String> jsonPaths = JsonPath.using(conf).parse(json).read("$");
for (String path : jsonPaths) {
System.out.println(path);
}
This code would print this, which is the location of all values in the JSON:
$.shopper.Id
$.shopper.Context.CollapseOrderItems
$.shopper.Context.IsTest
$.SelfIdentifiersData[0].SelfIdentifierData.SelfIdentifierType.SelfIdentifierType
$.SelfIdentifiersData[1].SelfIdentifierData.SelfIdentifierType.SelfIdentifierType
Then ideally, I would be able to take that list and parse the same JSON object to get each value present.
//after list is created
Object document = Configuration.defaultConfiguration().jsonProvider().parse(json);
for (String path : jsonPaths) {
Object value = JsonPath.read(document, path);
//do something
}
I am aware that I could get a Map that is a representation of the JSON file, but I am not sure that provides the same ease of access to retrieve all the values. If there is a easy way to do with JSONPath, that would be great, otherwise any other approaches are welcome.