I am currently creating a web-application where the users can fetch tags from the database as JSON,
here is my struts action
public String execute(){
Gson gson = new Gson();
String tagsAsJson = gson.toJson(audioTaggingService.findTagsByName(q));
System.out.println(tagsAsJson);
return "success";
}
UPDATE:
The tagsAsJson
is already in a JSON format all I want is to return only that, and not the whole class action itself.
It returns something like this
This is the data I want to return to the user
[{"id":2,"name":"Dubstep","description":"Dub wob wob"},{"id":3,"name":"BoysIIMen","description":"A 1990s Boy Band"},{"id":4,"name":"Sylenth1","description":"A VST Plugin for FLStudio "}]
How do I return the tagsAsJson
as a r JSON esponse? since that JSON response will be used by the client side code.
To return a JSON response you need to include the struts2-json-plugin-2.x.x.jar file in your project build path You will need to set package extends="json-default" result type is json.
struts2-json-plugin-2.x.x.jar file allows you to serialize the Action class attribute which has setters into a JSON object.
Get the jar dependencies from maven
You can get the complete help from this link...
Struts 2 and JSON response
In Action class put below code.
In JSP put below code
This will print JSON data if you want to manipulate JSON data you cat the data in var
<s:set>
tag and access the variable in entire page.Try using the response's PrintWriter.
Java
Use the Struts "JSON Plugin".
Quite easy, three steps:
Just include it in your maven project like this
Declare the field you'd like to return as JSON string like the field of your action, provide the getter and setter.
And, finally, put this in your XML:
Pay attention to
<param name="root">jsonString</param>
. This piece of xml tells Struts2 that this exact property should be considered as a root for JSON serialization. So only the named property (and below, if it's a map or whatsoever) will be returned in a JSON response.Thanks to the JSON Plugin the content type will be correct.
"JSON Plugin" documentation is here: http://struts.apache.org/release/2.3.x/docs/json-plugin.html