Tag Archives: JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

Creating JSON document using Java and GSON API

May 5, 2012

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We saw how to parse JSON using GSON API, in this post we would take a look at how the same GSON API can be used to create JSON from the Java objects. Please read this to get an idea of what GSON is. Diving right into the topic of this example, we would make use [...]

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Using JsonSlurper Groovy API from Java to parse JSON

May 3, 2012

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We have seen here on how to parse JSON in Java using Gson and here on how to parse JSON in Groovy. I also touched upon in brief about Groovy here. The beauty of these JVM languages is that one can invoke these APIs from Java, the only requirement is that you need to have [...]

Invoking RESTful Web Service using API in java.net and GSON

May 1, 2012

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In our previous post, we wrote about parsing JSON using Java and GSON library. Moving further, in this article we will look at how to use classes in java.net package to invoke a RESTful Web Service and then parse the JSON response using GSON library. For this we make use of the Twitter REST API [...]

Parsing JSON using Java and GSON library

April 30, 2012

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In my previous post here, I gave a brief overview of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). In this post I would go a bit further and show how one can parse the JSON documents into Java objects using the GSON library. The JSON data for this tutorial was obtained from: “https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?screen_name=” where screen_name was TwitterAPI and [...]

What is JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)?

April 28, 2012

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A quick JSON search on Google would yield plenty of results and more specifically the JSON homepage. None the less we wanted to share something brief and something good about JSON. Lot of you are familiar with XML and XML had been the defacto data-transfer language in the area of RESTful webservices, but off late [...]