Jackson (API)

Jackson
Stable release
2.14.2 / January 29, 2023; 22 months ago (2023-01-29)
Repository
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeAPI for JSON
LicenseApache License 2.0
Websitegithub.com/FasterXML/jackson Edit this on Wikidata

In computing, Jackson is a high-performance JSON processor for Java. Its developers extol the combination of fast, correct, lightweight, and ergonomic attributes of the library.[1][2]

Implementation

Jackson provides multiple approaches to working with JSON, including using binding annotations on POJO classes for simple use cases.[3][1]

Usage example

Sample code for reading and writing with POJOs may look like the following:[1] 

public class ReadWriteJackson {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
   
    String jsonInput = "{\"id\":0,\"firstName\":\"Robin\",\"lastName\":\"Wilson\"}";
    Person q = mapper.readValue(jsonInput, Person.class);
    System.out.println("Read and parsed Person from JSON: " + q);
   
    Person p = new Person("Roger", "Rabbit");
    System.out.print("Person object " + p + " as JSON = ");
    mapper.writeValue(System.out, p);
  }
}

References

  1. ^ a b c "History". FasterXML. Archived from the original on 11 February 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  2. ^ Young, T.M. (2013). The Jackson Cookbook. Leanpub.
  3. ^ Darwin, I.F. (2014). Java Cookbook (3rd ed.). Sebastopol, USA: O'Reilly. pp. 656–657.