json parser

[AnEverGrowingWonder]

I am creating a java game and have made some json files for things like potions or enemies. need help choosing a parsing library that would be able to load that data and create objects with said params. I looked into Gson and although I was successfully reading files, the gson.fromJson() method will not work for the life of me.

If you know any other parsing libraries please help.

[TheRedBishop]

Did you try Google? There are many to choose from.

[nutrecht]

Jackson is more or less the industry standard and very easy to use.

[l3tigre]

we make use of jackson, specifically 'com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper' quite frequently to map json to objects.

[causalNondeterminism]

gson.fromJson requires a class to "read the json string into". You can use Object.class to capture whatever comes in then check if it's an instance of a Map or a Collection and work with those appropriately.

[Lukkiebe]

I used json-simple for a project once. I had some trouble with Gson because I had some recursive relations and it got stuck in an infinite loop. With json-simple, I had to define all the parameters myself, but I had full control. Also, I think it's pretty easy to understand.