README.md

SimpleJSONAPI

A simple API for JSON in Java

This repository offers an API and a working implementation. You can view the API in the api package and the implementation in the impl package.

How to use

Instance a JSON reader, such as JsonReaderImplementation, and use its read() method to obtain a JSON structure from the source.

With a JSON value, you can call the method get(String... keys) to get any JSON value within it and the method as(Class<?> resultClass) to get the JSON value as the given class as long as it's class supported by the implementation.

For example, if you have the JSON value:

{
	"employees": [
		{
			"name": "Mary"
		},
		{
			"name": "Paul"
		}
	]
}

This would be used to obtain the name of the first employee:

String firstEmployeeName = jsonValue.get("employees", 0, "name").as(String.class);