java - Skip root element while deserializing json

Question

How should I deserialize following JSON to skip root element and parse just the inner part of this JSON. I'd like to avoid creating additional, 3rd class Root, which would include only MapWrapper field.

{
    "root": {
        "language": "en",
        "map": {
            "k1": {
                "name": "n1",
            },
            "k2": {
                "name": "n2",
            }
        }
    }
}

So I'd like to have only these two classes:

class MapWrapper {
    private String language;
    private Map<String, MyMapEntry> map;
}

class MyMapEntry {
    String name;
}

Answer 1

you can use GSON Library for this.

Below code will solve your problem.

public class ConvertJsonToObject {

    private static Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().create();

    public static final <T> T getFromJSON(String json, Class<T> clazz) {
        return gson.fromJson(json, clazz);
    }

    public static final <T> String toJSON(T clazz) {
        return gson.toJson(clazz);
    }
}

String json; // your jsonString
Map<String,Object> r = ConvertJsonToObject.getFromJSON(json,Map.class);
String innerJson = ConvertJsonToObject.toJson(r.get("root"));
MapWrapper _r = ConvertJsonToObject.getFromJSON(innerJson,MapWrapper.class);