Data

Data is used to store information and convert it to JSON or convert JSON to Data objects

Installation

Add it as implementation to your build.gradle.

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    implementation 'de.linusdev:data:[version]'
}

Replace [version] with the version you want to use.

Getting Started

A data can be converted to a json string and vice verca.

SOData to Json

First create a data using the static methods of SOData. SOData.newOrderedDataWithKnownSize(10) will create a new data, which is backed by an ArrayList with the initial capacity 10. It is possible to add more than 10 entries.

The simplest way of adding entries to a data is by using the add function: add(String key, Object value). value can be any primitive data type, String, Array, Collection or Datable.

To parse the data to a json-string simply call the toJsonString() method:

//create a new data
SOData data = SOData.newOrderedDataWithKnownSize(10);

//add entries
data.add("key", "value");
data.add("a int", 10);
data.add("something else", new String[]{"1", "a", "2"});

//parse it to a json string
System.out.println(data.toJsonString());

The output will look like that:

{
	"key": "value",
	"a int": 10,
	"something else": [
		"1",
		"a",
		"2"
	]
}

Json to SOData

To parse a json string to a data you need to get a instance of a JsonParser:

JsonParser parser = new JsonParser();

With this parser you can parse a Reader or an Inputstream:

SOData dataFromReader = parser.parseReader(reader);
SOData dataFromStream = parser.parseStream(inputStream);

Here is an example of parsing a String to a SOData:

String json = "{...}";
Reader reader = new StringReader(json);
        
JsonParser parser = new JsonParser();
SOData data = parser.parseReader(reader);

If you want to parse a json array to a data you can use the function setArrayWrapperKey(String key). After parsing the array will then be accessible with the given key as a List<Object>:

String json = "[1,2,3]";
Reader reader = new StringReader(json);

JsonParser parser = new JsonParser();
parser.setArrayWrapperKey("array");

SOData data = parser.parseReader(reader);
List<Object> list = data.getList("array");

System.out.println(list);

The above code will give the following output:

[1,2,3]