JSONUtils

Class FQN: it.greenvulcano.util.json.JSONUtils

Following the JSONUtils public static methods

• Parsing & Conversion

/**
 * Convert the input XML to a JSONObject.
 * JSON does not distinguish between elements and attributes.
 * Sequences of similar elements are represented as JSONArrays.
 * If an element have attributes, content text/cdata may be placed in a "contentText" member.
 * Comments and namespaces are ignored.
 * If the root element is 'DEFAULT_ROOT' then isn't included into JSON output.
 * 
 * @param xml
 *        the document to convert
 * @return a JSONObject representing the JSON document
 * @throws JSONUtilsException when error occurs
 */
public static JSONObject xmlToJson(Object xml) throws JSONUtilsException

/**
 * Convert the input XML to a JSONObject.
 * JSON does not distinguish between elements and attributes.
 * Sequences of similar elements (or elements which local-name are in forceElementsArray)
 * are represented as JSONArrays. 
 * If an element have attributes, content text/cdata may be placed in a "contentText" member.
 * Comments and namespaces are ignored.
 * If the root element is 'DEFAULT_ROOT' then isn't included into JSON output.
 *
 * @param xml
 *        the document to convert
 * @param forceElementsArray
 *        a set containing element's local-name to be forced as JSONArray also if in single instance
 * @param forceStringValue
 *        a set containing element's local-name to be forced as String values, ignoring type conversions
 * @return a JSONObject representing the XML document
 * @throws JSONUtilsException
 */
public static JSONObject xmlToJson(Object xml, Set<String> forceElementsArray, Set<String> forceStringValue) throws JSONUtilsException

/**
 * Convert a JSONObject into an XML structure.
 * If the JSON to be converted doesn't have a single root element 
 * then is automatically created a 'DEFAULT_ROOT' root element.
 * 
 * @param json 
 *        a JSONObject
 * @return a Node representing the JSON document
 * @throws  JSONException
 */
public static Node jsonToXml(Object json) throws JSONUtilsException

/**
 * Convert a JSONObject into an XML structure.
 * If the JSON to be converted doesn't have a single root element 
 * then is automatically created a 'DEFAULT_ROOT' root element.
 * 
 * @param json 
 *        a JSONObject
 * @param forceAttribute
 *        a set containing keys name to be set as XML attributes
 * @return a Node representing the JSON document
 * @throws  JSONException
 */
public static Node jsonToXml(Object json, Set<String> forceAttributes) throws JSONUtilsException

/**
 * Convert a JSONObject into Node structure.
 * If not specified a rootName and the JSON to be converted doesn't have
 * a single root element then is automatically created a 'DEFAULT_ROOT' root element.
 * 
 * @param json
 *        a JSONObject
 * @param rootName
 *        the optional name of the root element
 * @return a Node representing the JSON document
 * @throws JSONUtilsException
 */
public static Node jsonToXml(Object json, String rootName) throws JSONUtilsException

/**
 * Convert a JSONObject into Node structure.
 * If not specified a rootName and the JSON to be converted doesn't have
 * a single root element then is automatically created a 'DEFAULT_ROOT' root element.
 * 
 * @param json
 *        a JSONObject
 * @param rootName
 *        the optional name of the root element
 * @param forceAttributes
 *        a set containing keys name to be set as XML attributes
 * @return a Node representing the JSON document
 * @throws JSONUtilsException
 */
public static Node jsonToXml(Object json, String rootName, Set<String> forceAttributes) throws JSONUtilsException

/**
 * Convert the input XML to a JSONObject using BadgerFish convention.
 * See <a href="http://badgerfish.ning.com">http://badgerfish.ning.com</a>
 * 
 * @param xml
 *        the document to convert
 * @return a JSONObject representing the XML document
 * @throws JSONUtilsException
 */
public static JSONObject xmlToJson_BadgerFish(Object xml) throws JSONUtilsException

/**
 * Convert a JSONObject in BadgerFish notation into Node structure.
 * See <a href="http://badgerfish.ning.com">http://badgerfish.ning.com</a>
 * 
 * @param json
 *        a JSONObject
 * @return a Node representing the JSON document
 * @throws JSONUtilsException
 */
public static Node jsonToXml_BadgerFish(Object json) throws JSONUtilsException