How to convert hashmap to JSON object in Java

You can convert Map to JSON using Jackson as follows:

Map<String,Object> map = new HashMap<>();
//You can convert any Object.
String[] value1 = new String[] { "value11", "value12", "value13" };
String[] value2 = new String[] { "value21", "value22", "value23" };
map.put("key1", value1);
map.put("key2", value2);
map.put("key3","string1");
map.put("key4","string2");

String json = new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(map);
System.out.println(json);

Maven Dependencies for Jackson :

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
    <version>2.5.3</version>
    <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
    <version>2.5.3</version>
    <scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>

If you are using `JSONObject` library, you can convert map to `JSON` as follows:

JSONObject Library: import org.json.JSONObject;

Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<>();
// Convert a map having list of values.
String[] value1 = new String[] { "value11", "value12", "value13" };
String[] value2 = new String[] { "value21", "value22", "value23" };
map.put("key1", value1);
map.put("key2", value2);

JSONObject json = new JSONObject(map);
System.out.println(json);

Maven Dependencies for `JSONObject` :

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.json</groupId>
    <artifactId>json</artifactId>
    <version>20140107</version>
</dependency>

Hope this will help. Happy coding.

You can use:

new JSONObject(map);

Other functions you can get from its documentation
http://stleary.github.io/JSON-java/index.html

Gson can also be used to serialize arbitrarily complex objects.

Here is how you use it:

Gson gson = new Gson(); 
String json = gson.toJson(myObject); 

Gson will automatically convert collections to JSON arrays. Gson can serialize private fields and automatically ignores transient fields.