convert string to json java code example

Example 1: convert json string to json object in java

try {
     JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject("{\"phonetype\":\"N95\",\"cat\":\"WP\"}");
}catch (JSONException err){
     Log.d("Error", err.toString());
}

Example 2: decode json file in java tutorial

package com.howtodoinjava.demo.jsonsimple;
 
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
 
import org.json.simple.JSONArray;
import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
 
public class WriteJSONExample
{
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
        //First Employee
        JSONObject employeeDetails = new JSONObject();
        employeeDetails.put("firstName", "Lokesh");
        employeeDetails.put("lastName", "Gupta");
        employeeDetails.put("website", "howtodoinjava.com");
         
        JSONObject employeeObject = new JSONObject(); 
        employeeObject.put("employee", employeeDetails);
         
        //Second Employee
        JSONObject employeeDetails2 = new JSONObject();
        employeeDetails2.put("firstName", "Brian");
        employeeDetails2.put("lastName", "Schultz");
        employeeDetails2.put("website", "example.com");
         
        JSONObject employeeObject2 = new JSONObject(); 
        employeeObject2.put("employee", employeeDetails2);
         
        //Add employees to list
        JSONArray employeeList = new JSONArray();
        employeeList.add(employeeObject);
        employeeList.add(employeeObject2);
         
        //Write JSON file
        try (FileWriter file = new FileWriter("employees.json")) {
 
            file.write(employeeList.toJSONString());
            file.flush();
 
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Example 3: how to convert json to java object

Jackson Data-bind depdendency that take care of 
Converting between 
JSON to Java Object 
and 
Java Object to JSON

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
    <version>2.12.0</version>
</dependency>