JacksonFilterNodes.java

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ArrayNode;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Arrays;

public class JacksonFilterNodes {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        //read the JSON file into POJOs
        ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
        File file = new File("./data.json");
        JsonNode[] payments = objectMapper.readValue(file, JsonNode[].class);

        //convert the property representing the transactions into an ArrayList
        List<JsonNode> paymentsList = new ArrayList<JsonNode>(Arrays.asList(payments));

        //Filter the transactions whose status isn't received
        paymentsList.removeIf((JsonNode p) -> p.get("status").asText() == null || !p.get("status").asText().equals("Received"));

        for (JsonNode p : paymentsList) {
            System.out.println(p.get("status").asText());
        }

        String jsonAry = objectMapper.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(paymentsList);
        System.out.println(jsonAry);

    }
}