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Translating String[] to JSON and JSON to String[] with Jackson
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import org.junit.Test;
import java.io.IOException;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
public class JacksonTest {
@Test
public void testArrayToJson() {
String[] parameters = { "apple", "lemon", "banana" };
ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
String list = null;
try {
list = objectMapper.writeValueAsString(parameters);
} catch (JsonProcessingException ex ) {
}
assertEquals(list, "[\"apple\",\"lemon\",\"banana\"]");
}
@Test
public void testJsonToArray() {
ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
String jsonList = "[\"apple\", \"lemon\", \"banana\"]";
String[] list = null;
try {
list = objectMapper.readValue(jsonList, String[].class);
} catch (IOException e) {
}
assertEquals(list[0], "apple");
assertEquals(list[1], "lemon");
assertEquals(list[2], "banana");
}
@Test
public void testEmptyArrayToJson() {
String[] parameters = { };
ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
String list = null;
try {
list = objectMapper.writeValueAsString(parameters);
} catch (JsonProcessingException ex ) {
}
assertEquals(list, "[]");
}
@Test
public void testEmptyJsonToArray() {
ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
String jsonList = "[]";
String[] list = null;
try {
list = objectMapper.readValue(jsonList, String[].class);
} catch (IOException e) {
}
assertEquals(list.length, 0);
}
@Test
public void testArrayWithTextToJsonAndBackToArray() {
String text = "\"Be or not to be\nThat's the question\"\n(Shakespare)";
String[] parameters = { text };
ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
String[] list = null;
try {
String jsonList = objectMapper.writeValueAsString(parameters);
list = objectMapper.readValue(jsonList, String[].class);
}
catch (JsonProcessingException ex ) {
}
catch (IOException ex) {
}
assertEquals(list.length, 1);
assertEquals(list[0], text);
}
}
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