javajsonminify

How do I get the compact/minified form of pretty-printed JSON in Java?


How do I make Jackson's build() method pretty-print its JSON output? is an example that pretty-prints the JSON string.

I need to take the pretty-printed version of JSON string and then convert it to the compact/minified form. How can it be done?

I need to convert this:

{
  "one" : "AAA",
  "two" : [ "B B", "CCC" ],
  "three" : {
    "four" : "D D",
    "five" : [ "EEE", "FFF" ]
  }
}

to this:

{"one":"AAA","two":["B B","CCC"],"three":{"four":"D D","five":["EEE","FFF"]}}

I tried to remove '\n', '\t', and ' ' characters; but there may be some of these characters in values so I can't do that.

What else can be done?


Solution

  • Jackson allows you to read from a JSON string, so read the pretty-printed string back into Jackson and then output it again with pretty-print disabled.

    See converting a String to JSON.


    Simple Example

    String prettyJsonString = "{ \"Hello\" : \"world\"}";
    
    ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
    JsonNode jsonNode = objectMapper.readValue(prettyJsonString, JsonNode.class);
    
    System.out.println(jsonNode.toString());
    

    Requires

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