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?
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.
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>