Working with JSON data on the Play Framework for Scala: Examples

Working with JSON data on the Play Framework for Scala: Examples

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Working with JSON data on the Play Framework for Scala: Examples
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Building JsObject piece by piece

import play.api.libs.json._

val person = Json.obj(
    "name" -> "John Doe",
    "age" -> 26)

// {name: "John Doe", age: 26}

A JsValue can be any json value, such as a JsObject, JsArray and so on

Parsing a JSON String into a JSValue

import play.api.libs.json._

val myString = """{ "foo":"bar" }"""

val json: JsValue = Json.parse(myString)
// json is a JsValue

Converting a JSObject back into a String

import play.api.libs.json._

val person = Json.obj(
    "name" -> "John Doe",
    "age" -> 26)

val myString:String = Json.stringify(person)

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