The only JSON parser for java on www.json.org works, but for me, its too large a workhorse for such a small task as parsing a String into an object. On the JSON website, they have done a lot of work to describe a sort of BNF for what a JSON String looks like, so my solution is this, write a parser(I am comfortable with javacc) that parses JSON Strings and return simple everyday objects, not class wrappers and all that.

A JSON string is either a List, A Map or any Value, so Mason is a parser that parses a JSON String and returns any of this value.

Its so simple to use and straight forward.

sample code?? I’ll show you some

            FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(new File("/home/trinisoftinc/src/mason/lib/test.json"));

            Mason parser = new Mason(fis);

            parser.parse();

            System.out.println("FINAL Map: " + parser.finalMap);

            System.out.println("FINAL Array: " + parser.finalArray);

If the file test.json is a List, only finalArray is populated. finalArray is an ArrayList, finalMap is an Hashtable and finalValue is just an Object