I have a JSON file that is stored in the DB after parsing it using JAVA functions. The JSON has an attribute that has multiple lines and should be well formatted. Right now, I am using \n & \t to format this string. Is there a better way to format this string in the JSON? I could use any markup language if available.

"Actions": "Actions required: \n1. Action 1 \n2. Action 2 \n \n Other Actions \n1. Action3 \n2. Action 4

CodePudding user response：

There are a few JSON solutions for Java. I have used JSON-simple and GSON. I think GSON is better because JSON-simple has not been updated in quite some time. Here's the Maven repo for GSON https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.code.gson/gson

If you need to read an JSON-formatted file, you will do something like this:

Gson gsonObj = new Gson();
YourClass yourObj = new YourClass();

Once you have the GSON object, if the object that your are serializing/deserializing is a ParameterizedType (i.e. contains at least one type parameter and may be an array) then you must use the toJson(Object, Type) or fromJson(String, Type). In your case, you need to convert to a String (to JSON).

String json = gsonObj.toJson(yourObj, new FileWriter("C:\\myjsonfile.json"));

BUT, if your object is simple, you can simply do the following.

String json = gsonObj.toJson(youObj);