parsing a Json Array in play framework JsObject
Solution 1
I'd argue that it's generally a good idea to move from JSON-land to native-Scala-representation-land as early as possible. If obj
is your JsObject
, for example, you can write this:
val subCategories = (obj \ "sub-categories").as[List[Map[String, String]]]
val names = subCategories.map(_("name"))
Or even:
case class Category(name: String, subs: List[String])
import play.api.libs.functional.syntax._
implicit val categoryReader = (
(__ \ "web-category").read[String] and
(__ \ "sub-categories").read[List[Map[String, String]]].map(_.map(_("name")))
)(Category)
And then:
obj.as[Category]
This latter approach makes error handling even cleaner (e.g. you can just replace as
with asOpt
at this top level) and composes nicely with other Reads
type class instances—if you have a JsArray
of these objects, for example, you can just write array.as[List[Category]]
and get what you expect.
Solution 2
What Peter said, or:
(o \ "sub-categories" \\ "name").map(_.as[String]).toList
Solution 3
Something like this:
subCats.map( jsarray => jsarray.value.map(jsvalue => (jsvalue \ "name").as[String]).toList)
This will normally return a Option[List[String]]
Zuriar
Updated on February 27, 2020Comments
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Zuriar about 4 years
I have the following Json:
{ "web-category" : "macaroons", "sub-categories" : [ { "name" : "pink" }, { "name" : "blue" }, { "name" : "green" } ] }
I have got it in Play as a JsObject. So I can now successfully do the following:
//(o is the JsObject) val webCat:Option[String] = (o \ "web-category").asOpt[String] println(webCat.toString) >> Some(macaroons)
So far, so good. But how do I access the array Json objects? I have this...
val subCats:Option[JsArray] = (o \ "sub-categories").asOpt[JsArray] println(subCats.toString) >> Some([{"name" : "blue"},{"name" : "green"},{"name" : "pink"}])
but what I need is to take the JsArray and get a List of all the names something like this:
List("blue", "green", "pink")
Don't know how to access the JsArray thusly.
my thanks for your help in this.
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Zuriar about 10 yearsEdit no I don't, my bad. I used 'sub-category' in actual fact, not 'sub-categories. Thanks for your help!