Since statically typed languages lack native support for JSON, the Java SDK uses the OptimizelyJSON object to retrieve JSON in a flexible way.

Version

SDK v3.5 and higher

Methods

You can access JSON representations with the following methods:

Method	Parameters	Description
`toString`	none	Returns a string representation of the JSON object
`toMap`	none	Returns a map representation of the JSON object: `(Map<String,Object>)`
`getValue`	`String jsonKey, Class<T> clazz`	Returns a specified schema object (`T`) with the key/value pair of the JSON key you pass to this method. If JSON key is null or empty, it populates your schema object with all JSON key/value pairs. You can retrieve information for a nested member of the JSON data structure by using flattened JSON dot notation. For example, if you want to access the key `nestedField` in `{field1: {nestedField: "blah"}}`, you can call `getValue` with the parameter `"field1.nestedField2"`.

Method

Parameters

Description

toString

none

Returns a string representation of the JSON object

toMap

none

Returns a map representation of the JSON object: (Map<String,Object>)

getValue

String jsonKey, Class<T> clazz

Returns a specified schema object (T) with the key/value pair of the JSON key you pass to this method.

If JSON key is null or empty, it populates your schema object with all JSON key/value pairs.

You can retrieve information for a nested member of the JSON data structure by using flattened JSON dot notation.
For example, if you want to access the key nestedField in {field1: {nestedField: "blah"}}, you can call getValue with the parameter "field1.nestedField2".

The OptimizelyJSON object is defined as follows:

public class OptimizelyJSON {
    public String toString();
  
    public Map<String,Object> toMap();
  
    public <T> T getValue(@Nullable String jsonKey, Class<T> clazz) throws JsonParseException
}

Examples

You can easily use OptimizelyJSON object, for example to:

Get a JSON string by calling the toString method, or
Retrieve a specified schema from the OptimizelyJSON object by calling the getValue method.

The following example shows how to use an OptimizelyJSON object to populate a schema object you declare.

//declare a schema object into which you want to unmarshal OptimizelyJson content:
public static class SSub {
    public string field
}
public static class SObj {
    public int field1 
    public double field2
    public string field3
    public SSub field4 
}

//parse all json key/value pairs into your schema, sObj
SObj robj = optlyJSON.getValue(null, SObj.class);

//or, parse the specified key/value pair with an integer value 
Integer rint = optlyJSON.getValue("field1", Integer.class) 

//or, parse the specified key/value pair with a string value
var strValue string
SSub rsub = optlyJSON.getValue("field4.field", SSub.class)