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JAVA : How to convert YAML To JSON?

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Here is code to convert YAML document to JSON by Jackson and snakeyml apis. Jackson also support YAML support.

Pre-Requisite


<dependencies>
        <!-- Jackson JSON Processor -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
            <version>2.4.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- For YAML -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.yaml</groupId>
            <artifactId>snakeyaml</artifactId>
            <version>1.21</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
            <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-yaml</artifactId>
            <version>2.1.2</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

Sample YAML File


---
# My personal record
name: Saurabh Kumar Gupta
Title: Sr. Project Lead
skill: JAVA/J2EE
employed: True
domains:
    - Telecom
    - Finance
    - Banking
    - Healthcare
languages:
    ELK: Medium
    JAVA: Expertize
    Scripting: Comfortable
education: |
    MCA
    B.Sc
    Diploma
...

Code to convert YAML to JSON data

package com.fiot.examples.yaml;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.yaml.YAMLFactory;

public class ConvertYAMLToJSON {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		String content = &quot;&quot;;
		try {
			content = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(
					&quot;F:\\Workspace-Blog\\TestExamples\\src\\main\\resources\\YAMLDocument.yaml&quot;)));
			System.out.println(&quot;*********Content from YAML File ****************&quot;);
			System.out.println(content);
			String json = convertYamlToJson(content);
			System.out.println(&quot;*********Cnverted JSON from YAML File ****************&quot;);
			System.out.println(json);
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

	private static String convertYamlToJson(String yaml) {
		try {
			ObjectMapper yamlReader = new ObjectMapper(new YAMLFactory());
			Object obj = yamlReader.readValue(yaml, Object.class);
			ObjectMapper jsonWriter = new ObjectMapper();
			return jsonWriter.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(obj);
		} catch (JsonProcessingException ex) {
			ex.printStackTrace();
		} catch (IOException ex) {
			ex.printStackTrace();
		}
		return null;
	}
}

Output


*********Content from YAML File ****************
---
# My personal record
name: Saurabh Kumar Gupta
Title: Sr. Project Lead
skill: JAVA/J2EE
employed: True
domains:
    - Telecom
    - Finance
    - Banking
    - Healthcare
languages:
    ELK: Medium
    JAVA: Expertize
    Scripting: Comfortable
education: |
    MCA
    B.Sc
    Diploma
...
*********Cnverted JSON from YAML File ****************
{
  "name" : "Saurabh Kumar Gupta",
  "Title" : "Sr. Project Lead",
  "skill" : "JAVA/J2EE",
  "employed" : true,
  "domains" : [ "Telecom", "Finance", "Banking", "Healthcare" ],
  "languages" : {
    "ELK" : "Medium",
    "JAVA" : "Expertize",
    "Scripting" : "Comfortable"
  },
  "education" : "MCA\nB.Sc\nDiploma\n"
}

Below are some online tools to convert YAML/YML to JSON.
https://codebeautify.org/yaml-to-json-xml-csv
http://convertjson.com/yaml-to-json.htm

More

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