{"id":15436,"date":"2024-03-15T11:09:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T11:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-does-springboot-read-json-files\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T18:35:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:35:59","slug":"how-does-springboot-read-json-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-does-springboot-read-json-files\/","title":{"rendered":"How does SpringBoot read JSON files?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring Boot has the ability to utilize the Jackson library to read JSON files.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, you need to add the Jackson library dependency in the pom.xml file.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;<span class=\"hljs-name\">dependencies<\/span>&gt;<\/span>\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-comment\">&lt;!-- \u6dfb\u52a0Jackson\u5e93\u4f9d\u8d56 --&gt;<\/span>\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;<span class=\"hljs-name\">dependency<\/span>&gt;<\/span>\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;<span class=\"hljs-name\">groupId<\/span>&gt;<\/span>com.fasterxml.jackson.core<span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;\/<span class=\"hljs-name\">groupId<\/span>&gt;<\/span>\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;<span class=\"hljs-name\">artifactId<\/span>&gt;<\/span>jackson-databind<span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;\/<span class=\"hljs-name\">artifactId<\/span>&gt;<\/span>\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;\/<span class=\"hljs-name\">dependency<\/span>&gt;<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-tag\">&lt;\/<span class=\"hljs-name\">dependencies<\/span>&gt;<\/span>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Then, in the code of Spring Boot, use the ObjectMapper class to read the JSON file. Assume there is a file named data.json with the following content:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-punctuation\">{<\/span>\r\n  <span class=\"hljs-attr\">\"name\"<\/span><span class=\"hljs-punctuation\">:<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"John Doe\"<\/span><span class=\"hljs-punctuation\">,<\/span>\r\n  <span class=\"hljs-attr\">\"age\"<\/span><span class=\"hljs-punctuation\">:<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-number\">30<\/span><span class=\"hljs-punctuation\">,<\/span>\r\n  <span class=\"hljs-attr\">\"email\"<\/span><span class=\"hljs-punctuation\">:<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"john.doe@example.com\"<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-punctuation\">}<\/span>\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>You can use the following code to read the JSON file:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">import<\/span> com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">import<\/span> java.io.File;\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">import<\/span> java.io.IOException;\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">public<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">class<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title class_\">JsonReader<\/span> {\r\n\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">public<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">static<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">void<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title function_\">main<\/span><span class=\"hljs-params\">(String[] args)<\/span> {\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-type\">ObjectMapper<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-variable\">objectMapper<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-operator\">=<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">new<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title class_\">ObjectMapper<\/span>();\r\n\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">try<\/span> {\r\n            <span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/ \u8bfb\u53d6JSON\u6587\u4ef6<\/span>\r\n            <span class=\"hljs-type\">File<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-variable\">file<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-operator\">=<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">new<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title class_\">File<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"data.json\"<\/span>);\r\n\r\n            <span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/ \u5c06JSON\u6587\u4ef6\u8f6c\u6362\u4e3aJava\u5bf9\u8c61<\/span>\r\n            <span class=\"hljs-type\">User<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-variable\">user<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-operator\">=<\/span> objectMapper.readValue(file, User.class);\r\n\r\n            <span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/ \u6253\u5370Java\u5bf9\u8c61<\/span>\r\n            System.out.println(user);\r\n\r\n        } <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">catch<\/span> (IOException e) {\r\n            e.printStackTrace();\r\n        }\r\n    }\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the code above, we used the readValue() method of the ObjectMapper to convert a JSON file into a Java object. In this example, we created a User class to represent the structure of the JSON file.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">public<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">class<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title class_\">User<\/span> {\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">private<\/span> String name;\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">private<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-type\">int<\/span> age;\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">private<\/span> String email;\r\n\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/ getter\u548csetter\u65b9\u6cd5<\/span>\r\n\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-meta\">@Override<\/span>\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">public<\/span> String <span class=\"hljs-title function_\">toString<\/span><span class=\"hljs-params\">()<\/span> {\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">return<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"User{\"<\/span> +\r\n                <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"name='\"<\/span> + name + <span class=\"hljs-string\">'\\''<\/span> +\r\n                <span class=\"hljs-string\">\", age=\"<\/span> + age +\r\n                <span class=\"hljs-string\">\", email='\"<\/span> + email + <span class=\"hljs-string\">'\\''<\/span> +\r\n                <span class=\"hljs-string\">'}'<\/span>;\r\n    }\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Finally, you can run the code to read the JSON file and convert it into a Java object.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring Boot has the ability to utilize the Jackson library to read JSON files. 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