How to parse JSON in Kotlin?

Without external library (on Android)

To parse this:

val jsonString = """
    {
       "type":"Foo",
       "data":[
          {
             "id":1,
             "title":"Hello"
          },
          {
             "id":2,
             "title":"World"
          }
       ]
    }        
"""

Use these classes:

import org.json.JSONObject

class Response(json: String) : JSONObject(json) {
    val type: String? = this.optString("type")
    val data = this.optJSONArray("data")
            ?.let { 0.until(it.length()).map { i -> it.optJSONObject(i) } } // returns an array of JSONObject
            ?.map { Foo(it.toString()) } // transforms each JSONObject of the array into Foo
}

class Foo(json: String) : JSONObject(json) {
    val id = this.optInt("id")
    val title: String? = this.optString("title")
}

Usage:

val foos = Response(jsonString)

You can use Gson .

Example

Step 1

Add compile

compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.2'

Step 2

Convert json to Kotlin Bean(use JsonToKotlinClass)

Like this

Json data

{
"timestamp": "2018-02-13 15:45:45",
"code": "OK",
"message": "user info",
"path": "/user/info",
"data": {
    "userId": 8,
    "avatar": "/uploads/image/20180115/1516009286213053126.jpeg",
    "nickname": "",
    "gender": 0,
    "birthday": 1525968000000,
    "age": 0,
    "province": "",
    "city": "",
    "district": "",
    "workStatus": "Student",
    "userType": 0
},
"errorDetail": null
}

Kotlin Bean

class MineUserEntity {

    data class MineUserInfo(
        val timestamp: String,
        val code: String,
        val message: String,
        val path: String,
        val data: Data,
        val errorDetail: Any
    )

    data class Data(
        val userId: Int,
        val avatar: String,
        val nickname: String,
        val gender: Int,
        val birthday: Long,
        val age: Int,
        val province: String,
        val city: String,
        val district: String,
        val workStatus: String,
        val userType: Int
    )
}

Step 3

Use Gson

var gson = Gson()
var mMineUserEntity = gson?.fromJson(response, MineUserEntity.MineUserInfo::class.java)

There is no question that the future of parsing in Kotlin will be with kotlinx.serialization. It is part of Kotlin libraries. Version kotlinx.serialization 1.0 is finally released

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization

import kotlinx.serialization.*
import kotlinx.serialization.json.JSON

@Serializable
data class MyModel(val a: Int, @Optional val b: String = "42")

fun main(args: Array<String>) {

    // serializing objects
    val jsonData = JSON.stringify(MyModel.serializer(), MyModel(42))
    println(jsonData) // {"a": 42, "b": "42"}
    
    // serializing lists
    val jsonList = JSON.stringify(MyModel.serializer().list, listOf(MyModel(42)))
    println(jsonList) // [{"a": 42, "b": "42"}]

    // parsing data back
    val obj = JSON.parse(MyModel.serializer(), """{"a":42}""")
    println(obj) // MyModel(a=42, b="42")
}

You can use this library https://github.com/cbeust/klaxon

Klaxon is a lightweight library to parse JSON in Kotlin.