Chapter 6. Working with JSON in Groovy
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Parsing JSON messages with JsonSlurper
- Constructing JSON messages with JsonBuilder
- Modifying JSON messages
- Validating JSON messages
- Converting JSON message to XML
- Converting JSON message to Groovy Bean
- Using JSON to configure your scripts
Introduction
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) (http://www.json.org/) is a data interchange format, similar in scope to XML or CSV. It uses a very lightweight serialization form and works very well for exchanging data between a web client (a browser) and a remote server, but it is not limited to only that.
JSON is also a subset of the object literal notation of JavaScript. Being a subset of JavaScript implies that a JSON payload can be processed by ...
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