Re: Doing a recursive JSON.readFull

> It's a Seq of pairs? So why not just transform it with recursive pattern
> matching to Map(seq: _*) or while you're at it, to java collections, also
> shouldn't be too hard--just foreach and say case (key,
> value)=>jmap.put(key,value) etc. 2.8 should have bidirectional conversions
> anyway.
>
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> Mario Camou<mcamou@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I need to read some JSON data from a server. I need the data to be parsed
> into Maps of Lists of Maps (or Maps of Maps, or Lists of Lists of Maps, you
> get the idea). I was going through the scaladocs for the Scala library and
> found scala.util.parsing.json.JSON.parseFull, whose docs state that it
> "Parse the given JSON string and return either a List[Any] if the JSON
> string specifies an Array, or a Map[String,Any] if the JSON string
> specifies
> an object". I thought that was just what I needed, but it turns out it
> works
> only for the first level, and it leaves any lower structures as lists of
> pairs instead of Maps.
>
> Has anyone here worked with a JSON parser that does what I need? I can
> always write a method to convert from one representation to the other, but
> I
> thought I'd ask around first.
>
> Now that I think about it, I'll probably have to go with a Java library or
> build my own, since I actually need the Lists and Maps to be the Java
> variants (since I'm going to have to pass them to JRuby).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> -Mario.
>
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