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Asked: 2026-05-27T14:31:48+00:00

I have a complex json written in a string. I know java and a

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I have a complex json written in a string. I know java and a little of mysql. I need to make a database out of the json.

I’m using some twitter data so the tweets contain the description of the user who tweeted it and in case it’s been retweeted, it contains the description of the user who tweeted it before this user.

My objective is to create a user table ( or array or any other data structure ) which contains all the tweets this user tweeted, and all his tweets which have been retweeted.

The tweet object contains around 50-80 objects so giving an example here will make this post really long.

Example

StatusJSONImpl{createdAt=Wed Sep 28 12:04:55 IST 2011, id=118936707830775808, text='RT @nytimesbits: Google's Biggest Threat Is Google http://t.co/kTNqJFJC', source='web', isTruncated=false, inReplyToStatusId=-1, inReplyToUserId=-1, isFavorited=false, inReplyToScreenName='null', geoLocation=null, place=null, retweetCount=6, wasRetweetedByMe=false, contributors=null, annotations=null, retweetedStatus=StatusJSONImpl{createdAt=Wed Sep 28 05:35:26 IST 2011, id=118838689248985088, text='Google's Biggest Threat Is Google http://t.co/kTNqJFJC', source='<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/twitter" rel="nofollow">The New York Times</a>', isTruncated=false, inReplyToStatusId=-1, inReplyToUserId=-1, isFavorited=false, inReplyToScreenName='null', geoLocation=null, place=null, retweetCount=6, wasRetweetedByMe=false, contributors=null, annotations=null, retweetedStatus=null, userMentionEntities=[], urlEntities=[URLEntityJSONImpl{start=34, end=54, url=http://t.co/kTNqJFJC, expandedURL=http://nyti.ms/pR9DfX, displayURL=nyti.ms/pR9DfX}], hashtagEntities=[], user=UserJSONImpl{id=14434070, name='NYTimes Bits Blog', screenName='nytimesbits', location='The Cloud', description='News and analysis on tech and business. Also here: select retweets from NYT tech writers and friends. Account maintained by David F. Gallagher (@davidfg).', isContributorsEnabled=true, profileImageUrl='http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/108833947/bits75_normal.jpg', profileImageUrlHttps='https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/108833947/bits75_normal.jpg', url='http://nytimes.com/bits', isProtected=false, followersCount=53180, status=null, profileBackgroundColor='9ae4e8', profileTextColor='000000', profileLinkColor='0000ff', profileSidebarFillColor='e0ff92', profileSidebarBorderColor='87bc44', profileUseBackgroundImage=true, showAllInlineMedia=false, friendsCount=139, createdAt=Fri Apr 18 20:49:26 IST 2008, favouritesCount=5, utcOffset=-18000, timeZone='Eastern Time (US & Canada)', profileBackgroundImageUrl='http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/4780380/twitter_post.png', profileBackgroundImageUrlHttps='https://si0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/4780380/twitter_post.png', profileBackgroundTiled=true, lang='en', statusesCount=6360, isGeoEnabled=false, isVerified=true, translator=false, listedCount=4671, isFollowRequestSent=false}}, userMentionEntities=[UserMentionEntityJSONImpl{start=3, end=15, name='NYTimes Bits Blog', screenName='nytimesbits', id=14434070}], urlEntities=[URLEntityJSONImpl{start=51, end=71, url=http://t.co/kTNqJFJC, expandedURL=http://nyti.ms/pR9DfX, displayURL=nyti.ms/pR9DfX}], hashtagEntities=[], user=UserJSONImpl{id=17989546, name='Wolfgang Fasching-K.', screenName='wwwof', location='Vienna', description='Digital ist besser. Fokus: IT & Internet, World News & US Politik, Medien & Pop/Kultur. http://www.riverone.at', isContributorsEnabled=false, profileImageUrl='http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/67758989/SF050069-w_normal.JPG', profileImageUrlHttps='https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/67758989/SF050069-w_normal.JPG', url='null', isProtected=false, followersCount=59, status=null, profileBackgroundColor='C0DEED', profileTextColor='333333', profileLinkColor='0084B4', profileSidebarFillColor='DDEEF6', profileSidebarBorderColor='C0DEED', profileUseBackgroundImage=true, showAllInlineMedia=false, friendsCount=64, createdAt=Tue Dec 09 17:09:35 IST 2008, favouritesCount=0, utcOffset=3600, timeZone='Vienna', profileBackgroundImageUrl='http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/234523169/Naschmarkt-Wien-Juni10-2010-s.jpg', profileBackgroundImageUrlHttps='https://si0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/234523169/Naschmarkt-Wien-Juni10-2010-s.jpg', profileBackgroundTiled=true, lang='en', statusesCount=269, isGeoEnabled=false, isVerified=false, translator=false, listedCount=4, isFollowRequestSent=false}}
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  1. Editorial Team

    For JSON parsing, I recommend Jackson. Also, in order to validate your input, you should have a look at JSON Schema (for which I have an implementation if you want).

    Here is how to parse a JSON in a string using Jackson:

    final ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();

final JsonNode node = mapper.readTree(yourInput);

// Access members:

node.get(0); // access node 0 of an array

for (final JsonNode entry: node) {
    ... // cycle through array nodes
}

node.get("foo"); // access property "foo" of an object

node.get("foo").getTextValue(); // access as a text

// etc etc

    It also has a s*load of options to serialize to POJOs if that’s what you want.

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