Question

I have a valid JSON shown below

{
    "employees": [
        {
            "firstName": "Peter",
            "lastName": "Jones"
        }
    ]
}

Please let me know how can i associate this with String in Eclipse IDE

Means i want to do

String json = "{
    "employees": [
        {
            "firstName": "Peter",
            "lastName": "Jones"
        }
    ]
}"

but its giving an compilation error , telling String literal is not properly closed by a double-quote

Answer 1

If the JSON string was pasted from somewhere, you might want to select the “Escape text when pasting string” option. Then you won’t have to escape by hand which can be tideous.

http://tarlogonjava.blogspot.sg/2008/04/cut-and-paste-of-strings-in-eclipse.html