count members with jsonpath?

Question

Is it possible to count the number of members using JsonPath?

Using spring mvc test I\'m testing a controller that generates

{\"foo\": \"oof\", \"ba         


        

Answer 1

We can use JsonPath functions like size() or length(), like this:

@Test
public void givenJson_whenGetLengthWithJsonPath_thenGetLength() {
    String jsonString = "{'username':'jhon.user','email':'jhon@company.com','age':'28'}";

    int length = JsonPath
        .parse(jsonString)
        .read("$.length()");

    assertThat(length).isEqualTo(3);
}

Or simply parsing to net.minidev.json.JSONObject and get the size:

@Test
public void givenJson_whenParseObject_thenGetSize() {
    String jsonString = "{'username':'jhon.user','email':'jhon@company.com','age':'28'}";

    JSONObject jsonObject = (JSONObject) JSONValue.parse(jsonString);

    assertThat(jsonObject)
        .size()
        .isEqualTo(3);
}

Indeed, the second approach looks to perform better than the first one. I made a JMH performance test and I get the following results:

| Benchmark                                       | Mode  | Cnt | Score       | Error        | Units |
|-------------------------------------------------|-------|-----|-------------|--------------|-------|
| JsonPathBenchmark.benchmarkJSONObjectParse      | thrpt | 5   | 3241471.044 | ±1718855.506 | ops/s |
| JsonPathBenchmark.benchmarkJsonPathObjectLength | thrpt | 5   | 1680492.243 | ±132492.697  | ops/s |

The example code can be found here.