Scala: Parse JSON directly into a case class

Question

Given a string of JSON, and a case class that corresponds to it, what\'s a simple way to parse the JSON into the case class? There are many libraries available, but it seem

Answer 1

Spray Json is pretty light weight and does exactly what you need. It's a toolkit instead of a full on framework and you can just import the Spray-json project instead of the entire project.

https://github.com/spray/spray-json

The examples can get you set up very quickly. Most of the time your code to translate to/from JSON ends up being one liners, but you have the ability to explicitly handle it in case you have some weird requirements.