Scala/Play: parse JSON into Map instead of JsObject

Question

On Play Framework\'s homepage they claim that \"JSON is a first class citizen\". I have yet to see the proof of that.

In my project I\'m dealing with some pretty co

Answer 1

I've chosen to use Jackson module for scala.

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper
import com.fasterxml.jackson.module.scala.DefaultScalaModule
import com.fasterxml.jackson.module.scala.experimental.ScalaObjectMapper

val mapper = new ObjectMapper() with ScalaObjectMapper
mapper.registerModule(DefaultScalaModule)
val obj = mapper.readValue[Map[String, Object]](jsonString)