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

You can simply extract out the value of a Json and scala gives you the corresponding map. Example:

   var myJson = Json.obj(
          "customerId" -> "xyz",
          "addressId" -> "xyz",
          "firstName" -> "xyz",
          "lastName" -> "xyz",
          "address" -> "xyz"
      )

Suppose you have the Json of above type. To convert it into map simply do:

var mapFromJson = myJson.value

This gives you a map of type : scala.collection.immutable.HashMap$HashTrieMap