Java : Convert Object consisting enum to Json Object

Question

I am using org.json library to convert Object to Json format. Kindly check the below code snippet.

public enum JobStatus implements Serializable{
     INCOMP         


        

Answer 1

First of all I highly recommend do not use this library (org.json), this is very old and unsupported (as i know) library. I suggest Jackson or Gson.

But if you really need JSONObject, you can add getter into enum:

 public enum JobStatus implements Serializable{
    INCOMPLETE,
    INPROGRESS,
    ABORTED,
    COMPLETED;

    public String getStatus() {
        return this.name();
    }
}

result of serialization:

{"id":"12345","status":{"status":"INPROGRESS"}}

As I know, JSONObject don't support correct serialization of enums which not have any additional data inside.