Converting JSON string to a JSON object in Scala

Question

I want to convert a simple JSON string such as {\"Name\":\"abc\", \"age\":10} to the corresponding JSON object (not a custom Scala object such as \"Person\"). D

Answer 1

The parseFull returns in-terms of Some(Map), parseRaw returns in terms of Some(JSONObject)

import scala.util.parsing.json._

val parsed = JSON.parseRaw("""{"Name":"abc", "age":10}""").getOrElse(yourDefault)

parsed is the JSONObject