java - Using JSON with MongoDB?

Question

My application uses JSON objects a lot (org.json.JSONArray and friends). What's the most efficient way to store these into Mongo DBObjects so they can be queried? BasicDBObject can't serialize a JSONArray--there seems to be no interoperability between these two hierarchies at all.

Answer 1

com.mongodb.util.JSON has a method to parse a JSON string into DBObject. The default JSONCallback will return a BasicDBObject or BasicDBList according to input string.

Object jsonObj = ...; //any of your org.json objects
Object o = com.mongodb.util.JSON.parse(jsonObj.toString());
DBObject dbObj = (DBObject) o;