Converting JsonNode to java array

Question

I am working on Play framewrok 2 with websocket and JsonNode . the front end is connected to the play framework backend by use of websocket. I converted a javascript array into a json node and sent it to the backend by the use of the webscoket connection. Now my problem is how do i convert the json object into a a java array or any suitable structure so that i can manipulate the data.

this is the json object I created

var myjeson = {"x":arrayX,"y":arrayY} ;

this is the array which is populated dynamically

 function pixelCount ()
    {  arrayX[counter] = xcoordinate;        
    arrayY[counter] = ycoordinate;
    socket.send(" from array X,Y  "+arrayX[counter]+ " " +arrayY[counter]); 
    ++counter;      
    }

the code below sends the data

$('button.send').click(function() {            
sock.send(JSON.stringify(myjeson)); 

on the server side i have the following code

 public static WebSocket<JsonNode> givenIn() {
    return new WebSocket<JsonNode>() {
    // called when the websocket is established
    public void onReady(WebSocket.In<JsonNode> in, WebSocket.Out<JsonNode> out) {
    // register a callback for processing instream events             
    in.onMessage(new Callback<JsonNode>() {
    public void invoke(JsonNode event) {                 
    Logger.info(event.toString());
    }

when I check the log the message is delivered : below is the log info [info] application -

{"x":
[78.72727298736572,79.72727298736572,82.72727298736572,
7298736572,93.72727298736572,83.72727298736572132.72727298736572],

"y":
[82.6363639831543,82.6363639831543,63.54545593261719,63.54545593261719,64.545455932
61719,65.54545593261719,70.54545593261719,189.5454559326172,188.5454559326172]}

Now I will like to place these data in an array so that I can access them. any suggestion will be appreciated.an alternative suggestion is also welcomed.

Answer 1

Moving my comment to an answer, as it got upvoted a lot.

This should do what the OP needed:

new ObjectMapper().convertValue(jsonNode, ArrayList.class)