How do you serialize a Map to JSON in Scala?

Question

So I have a Map in Scala like this:

val m = Map[String, String](     "a" -> "theA",     "b" -> "theB",     "c" -> "theC",     "d" -> "theD",     "e" -> "theE" ) 

and I want to serialize this structure into a JSON string using lift-json.

Do any of you know how to do this?

Answer 1

If you are using the latest Scala 2.10.x and above :

println(scala.util.parsing.json.JSONObject(m))