How to check if a JsonNode is a single element or an Array in Java?

Question

I am traversing a json response with JsonNode (com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode)

How can I check if a given JsonNode is a single element or an Array?, because I need to traverse it deeper, and update some values (for example, the name value)

I can have a json response like this: (with a single element)

{  person: {
      name: "name1",
      address: "address1"
   } 
}

or I can have a json response like this: (with a )

{  "person": [ 
       {
         "name": "name1",
         "address": "address1"
       }, 
       {
         "name": "name2",
         "address": "address2"
       }
   ]
}

For an single element, I have this code:

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
JsonNode root = mapper.readTree(jsonString);
JsonNode personNode = root.findPath("person");
if(!personRootNode.isMissingNode()) 
   ((ObjectNode)nameNode).put("name","UPDATED NAME");

And, for an array element, I have this code

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
JsonNode root = mapper.readTree(jsonString);
JsonNode personNode = root.findPath("person");
if(!personNode .isMissingNode()) 
   for(JsonNode node: personRootNode){
      if(!node.isMissingNode()) {
         ((ObjectNode)node).put("name","UPDATED NAME");
      }
   }

I want to mix the logic in a single place, because the unique difference is the for loop

I can wrap the replace logic in a function/method. But how do I check if the current node is an element or an array?

Answer 1

You can call isArray() function on JsonNode object. For example :

    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();

    JsonNode root = mapper.readTree(s2);

    JsonNode personNode = root.findPath("person");

    if(personNode.isArray()) {

       ///array found

    } else {

    // non-array element

    }