Remove double quotes from JSON String

Question

I've below JSON string:

{ "students" : "[  {\"studentId\" : \"A1\",\"studentNumber\" 
 : \"287\",\"studentType\" : \"FullTime\"} ]"  }

In order to deserialize this string in java object, I've to remove \ which can be done using string replace method. Apart from that there are double quotes also just before [ and after ]. how do I remove these double quotes or allow them while deserializeing using Jackson.

Answer 1

You don't have to do it yourself, jackson will take care of it. Create a pojo class Student and you can write something like below:

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
Student student = mapper.readValue(responseBody, Student.class);

Answer 2

Try to replace "[ with [ and ]" with ]

json = json.replaceAll("\"\\[","[");
json = json.replaceAll("\\]\"", "]");