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Google-gson is a java library from Google for encoding and decoding JSON text. Get the latest binaries from http://code.google.com/p/google-gson/. The following example shows converting a java map to JSON string.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/google_gson/tests/Map2Json.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.google_gson.tests;



import java.util.Date;

import java.util.HashMap;

import java.util.Map;



import com.google.gson.Gson;

import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;



public class Map2Json {



  /**

   * @param args

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) {



    Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>();

    map.put("name", "Sriram");

    map.put("age", 2);

    map.put("dob", new Date(110, 4, 6));

    map.put("hobby", "painting");

    

    Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create();

    String jsonStr = gson.toJson(map);

    System.out.println(jsonStr);

  }



}

Map to JSON