Overview
This project contains core low-level incremental ("streaming") parser and generator abstractions used by
Jackson Data Processor.
It also includes the default implementation of handler types (parser, generator) that handle JSON format.
The core abstractions are not JSON specific, although naming does contain 'JSON' in many places, due to historical reasons. Only packages that specifically contain word 'json' are JSON-specific.
This package is the base on which Jackson data-binding package builds on.
It is licensed under Apache License 2.0.
Alternate data format implementations (like
Smile (binary JSON),
XML,
CSV,
Protobuf,
and CBOR)
also build on this base package, implementing the core interfaces,
making it possible to use standard data-binding package regardless of underlying data format.
Project contains versions 2.0 and above: source code for earlier (1.x) versions can be found from
Jackson-1 github repo.
Status
Get it!
Maven
Functionality of this package is contained in
Java package com.fasterxml.jackson.core.
To use the package, you need to use following Maven dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
<version>${jackson.version.core}</version>
</dependency>
or download jars from Maven repository or links on Wiki.
Core jar is a functional OSGi bundle, with proper import/export declarations.
Package has no external dependencies, except for testing (which uses JUnit).
Non-Maven
For non-Maven use cases, you download jars from Central Maven repository.
Core jar is also a functional OSGi bundle, with proper import/export declarations, so it can be use on OSGi container as is.
Use it!
General
Usage typically starts with creation of a reusable (and thread-safe, once configured) JsonFactory instance:
JsonFactory factory = new JsonFactory();
// configure, if necessary:
factory.enable(JsonParser.Feature.ALLOW_COMMENTS);
Alternatively, you have a ObjectMapper (from Jackson Databind package) handy; if so, you can do:
JsonFactory factory = objectMapper.getFactory();
Usage, simple reading
All reading is by using JsonParser (or its sub-classes, in case of data formats other than JSON),
instance of which is constructed by JsonFactory.
An example can be found from Reading and Writing Event Streams
Usage, simple writing
All writing is by using JsonGenerator (or its sub-classes, in case of data formats other than JSON),
instance of which is constructed by JsonFactory:
An example can be found from Reading and Writing Event Streams
Support
Community support
Jackson components are supported by the Jackson community through mailing lists, Gitter forum, Github issues. See Participation, Contributing for full details.
Enterprise support
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Further reading
Differences from Jackson 1.x
Project contains versions 2.0 and above: source code for the latest 1.x version (1.9.13) is available from
FasterXML/jackson-1 repo (unmaintained).
Note that the main differences compared to 1.0 core jar are:
- Maven build instead of Ant
- Annotations carved out to a separate package (that this package depends on)
- Java package is now
com.fasterxml.jackson.core(instead oforg.codehaus.jackson)
Links
- Project Wiki has JavaDocs and links to downloadable artifacts
- Jackson (portal) has links to all FasterXML-maintained "official" Jackson components
- Jackson Docs is the portal/hub for all kinds of Jackson documentation