How to get pretty printing in json simple java library

Question

Is there any way to get the pretty printing feature in json simple java library.Any example would be good.

Answer 1

you just want for developer's perspective then install addons/extensions for your browsers

or if you really want to beautify your code then try

http://jsbeautifier.org/

Answer 2

For this purpose I am using jackson-mapper-lgpl library. There is DefaultPrettyPrinter that can help you.

Here is my Serializer:

public class JSONSerializer
{
    private ObjectMapper mapper;

public JSONSerializer() {
    this.mapper = new ObjectMapper();
}

public String serialize(Object ob) throws IOException
{
    if (ob == null) {
        throw new NullPointerException("Cannot serialize null value");
    }
    return mapper.defaultPrettyPrintingWriter().writeValueAsString(ob);
}
}