How to convert String to Json Object in java or groovy

I saved a json into the database as a string like this:

"[_district:_1_2_5village, _name:_1_1_2id_inter, _gender:_1_3_5sex]"

Now i want to convert it back to a Json Object so as to pick the key and value eg _district is the key and _1_2_5village is the value. Any help on how i can achieve this. Thanks

I tried to convert the string back into JSON by parsing but that dint work for me.

Answer

It doesn’t work because that’s not a JSON format, a JSON is a way of mapping objects and uses key value syntax like so:

{"key": "value"}

and an array would look like this:

[{"key": "value"},{"key": "value"}]

You’ll need to make a custom parser for your syntax

Here’s the json specification:

https://www.json.org/json-en.html