java - decode JSON with cyrillic characters

Question

I have this JSON string:

[{
    "dpeartment":"u0418u0437u0431u0435u0440u0435u0442u0435 u043eu0442u0434u0435u043b",
    "position":"u0418u0437u0431u0435u0440u0435u0442u0435 u043fu043eu0437u0438u0446u0438u044f"
 },{
    "dpeartment":"u041cu0422u0426 u0438 u0441u043au043bu0430u0434u043eu0432u043e u0441u0442u043eu043fu0430u043du0441u0442u0432u043e",
    "position":"u0418u0437u0431u0435u0440u0435u0442u0435 u043fu043eu0437u0438u0446u0438u044f"
}]

It contains cyrillic characters that I want to convert to normal, readable UTF-8 encoded strings. How to decode the JSON and convert the cyrillic text to a readable UTF-8 string? Does java have any built-in classes for this?

Answer 1

Towards the bottom of http://json.org/ is a list of Java libraries for parsing and formatting JSON. org.json or json-simple for example.

How to decode the JSON and convert the cyrillic text to a readable UTF-8 string?

Any of them should expose the quoted strings in your JSON data bundle as java.lang.Strings which expose the strings content as a series of UTF-16 code-units. If you then want a byte[] with UTF-8 octets, see How to convert Strings to and from UTF8 byte arrays in Java .