java - READ JSON String in servlet

Question

I am posting a jQuery AJAX POST to a servlet and the data is in the form of JSON String. Its getting posted successfully but on the Servlet side I need to read these key-val pairs into a Session Object and store them. I tried using JSONObject class but I am not able to get it.

Heres the code snippet

$(function(){
   $.ajax(
   {
      data: mydata,   //mydata={"name":"abc","age":"21"}
      method:POST,
      url: ../MyServlet,
      success: function(response){alert(response);
   }
});

On the Servlet side

public doPost(HTTPServletRequest req, HTTPServletResponse res)
{
     HTTPSession session = new Session(false);
     JSONObject jObj    = new JSONObject();
     JSONObject newObj = jObj.getJSONObject(request.getParameter("mydata"));
     Enumeration eNames = newObj.keys(); //gets all the keys

     while(eNames.hasNextElement())
     {
         // Here I need to retrieve the values of the JSON string
         // and add it to the session
     }
}

Answer 1

if you use jQuery .ajax(), you need to read the HttpRequest input stream

    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    BufferedReader br = request.getReader();
    String str;
    while( (str = br.readLine()) != null ){
        sb.append(str);
    }    
    JSONObject jObj = new JSONObject(sb.toString());