JSON and Scala parser

Question

I'm trying to parse below code json string value:

val map1 = mapper.readValue("""{"test":"113123","myList":{"test2":"321323","test3":"11122"}}""", classOf[Map[String,Any]])
System.out.println(map1)

for that i'm getting output something like this:

Map(test -> 113123, myList -> Map(test2 -> 321323, test3 -> 11122))

But my expected output would be:

Map(test -> 113123, myList -> Some(Map(test2 -> 321323, test3 -> 11122)))

Need help to solve this problem. Thanks

Answer 1

if you're looking for Some() as a value in your map, presumably there'd be some case where you'd expect a None . Rather than the Option be built-in to your map (perhaps with classOf(Map[String, Option[Any]]) ), I would have expected an Option to be returned on trying to access values from your map, as in Map.get("myList") , otherwise I'm not sure how you'd define that you didn't also want Map("cat" -> None, "dog" -> None, "fish" -> None) etc.

In short, it looks to me like the Some is in an odd place