Field Detail

• _cfgPrettyPrinter

  protected PrettyPrinter _cfgPrettyPrinter

  Object that handles pretty-printing (usually additional white space to make results more human-readable) during output. If null, no pretty-printing is done.

Constructor Detail

• JsonGenerator

  protected JsonGenerator()

Method Detail

• setCodec

  public abstract JsonGenerator setCodec(ObjectCodec oc)

  Method that can be called to set or reset the object to use for writing Java objects as JsonContent (using method writeObject(java.lang.Object)).

  Returns:

  Generator itself (this), to allow chaining

• getCodec

  public abstract ObjectCodec getCodec()

  Method for accessing the object used for writing Java object as Json content (using method writeObject(java.lang.Object)).

• setSchema

  public void setSchema(FormatSchema schema)

  Method to call to make this generator use specified schema. Method must be called before generating any content, right after instance has been created. Note that not all generators support schemas; and those that do usually only accept specific types of schemas: ones defined for data format this generator produces.

  If generator does not support specified schema, UnsupportedOperationException is thrown.

  Parameters:

  schema - Schema to use

  Throws:

  UnsupportedOperationException - if generator does not support schema

• getSchema

  public FormatSchema getSchema()

  Method for accessing Schema that this parser uses, if any. Default implementation returns null.

  Since:

  2.1

• canUseSchema

  public boolean canUseSchema(FormatSchema schema)

  Method that can be used to verify that given schema can be used with this generator (using setSchema(com.fasterxml.jackson.core.FormatSchema)).

  Parameters:

  schema - Schema to check

  Returns:

  True if this generator can use given schema; false if not

• version

  public abstract Version version()

  Accessor for finding out version of the bundle that provided this generator instance.

  Specified by:

  version in interface Versioned

• getOutputTarget

  public Object getOutputTarget()

  Method that can be used to get access to object that is used as target for generated output; this is usually either OutputStream or Writer, depending on what generator was constructed with. Note that returned value may be null in some cases; including case where implementation does not want to exposed raw source to caller. In cases where output has been decorated, object returned here is the decorated version; this allows some level of interaction between users of generator and decorator object.

  In general use of this accessor should be considered as "last effort", i.e. only used if no other mechanism is applicable.

• setRootValueSeparator

  public JsonGenerator setRootValueSeparator(SerializableString sep)

  Method that allows overriding String used for separating root-level JSON values (default is single space character)

  Parameters:

  sep - Separator to use, if any; null means that no separator is automatically added

  Since:

  2.1

• enable

  public abstract JsonGenerator enable(JsonGenerator.Feature f)

  Method for enabling specified parser features: check JsonGenerator.Feature for list of available features.

  Returns:

  Generator itself (this), to allow chaining

• disable

  public abstract JsonGenerator disable(JsonGenerator.Feature f)

  Method for disabling specified features (check JsonGenerator.Feature for list of features)

  Returns:

  Generator itself (this), to allow chaining

• configure

  public final JsonGenerator configure(JsonGenerator.Feature f,
                        boolean state)

  Method for enabling or disabling specified feature: check JsonGenerator.Feature for list of available features.

  Returns:

  Generator itself (this), to allow chaining

• isEnabled

  public abstract boolean isEnabled(JsonGenerator.Feature f)

  Method for checking whether given feature is enabled. Check JsonGenerator.Feature for list of available features.

• setPrettyPrinter

  public JsonGenerator setPrettyPrinter(PrettyPrinter pp)

  Method for setting a custom pretty printer, which is usually used to add indentation for improved human readability. By default, generator does not do pretty printing.

  To use the default pretty printer that comes with core Jackson distribution, call useDefaultPrettyPrinter() instead.

  Returns:

  Generator itself (this), to allow chaining

• getPrettyPrinter

  public PrettyPrinter getPrettyPrinter()

  Accessor for checking whether this generator has a configured PrettyPrinter; returns it if so, null if none configured.

  Since:

  2.1

• useDefaultPrettyPrinter

  public abstract JsonGenerator useDefaultPrettyPrinter()

  Convenience method for enabling pretty-printing using the default pretty printer (DefaultPrettyPrinter).

  Returns:

  Generator itself (this), to allow chaining

• setHighestNonEscapedChar

  public JsonGenerator setHighestNonEscapedChar(int charCode)

  Method that can be called to request that generator escapes all character codes above specified code point (if positive value); or, to not escape any characters except for ones that must be escaped for the data format (if -1). To force escaping of all non-ASCII characters, for example, this method would be called with value of 127.

  Note that generators are NOT required to support setting of value higher than 127, because there are other ways to affect quoting (or lack thereof) of character codes between 0 and 127. Not all generators support concept of escaping, either; if so, calling this method will have no effect.

  Default implementation does nothing; sub-classes need to redefine it according to rules of supported data format.

  Parameters:

  charCode - Either -1 to indicate that no additional escaping is to be done; or highest code point not to escape (meaning higher ones will be), if positive value.

• getHighestEscapedChar

  public int getHighestEscapedChar()

  Accessor method for testing what is the highest unescaped character configured for this generator. This may be either positive value (when escaping configuration has been set and is in effect), or 0 to indicate that no additional escaping is in effect. Some generators may not support additional escaping: for example, generators for binary formats that do not use escaping should simply return 0.

  Returns:

  Currently active limitation for highest non-escaped character, if defined; or -1 to indicate no additional escaping is performed.

• getCharacterEscapes

  public CharacterEscapes getCharacterEscapes()

  Method for accessing custom escapes factory uses for JsonGenerators it creates.

• setCharacterEscapes

  public JsonGenerator setCharacterEscapes(CharacterEscapes esc)

  Method for defining custom escapes factory uses for JsonGenerators it creates.

• writeStartArray

  public abstract void writeStartArray()
                                throws IOException,
                                       JsonGenerationException

  Method for writing starting marker of a JSON Array value (character '['; plus possible white space decoration if pretty-printing is enabled).

  Array values can be written in any context where values are allowed: meaning everywhere except for when a field name is expected.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeEndArray

  public abstract void writeEndArray()
                              throws IOException,
                                     JsonGenerationException

  Method for writing closing marker of a JSON Array value (character ']'; plus possible white space decoration if pretty-printing is enabled).

  Marker can be written if the innermost structured type is Array.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeStartObject

  public abstract void writeStartObject()
                                 throws IOException,
                                        JsonGenerationException

  Method for writing starting marker of a JSON Object value (character '{'; plus possible white space decoration if pretty-printing is enabled).

  Object values can be written in any context where values are allowed: meaning everywhere except for when a field name is expected.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeEndObject

  public abstract void writeEndObject()
                               throws IOException,
                                      JsonGenerationException

  Method for writing closing marker of a JSON Object value (character '}'; plus possible white space decoration if pretty-printing is enabled).

  Marker can be written if the innermost structured type is Object, and the last written event was either a complete value, or START-OBJECT marker (see JSON specification for more details).

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeFieldName

  public abstract void writeFieldName(String name)
                               throws IOException,
                                      JsonGenerationException

  Method for writing a field name (JSON String surrounded by double quotes: syntactically identical to a JSON String value), possibly decorated by white space if pretty-printing is enabled.

  Field names can only be written in Object context (check out JSON specification for details), when field name is expected (field names alternate with values).

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeFieldName

  public abstract void writeFieldName(SerializableString name)
                               throws IOException,
                                      JsonGenerationException

  Method similar to writeFieldName(String), main difference being that it may perform better as some of processing (such as quoting of certain characters, or encoding into external encoding if supported by generator) can be done just once and reused for later calls.

  Default implementation simple uses unprocessed name container in serialized String; implementations are strongly encouraged to make use of more efficient methods argument object has.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeString

  public abstract void writeString(String text)
                            throws IOException,
                                   JsonGenerationException

  Method for outputting a String value. Depending on context this means either array element, (object) field value or a stand alone String; but in all cases, String will be surrounded in double quotes, and contents will be properly escaped as required by JSON specification.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeString

  public abstract void writeString(char[] text,
                 int offset,
                 int len)
                            throws IOException,
                                   JsonGenerationException

  Method for outputting a String value. Depending on context this means either array element, (object) field value or a stand alone String; but in all cases, String will be surrounded in double quotes, and contents will be properly escaped as required by JSON specification.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeString

  public abstract void writeString(SerializableString text)
                            throws IOException,
                                   JsonGenerationException

  Method similar to writeString(String), but that takes SerializableString which can make this potentially more efficient to call as generator may be able to reuse quoted and/or encoded representation.

  Default implementation just calls writeString(String); sub-classes should override it with more efficient implementation if possible.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeRawUTF8String

  public abstract void writeRawUTF8String(byte[] text,
                        int offset,
                        int length)
                                   throws IOException,
                                          JsonGenerationException

  Method similar to writeString(String) but that takes as its input a UTF-8 encoded String that is to be output as-is, without additional escaping (type of which depends on data format; backslashes for JSON). However, quoting that data format requires (like double-quotes for JSON) will be added around the value if and as necessary.

  Note that some backends may choose not to support this method: for example, if underlying destination is a Writer using this method would require UTF-8 decoding. If so, implementation may instead choose to throw a UnsupportedOperationException due to ineffectiveness of having to decode input.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeUTF8String

  public abstract void writeUTF8String(byte[] text,
                     int offset,
                     int length)
                                throws IOException,
                                       JsonGenerationException

  Method similar to writeString(String) but that takes as its input a UTF-8 encoded String which has not been escaped using whatever escaping scheme data format requires (for JSON that is backslash-escaping for control characters and double-quotes; for other formats something else). This means that textual JSON backends need to check if value needs JSON escaping, but otherwise can just be copied as is to output. Also, quoting that data format requires (like double-quotes for JSON) will be added around the value if and as necessary.

  Note that some backends may choose not to support this method: for example, if underlying destination is a Writer using this method would require UTF-8 decoding. In this case generator implementation may instead choose to throw a UnsupportedOperationException due to ineffectiveness of having to decode input.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeRaw

  public abstract void writeRaw(String text)
                         throws IOException,
                                JsonGenerationException

  Method that will force generator to copy input text verbatim with no modifications (including that no escaping is done and no separators are added even if context [array, object] would otherwise require such). If such separators are desired, use writeRawValue(String) instead.

  Note that not all generator implementations necessarily support such by-pass methods: those that do not will throw UnsupportedOperationException.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeRaw

  public abstract void writeRaw(String text,
              int offset,
              int len)
                         throws IOException,
                                JsonGenerationException

  Method that will force generator to copy input text verbatim with no modifications (including that no escaping is done and no separators are added even if context [array, object] would otherwise require such). If such separators are desired, use writeRawValue(String) instead.

  Note that not all generator implementations necessarily support such by-pass methods: those that do not will throw UnsupportedOperationException.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeRaw

  public abstract void writeRaw(char[] text,
              int offset,
              int len)
                         throws IOException,
                                JsonGenerationException

  Method that will force generator to copy input text verbatim with no modifications (including that no escaping is done and no separators are added even if context [array, object] would otherwise require such). If such separators are desired, use writeRawValue(String) instead.

  Note that not all generator implementations necessarily support such by-pass methods: those that do not will throw UnsupportedOperationException.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeRaw

  public abstract void writeRaw(char c)
                         throws IOException,
                                JsonGenerationException

  Method that will force generator to copy input text verbatim with no modifications (including that no escaping is done and no separators are added even if context [array, object] would otherwise require such). If such separators are desired, use writeRawValue(String) instead.

  Note that not all generator implementations necessarily support such by-pass methods: those that do not will throw UnsupportedOperationException.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeRaw

  public void writeRaw(SerializableString raw)
                throws IOException,
                       JsonGenerationException

  Method that will force generator to copy input text verbatim with no modifications (including that no escaping is done and no separators are added even if context [array, object] would otherwise require such). If such separators are desired, use writeRawValue(String) instead.

  Note that not all generator implementations necessarily support such by-pass methods: those that do not will throw UnsupportedOperationException.

  The default implementation delegates to writeRaw(String); other backends that support raw inclusion of text are encouraged to implement it in more efficient manner (especially if they use UTF-8 encoding).

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

  Since:

  2.1

• writeRawValue

  public abstract void writeRawValue(String text)
                              throws IOException,
                                     JsonGenerationException

  Method that will force generator to copy input text verbatim without any modifications, but assuming it must constitute a single legal JSON value (number, string, boolean, null, Array or List). Assuming this, proper separators are added if and as needed (comma or colon), and generator state updated to reflect this.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeRawValue

  public abstract void writeRawValue(String text,
                   int offset,
                   int len)
                              throws IOException,
                                     JsonGenerationException

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeRawValue

  public abstract void writeRawValue(char[] text,
                   int offset,
                   int len)
                              throws IOException,
                                     JsonGenerationException

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeBinary

  public abstract void writeBinary(Base64Variant b64variant,
                 byte[] data,
                 int offset,
                 int len)
                            throws IOException,
                                   JsonGenerationException

  Method that will output given chunk of binary data as base64 encoded, as a complete String value (surrounded by double quotes). This method defaults

  Note: because Json Strings can not contain unescaped linefeeds, if linefeeds are included (as per last argument), they must be escaped. This adds overhead for decoding without improving readability. Alternatively if linefeeds are not included, resulting String value may violate the requirement of base64 RFC which mandates line-length of 76 characters and use of linefeeds. However, all JsonParser implementations are required to accept such "long line base64"; as do typical production-level base64 decoders.

  Parameters:

  b64variant - Base64 variant to use: defines details such as whether padding is used (and if so, using which character); what is the maximum line length before adding linefeed, and also the underlying alphabet to use.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeBinary

  public void writeBinary(byte[] data,
                 int offset,
                 int len)
                   throws IOException,
                          JsonGenerationException

  Similar to writeBinary(Base64Variant,byte[],int,int), but default to using the Jackson default Base64 variant (which is Base64Variants.MIME_NO_LINEFEEDS).

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeBinary

  public void writeBinary(byte[] data)
                   throws IOException,
                          JsonGenerationException

  Similar to writeBinary(Base64Variant,byte[],int,int), but assumes default to using the Jackson default Base64 variant (which is Base64Variants.MIME_NO_LINEFEEDS). Also assumes that whole byte array is to be output.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeBinary

  public int writeBinary(InputStream data,
                int dataLength)
                  throws IOException,
                         JsonGenerationException

  Similar to writeBinary(Base64Variant,InputStream,int), but assumes default to using the Jackson default Base64 variant (which is Base64Variants.MIME_NO_LINEFEEDS).

  Parameters:

  data - InputStream to use for reading binary data to write. Will not be closed after successful write operation

  dataLength - (optional) number of bytes that will be available; or -1 to be indicate it is not known. Note that implementations need not support cases where length is not known in advance; this depends on underlying data format: JSON output does NOT require length, other formats may

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeBinary

  public abstract int writeBinary(Base64Variant b64variant,
                InputStream data,
                int dataLength)
                           throws IOException,
                                  JsonGenerationException

  Method similar to writeBinary(Base64Variant,byte[],int,int), but where input is provided through a stream, allowing for incremental writes without holding the whole input in memory.

  Parameters:

  b64variant - Base64 variant to use

  data - InputStream to use for reading binary data to write. Will not be closed after successful write operation

  dataLength - (optional) number of bytes that will be available; or -1 to be indicate it is not known. If a positive length is given, data MUST provide at least that many bytes: if not, an exception will be thrown. Note that implementations need not support cases where length is not known in advance; this depends on underlying data format: JSON output does NOT require length, other formats may.

  Returns:

  Number of bytes read from data and written as binary payload

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

  Since:

  2.1

• writeNumber

  public void writeNumber(short v)
                   throws IOException,
                          JsonGenerationException

  Method for outputting given value as Json number. Can be called in any context where a value is expected (Array value, Object field value, root-level value). Additional white space may be added around the value if pretty-printing is enabled.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

  Since:

  2.2

• writeNumber

  public abstract void writeNumber(int v)
                            throws IOException,
                                   JsonGenerationException

  Method for outputting given value as Json number. Can be called in any context where a value is expected (Array value, Object field value, root-level value). Additional white space may be added around the value if pretty-printing is enabled.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeNumber

  public abstract void writeNumber(long v)
                            throws IOException,
                                   JsonGenerationException

  Method for outputting given value as Json number. Can be called in any context where a value is expected (Array value, Object field value, root-level value). Additional white space may be added around the value if pretty-printing is enabled.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeNumber

  public abstract void writeNumber(BigInteger v)
                            throws IOException,
                                   JsonGenerationException

  Method for outputting given value as Json number. Can be called in any context where a value is expected (Array value, Object field value, root-level value). Additional white space may be added around the value if pretty-printing is enabled.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeNumber

  public abstract void writeNumber(double d)
                            throws IOException,
                                   JsonGenerationException

  Method for outputting indicate Json numeric value. Can be called in any context where a value is expected (Array value, Object field value, root-level value). Additional white space may be added around the value if pretty-printing is enabled.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeNumber

  public abstract void writeNumber(float f)
                            throws IOException,
                                   JsonGenerationException

  Method for outputting indicate Json numeric value. Can be called in any context where a value is expected (Array value, Object field value, root-level value). Additional white space may be added around the value if pretty-printing is enabled.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeNumber

  public abstract void writeNumber(BigDecimal dec)
                            throws IOException,
                                   JsonGenerationException

  Method for outputting indicate Json numeric value. Can be called in any context where a value is expected (Array value, Object field value, root-level value). Additional white space may be added around the value if pretty-printing is enabled.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeNumber

  public abstract void writeNumber(String encodedValue)
                            throws IOException,
                                   JsonGenerationException,
                                   UnsupportedOperationException

  Write method that can be used for custom numeric types that can not be (easily?) converted to "standard" Java number types. Because numbers are not surrounded by double quotes, regular writeString(java.lang.String) method can not be used; nor writeRaw(java.lang.String) because that does not properly handle value separators needed in Array or Object contexts.

  Note: because of lack of type safety, some generator implementations may not be able to implement this method. For example, if a binary json format is used, it may require type information for encoding; similarly for generator-wrappers around Java objects or Json nodes. If implementation does not implement this method, it needs to throw UnsupportedOperationException.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

  UnsupportedOperationException

• writeBoolean

  public abstract void writeBoolean(boolean state)
                             throws IOException,
                                    JsonGenerationException

  Method for outputting literal Json boolean value (one of Strings 'true' and 'false'). Can be called in any context where a value is expected (Array value, Object field value, root-level value). Additional white space may be added around the value if pretty-printing is enabled.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeNull

  public abstract void writeNull()
                          throws IOException,
                                 JsonGenerationException

  Method for outputting literal Json null value. Can be called in any context where a value is expected (Array value, Object field value, root-level value). Additional white space may be added around the value if pretty-printing is enabled.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeObject

  public abstract void writeObject(Object pojo)
                            throws IOException,
                                   JsonProcessingException

  Method for writing given Java object (POJO) as Json. Exactly how the object gets written depends on object in question (ad on codec, its configuration); for most beans it will result in Json object, but for others Json array, or String or numeric value (and for nulls, Json null literal. NOTE: generator must have its object codec set to non-null value; for generators created by a mapping factory this is the case, for others not.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonProcessingException

• writeTree

  public abstract void writeTree(TreeNode rootNode)
                          throws IOException,
                                 JsonProcessingException

  Method for writing given JSON tree (expressed as a tree where given JsonNode is the root) using this generator. This will generally just call writeObject(java.lang.Object) with given node, but is added for convenience and to make code more explicit in cases where it deals specifically with trees.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonProcessingException

• writeStringField

  public void writeStringField(String fieldName,
                      String value)
                        throws IOException,
                               JsonGenerationException

  Convenience method for outputting a field entry ("member") that has a String value. Equivalent to:

    writeFieldName(fieldName);
    writeString(value);
  

  Note: many performance-sensitive implementations override this method

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeBooleanField

  public final void writeBooleanField(String fieldName,
                       boolean value)
                               throws IOException,
                                      JsonGenerationException

  Convenience method for outputting a field entry ("member") that has a boolean value. Equivalent to:

    writeFieldName(fieldName);
    writeBoolean(value);
  

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeNullField

  public final void writeNullField(String fieldName)
                            throws IOException,
                                   JsonGenerationException

  Convenience method for outputting a field entry ("member") that has JSON literal value null. Equivalent to:

    writeFieldName(fieldName);
    writeNull();
  

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeNumberField

  public final void writeNumberField(String fieldName,
                      int value)
                              throws IOException,
                                     JsonGenerationException

  Convenience method for outputting a field entry ("member") that has the specified numeric value. Equivalent to:

    writeFieldName(fieldName);
    writeNumber(value);
  

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeNumberField

  public final void writeNumberField(String fieldName,
                      long value)
                              throws IOException,
                                     JsonGenerationException

  Convenience method for outputting a field entry ("member") that has the specified numeric value. Equivalent to:

    writeFieldName(fieldName);
    writeNumber(value);
  

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeNumberField

  public final void writeNumberField(String fieldName,
                      double value)
                              throws IOException,
                                     JsonGenerationException

  Convenience method for outputting a field entry ("member") that has the specified numeric value. Equivalent to:

    writeFieldName(fieldName);
    writeNumber(value);
  

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeNumberField

  public final void writeNumberField(String fieldName,
                      float value)
                              throws IOException,
                                     JsonGenerationException

  Convenience method for outputting a field entry ("member") that has the specified numeric value. Equivalent to:

    writeFieldName(fieldName);
    writeNumber(value);
  

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeNumberField

  public final void writeNumberField(String fieldName,
                      BigDecimal value)
                              throws IOException,
                                     JsonGenerationException

  Convenience method for outputting a field entry ("member") that has the specified numeric value. Equivalent to:

    writeFieldName(fieldName);
    writeNumber(value);
  

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeBinaryField

  public final void writeBinaryField(String fieldName,
                      byte[] data)
                              throws IOException,
                                     JsonGenerationException

  Convenience method for outputting a field entry ("member") that contains specified data in base64-encoded form. Equivalent to:

    writeFieldName(fieldName);
    writeBinary(value);
  

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeArrayFieldStart

  public final void writeArrayFieldStart(String fieldName)
                                  throws IOException,
                                         JsonGenerationException

  Convenience method for outputting a field entry ("member") (that will contain a JSON Array value), and the START_ARRAY marker. Equivalent to:

    writeFieldName(fieldName);
    writeStartArray();
  

  Note: caller still has to take care to close the array (by calling {#link #writeEndArray}) after writing all values of the value Array.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeObjectFieldStart

  public final void writeObjectFieldStart(String fieldName)
                                   throws IOException,
                                          JsonGenerationException

  Convenience method for outputting a field entry ("member") (that will contain a JSON Object value), and the START_OBJECT marker. Equivalent to:

    writeFieldName(fieldName);
    writeStartObject();
  

  Note: caller still has to take care to close the Object (by calling {#link #writeEndObject}) after writing all entries of the value Object.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonGenerationException

• writeObjectField

  public final void writeObjectField(String fieldName,
                      Object pojo)
                              throws IOException,
                                     JsonProcessingException

  Convenience method for outputting a field entry ("member") that has contents of specific Java object as its value. Equivalent to:

    writeFieldName(fieldName);
    writeObject(pojo);
  

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonProcessingException

• copyCurrentEvent

  public abstract void copyCurrentEvent(JsonParser jp)
                                 throws IOException,
                                        JsonProcessingException

  Method for copying contents of the current event that the given parser instance points to. Note that the method will not copy any other events, such as events contained within Json Array or Object structures.

  Calling this method will not advance the given parser, although it may cause parser to internally process more data (if it lazy loads contents of value events, for example)

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonProcessingException

• copyCurrentStructure

  public abstract void copyCurrentStructure(JsonParser jp)
                                     throws IOException,
                                            JsonProcessingException

  Method for copying contents of the current event and following events that it encloses the given parser instance points to.

  So what constitutes enclosing? Here is the list of events that have associated enclosed events that will get copied:

  • JsonToken.START_OBJECT: all events up to and including matching (closing) JsonToken.END_OBJECT will be copied
  • JsonToken.START_ARRAY all events up to and including matching (closing) JsonToken.END_ARRAY will be copied
  • JsonToken.FIELD_NAME the logical value (which can consist of a single scalar value; or a sequence of related events for structured types (Json Arrays, Objects)) will be copied along with the name itself. So essentially the whole field entry (name and value) will be copied.

  After calling this method, parser will point to the last event that was copied. This will either be the event parser already pointed to (if there were no enclosed events), or the last enclosed event copied.

  Throws:

  IOException

  JsonProcessingException

• getOutputContext

  public abstract JsonStreamContext getOutputContext()

  Returns:

  Context object that can give information about logical position within generated json content.

• flush

  public abstract void flush()
                      throws IOException

  Method called to flush any buffered content to the underlying target (output stream, writer), and to flush the target itself as well.

  Specified by:

  flush in interface Flushable

  Throws:

  IOException

• isClosed

  public abstract boolean isClosed()

  Method that can be called to determine whether this generator is closed or not. If it is closed, no more output can be done.

• close

  public abstract void close()
                      throws IOException

  Method called to close this generator, so that no more content can be written.

  Whether the underlying target (stream, writer) gets closed depends on whether this generator either manages the target (i.e. is the only one with access to the target -- case if caller passes a reference to the resource such as File, but not stream); or has feature JsonGenerator.Feature.AUTO_CLOSE_TARGET enabled. If either of above is true, the target is also closed. Otherwise (not managing, feature not enabled), target is not closed.

  Specified by:

  close in interface Closeable

  Specified by:

  close in interface AutoCloseable

  Throws:

  IOException