RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

Processing JSON with JSR 353 streaming APIs

This category of APIs supports the streaming model for both reading and writing the JSON content. This model is designed to process a large amount of data in a more efficient way. Conceptually, this model is similar to the Streaming API for XML (StAX) parser that you might have used while dealing with the XML data.

Streaming APIs are grouped in the javax.json.stream package in the JSR specification. In this section, we will see how we can use the streaming APIs to efficiently process JSON data.

Here is a list of the frequently used classes in the streaming API provided by the JSR 353 specification:

Class	Description
javax.json.stream.JsonParser	This class provides forward read-only access ...