[owlstuffing]

You can inline native type-safe JSON directly in Java with the manifold project.

    /*[Dude.json/] {
      "Name": "Scott",
      "Age": 100,
      "Address": {
        "Street": "345 Syracuse Way",
        "City": "Atlantis"
      }
    }
    */

    Dude dude = Dude.fromSource();
            
    out.println(dude.getName());
    out.println(dude.getAge());
    out.println(dude.getAddress().getCity());

https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold

[fallingbananna]

You could... but I view JSON as a simple format that you could write a recursive parser for in a few hundred lines yourself.

Bringing in compile-time code generation just for defining static JSONs (which is not that common outside of tests, as most JSONs are serialized and deserialized at runtime) sounds like a hard sell.

[owlstuffing]

This is just a small part of manifold’s JSON integration. And, yes, the inline aspect is mostly for testing, and it’s awesome there.