Comparing the JSON APIs Gson and Jackson
Compare JSON APIs Gson and Jackson based on performance for JSON conversion wrappers and creation of lists in both APIs.
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Join For FreeIn this post we will compare two famous JSON specific API i.e. Gson and Jackson from a performance point of view:
Code
Wrapper
This class is used for conversion to JSON
public class MeasurementRecord {
private String measurementId;
private long duration;
private long time;
private MeasurementType type=MeasurementType.METHOD_CALL;
/**
*
* @param measurementId
* @param duration
* @param time
* @param type
*/
public MeasurementRecord(String measurementId, long duration, long time,
MeasurementType type) {
super();
this.measurementId = measurementId;
this.duration = duration;
this.time = time;
this.type = type;
}
//getters and setters
}
public enum MeasurementType {
WEB_REQUEST,SQL,EXCEPTION,METHOD_CALL
}
Code for Creating List
private static List<String> getList(int iteration){
List l=new ArrayList();
for(int i=0;i<iteration;i++){
l.add(new MeasurementRecord("/test.html", 10, System.currentTimeMillis(), MeasurementType.WEB_REQUEST));
}
return l;
}
Jackson API
private static long jacksonTest(int iteration)throws Exception{
ObjectMapper mapper=new ObjectMapper();
List<String> l=getList(iteration);
long T1=System.nanoTime();
String json=mapper.writeValueAsString(l);
long T2=System.nanoTime();
return (T2-T1);
}
Gson API
private static long gsonTest(int iteration){
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().create();
List l=getList(iteration);
long T1=System.nanoTime();
String json=gson.toJson(l);
long T2=System.nanoTime();
return (T2-T1);
}
Results
Conclusion
For converting small- or medium-sized lists, Gson provides a better response compared to Jackson. For large lists, Jackson provides a better response than Gson. Based on this results one can conclude that for converting small or medium size list to JSON one can use Gson for better performance.
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