Accessing inner JSON field in Scala -

i have json string as

{   "whatsnew" : {     "oldnotificationclass" : "whatsnewnotification",     "notificationevent" : { ..... },     "result" : {       "notificationcount" : 10       .....     }   },   ......   "someempty": { },   ...... } 

i trying notificationcount field using json4s in scala follow notificationcount coming empty all. help?

update if pair empty how can handle empty condition , continue loop?

function returning json string file

def getdata(): map[string, anyref] = {   val jsonstring = scala.io.source.frominputstream(this.getclass.getresourceasstream("/sample.json")).getlines.mkstring   val jsonobject = parse( s""" $jsonstring """)   jsonobject.values.asinstanceof[map[string, anyref]] } 

code fields

val mymap: map[string, anyref] = mydataloader.getdata  for((key, value) <- mymap) {   val id = key   val eventjsonstr: string = write(value.asinstanceof[map[string, string]] "notificationevent")   val resultjsonstr: string = write(value.asinstanceof[map[string, string]] "result")   //val notificationcount: string = write(value.asinstanceof[map[string, map[string, string]]] "notificationcount") } 

you can use path , extract so:

val count: int = (parse(jsonstring) \ "whatsnew" \ "result" \ "notificationcount").extract[int] 

you need import .extract[int] work:

implicit val formats = defaultformats 

to in loop:

parse(jsonstring).children.map { child =>   val count: int = (child \ "result" \ "notificationcount").extract[int]   ... }