advance JSON Reading

[gentle vault]

I've been reading up on Jackson for a while to find a solution to this, but I've decided to finally just ask for help. I'm looking for a specific capability in reading a JSON.

My JSON source is one big array, with single objects stored at every index. Something like,

[
{ name: sarah, age: 12, eyes: "blue"},
{ name:ben, age: 23, eyes: "brown"}
]

I'd like to make a value search(in this example names) that returns the nested object with that give property value. The reason for is to have access to the other properties grouped with that one. In this case, I'd like to return the age and eyes color of a given person's name.

Is there something like this in Jackson or am I looking in the wrong place?

[vast mason]

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[vast mason]

Please format your code to make it more readable.
For java, it should look like this:
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[muted bay]

I mean, Jackson can load your json into objects, then you can iterate over the objects until you find the name you want

[gentle vault]

I was hoping to avoid actually iterating though myself. I kinda assumed there was a better or already defined way of doing so.

[muted bay]

I think you're looking for JsonPath, but I'm not sure what do you figure you would gain from that

You're talking as if a loop was more complicated than integrating 3 different technologies

[gentle vault]

I found the Jsonpath, but I figured it didn't work in this case. Since the specific name is not a property key leading to a new object as its pair. Instead the name is just another property, and each object is just randomly placed in an array.

I also already have to work with Jackson, so I figured it was better to use it than iterating

[muted bay]

I don't think Jackson does that. You can probably beat it into building a Map rather than a List, but if you need to fight against the library then why use the library?

[vast mason]

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