JSONFormatter (GemFire Java API Documentation)

```
public class JSONFormatter
extends Object
```
PdxFormatter class has static methods to convert JSON document into PdxInstance and methods to convert back PdxInstance into JSON Document. Using this, application can put json document in gemfire cache. Application can define indexes on PdxInsatnce and then query those using OQL. Query will return the PdxInstances as results, that needs to convert back into JSON document. This uses Jackson parser to parse the json document. Parser treats values in json document as number(byte, short, int, long..), string, array, object, 'true', 'false' or 'null'. Which further treated as corresponding java types in PdxInstance JSON objects are converted into PdxInstance JSON arrays are converted into List.

Fields
Modifier and Type	Field and Description
`static String`	`JSON_CLASSNAME`

Methods
Modifier and Type	Method and Description
`static PdxInstance`	`fromJSON(byte[] jsonByteArray)` To create PdxInstance from JSON string
`static PdxInstance`	`fromJSON(String jsonString)` To create PdxInstance from JSON string
`static String`	`toJSON(PdxInstance pdxInstance)` To create JSON string from PdxInstance
`static byte[]`	`toJSONByteArray(PdxInstance pdxInstance)` To create JSON byte array from PdxInstance

Class JSONFormatter