Generating String similar to JSON without quotes.

[cemo]

How can I configure Jackson to generate text similar to JSON without quotes? I will use this as a String for aesthetic purposes and set inside another Map<String, String>. What is the easiest way to create?

[cowtowncoder]

I think I need bit more information on what you mean by "similar to JSON without quotes".

If you mean 'raw' output ("just include this String verbatim with no modifications in output"), that would be via streaming API's writeRaw() and/or writeRawValue() (former adds no decorations whatsoever; latter adds necessary separators like commas).
And at databind level it can be done with @JsonRawValue annotation.

[cemo]

      ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
      HashMap<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>();
      map.put("a", 1);
      map.put("b", "hello");
      System.out.println(objectMapper.writeValueAsString(map));

This is generating:

{"a":1,"b":"hello"}

I want this (please note that hello is also without quote):

{a:1,b:hello}

[cowtowncoder]

Ok. It is possible to force use of unquoted property names with JsonGenerator.Feature.QUOTE_FIELD_NAMES (defaults to true, disable).
There is no setting for doing that to values: if you really want that, writing a custom unquoted-String serializer would be easy; it'd just use writeRawValue() instead of writeString().

[Abhishek-P]

In stringSerializer with a WriterBasedJsonGenerator writeString() adds quotation marks " at each end of the string. Since we already know the walue being passed is a string, do we need to add an extra pair of quotation marks ??
And if yes How can I avoid that...
om.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-core/2.8.7/b7aa166b68d41d9e5aabf81d5783c61f773cefc7/jackson-core-2.8.7-sources.jar!/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/json/WriterBasedJsonGenerator.java:355

[cowtowncoder]

@Abhishek-P please send usage questions on mailing lists. Adding comments at the end of closed issues is not going to do you much good.

Also make sure you understand role of JsonGenerator: it will output JSON Strings that are quoted and escaped. If you don't want that don't use writeString().