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James Martin
James Martin

Reputation: 27

Google vision response labels not returning in raw JSON format

I'm trying to get the response to be in the JSON format and for some reason Google's sample code throws a bunch of {} in the response. Using the code below I can get the response but its not in JSON format. 

public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
        // Instantiates a client
        try (ImageAnnotatorClient vision = ImageAnnotatorClient.create()) {

            // The path to the image file to annotate
            String fileName = "src/main/resources/city-park.jpg";

            // Reads the image file into memory
            Path path = Paths.get(fileName);
            byte[] data = Files.readAllBytes(path);
            ByteString imgBytes = ByteString.copyFrom(data);

            // Builds the image annotation request
            List<AnnotateImageRequest> requests = new ArrayList<>();
            Image img = Image.newBuilder().setContent(imgBytes).build();
            Feature feat = Feature.newBuilder().setType(Type.LABEL_DETECTION).build();
            AnnotateImageRequest request = AnnotateImageRequest.newBuilder()
                    .addFeatures(feat)
                    .setImage(img)
                    .build();
            requests.add(request);

            // Performs label detection on the image file
            BatchAnnotateImagesResponse response = vision.batchAnnotateImages(requests);

            System.out.println(response.toString());

        }
    }
}

Here is what the sample code will print that is close to JSON but formatted wrong. Is there anyway to get it formatted correctly?

responses {
  label_annotations {
    mid: "/m/02l215"
    description: "Reflection"
    score: 0.9883928
    topicality: 0.9883928
  }
  label_annotations {
    mid: "/m/05h0n"
    description: "Nature"
    score: 0.98085856
    topicality: 0.98085856
  }
  label_annotations {
    mid: "/m/03d28y3"
    description: "Natural landscape"
    score: 0.9740803
    topicality: 0.9740803
  }
  label_annotations {
    mid: "/m/0838f"
    description: "Water"
    score: 0.9714835
    topicality: 0.9714835
  }
  label_annotations {
    mid: "/m/038hg"
    description: "Green"
    score: 0.9620494
    topicality: 0.9620494
  }
  label_annotations {
    mid: "/m/01bqvp"
    description: "Sky"
    score: 0.96003544
    topicality: 0.96003544
  }
  label_annotations {
    mid: "/m/015s2f"
    description: "Water resources"
    score: 0.9593428
    topicality: 0.9593428
  }
  label_annotations {
    mid: "/m/07j7r"
    description: "Tree"
    score: 0.9462387
    topicality: 0.9462387
  }
  label_annotations {
    mid: "/m/01fnns"
    description: "Vegetation"
    score: 0.9326158
    topicality: 0.9326158
  }
  label_annotations {
    mid: "/m/02yq2x"
    description: "Reflecting pool"
    score: 0.8776601
    topicality: 0.8776601
  }
}

Edit: I wanted to make a quick edit to my post because while all the answers here are great and helped I found that this was what made it work the way I wanted.
String theData = com.google.protobuf.util.JsonFormat.printer().print(response);

Upvotes: 2

Views: 293

Answers (1)

Michał Ziober
Michał Ziober

Reputation: 38655

BatchAnnotateImagesResponse class extends com.google.api.client.json.GenericJson but it does not generate JSON by default. You need to set JsonFactory. You can choose provider: JacksonFactory, GsonFactory or other. After that, toString method should generate valid JSON. Example:

response.setFactory(JacksonFactory.getDefaultInstance());
response.toString();

See also:

Upvotes: 1

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