Circe is a JSON library for Scala powered by Cats. Let's use it to parse a JSON fragment and extract some data.

import io.circe._ import io.circe.parser._ import io.circe.optics.JsonPath._ object ParseSomeJson {  

Here we declare a simple JSON string.

val json = """ { "id": "c730433b-082c-4984-9d66-855c243266f0", "values": { "bar": true, "baz": 100.001 } } """  

Let's we parse the JSON string into a Json value. We need provide a default in case of the JSON cannot be parsed.

val doc: Json = parse(json).getOrElse(Json.Null) for { 

We can now use Optics to traverse the Json value and extract the relevant parts.

bar <- root.values.bar.boolean.getOption(doc) baz <- root.values.baz.double.getOption(doc) } yield (bar,baz) }