spray-json VS Play JSON

Compare spray-json vs Play JSON and see what are their differences.

spray-json

A lightweight, clean and simple JSON implementation in Scala (by spray)
JSON json-parser json-serialization Scala
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Play JSON

The Play JSON library (by playframework)
JSON DSL convenience-macros json-ast automatic-conversion Scala Playframework Scalajs Serialization Serializer
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spray-json Play JSON
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0.0 8.4
3 months ago 15 days ago
Scala Scala
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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spray-json

Posts with mentions or reviews of spray-json. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-29.
  • Scala JSON Parser
    1 project | /r/scala | 16 Jul 2022
    I use json spray and like it a lot :) https://github.com/spray/spray-json
  • Performance of 12 JSON parsers for Scala
    9 projects | /r/scala | 29 Mar 2021
    I've updated results of benchmarks of 12 JSON parsers for Scala: - AVSystem's scala-commons - Borer - Circe - DSL-JSON - Jackson - jsoniter-scala - Play-JSON, - play-json-jsoniter - Spray-JSON - uPickle - weePickle - zio-json

Play JSON

Posts with mentions or reviews of Play JSON. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-29.
  • Scala 3 with pulsar4s and Circe or Play Json
    1 project | /r/scala | 10 Aug 2022
    I have personally used play-json in Scala 3 without issues so far (see https://github.com/playframework/play-json/issues/769).
  • Performance of 12 JSON parsers for Scala
    9 projects | /r/scala | 29 Mar 2021
    I've updated results of benchmarks of 12 JSON parsers for Scala: - AVSystem's scala-commons - Borer - Circe - DSL-JSON - Jackson - jsoniter-scala - Play-JSON, - play-json-jsoniter - Spray-JSON - uPickle - weePickle - zio-json

What are some alternatives?

When comparing spray-json and Play JSON you can also consider the following projects:

circe - Yet another JSON library for Scala

jackson-module-scala - Add-on module for Jackson (https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson) to support Scala-specific datatypes

json4s - JSON library

diffson - A scala diff/patch library for Json

play-json

jsoniter-scala - Scala macros for compile-time generation of safe and ultra-fast JSON codecs

scala-json - Compile-time JSON marshaling and abstraction for Scala, Scala Native and Scala.js

sonofjson - Better JSON support for Scala

DSL-JSON - High performance JVM JSON library

spray-json vs circe Play JSON vs circe spray-json vs jackson-module-scala Play JSON vs jackson-module-scala spray-json vs json4s Play JSON vs diffson spray-json vs play-json Play JSON vs jsoniter-scala spray-json vs scala-json Play JSON vs sonofjson spray-json vs jsoniter-scala Play JSON vs DSL-JSON