Clean string from backslashs and put the results into data strucutre

I have this string

"[{\"name\":\"john\",\"family\":[],\"status\":\"single\"},{\"name\":\"david\",\"family\":[],\"status\":\"marred\"}]"

how can I clean up the backslashs from this string and put the entities into a data structure?

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

import org.json.JSONArray;
import org.json.JSONException;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

public class SOTest {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws JsonMappingException, JsonProcessingException, JSONException {
		ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
		String jsonString = "[{\"name\":\"john\",\"family\":[],\"status\":\"single\"},{\"name\":\"david\",\"family\":[],\"status\":\"marred\"}]";
		List<CustomClass> datas = mapper.readValue(jsonString, new TypeReference<List<CustomClass>>() {});
		System.out.println(datas);
	}
}

class CustomClass {
	public String name;
	public List<CustomClass> family;
	public String status;

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return "Data [name=" + name + ", family=" + family + ", status=" + status + "]";
	}
}

output

[Data [name=john, family=[], status=single], Data [name=david, family=[], status=marred]]

The string looks okay. The escaping is done to use the string within java.

Use a library like Jackson. For your task.

• Complete read/write example

• Example on how to read json to a map

• Example on how to read json to a JsonNode

Written in jshell console so you need to add classes etc as needed

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonCreator;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

import java.io.IOException;

try {
    String json = "[{\"name\":\"john\",\"family\":[],\"status\":\"single\"},{\"name\":\"david\",\"family\":[],\"status\":\"marred\"}]";
    json = json.replace("\\\"", "\"");
    System.out.println(json);

    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
    Person[] persons = mapper.readValue(json, Person[].class);
    System.out.println(persons[0].name);
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

static class Person {

    public final String name;
    public final String[] family;
    public final String status;

    @JsonCreator
    public Person(
            @JsonProperty("name") String name,
            @JsonProperty("family") String[] family,
            @JsonProperty("status") String status
    ) {
        this.name = name;
        this.family = family;
        this.status = status;
    }
}