scala-json-getValue

scala-json-getValue.scala

val jsonString = """{"count":100205,"_shards":{"total":5,"successful":5,"failed":0}}"""

val tweets = scala.util.parsing.json.JSON.parseFull(jsonString)

def getValue(parsedJson: Option[Any], key: String): Double = {
   parsedJson match {
     case Some(m: Map[String, Any]) => m(key) match {
        case d: Double => d
     }
   }
}

getValue(tweets, "count")