A slight variation on Richards answer but readTree can take a string so you can simplify it to:

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
JsonNode actualObj = mapper.readTree("{\"k1\":\"v1\"}");

This is documented on mkyong and quoted here:

Jackson is a High-performance JSON processor Java library. In this tutorial, we show you how to use Jackson’s data binding to convert Java object to / from JSON.

For object/json conversion, you need to know following two methods :

//1. Convert Java object to JSON format
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.writeValue(new File("c:\\user.json"), user);
//2. Convert JSON to Java object
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
User user = mapper.readValue(new File("c:\\user.json"), User.class);

Note: Both writeValue() and readValue() has many overloaded methods to support different type of inputs and outputs. Make sure check it out.

1. Jackson Dependency Jackson contains 6 separate jars for different purpose, check here. In this case, you only need “jackson-mapper-asl” to handle the conversion, just declares following dependency in your pom.xml

   <repositories>
       <repository>
           <id>codehaus</id>
           <url>http://repository.codehaus.org/org/codehaus</url>
       </repository>
   </repositories>
   
   <dependencies>
       <dependency>
           <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
           <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
           <version>1.8.5</version>
       </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   

   For non-maven user, just get the Jackson library here.

2. POJO

   An user object, initialized with some values. Later use Jackson to convert this object to / from JSON.

   package com.mkyong.core;
   
   import java.util.ArrayList;
   import java.util.List;
   
   public class User {
   
       private int age = 29;
       private String name = "mkyong";
       private List<String> messages = new ArrayList<String>() {
           {
               add("msg 1");
               add("msg 2");
               add("msg 3");
           }
       };
   
       //getter and setter methods
   
       @Override
       public String toString() {
           return "User [age=" + age + ", name=" + name + ", " +
                   "messages=" + messages + "]";
       }
   }
   

3. Java Object to JSON Convert an “user” object into JSON formatted string, and save it into a file “user.json“.

   package com.mkyong.core;
   
   import java.io.File;
   import java.io.IOException;
   import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerationException;
   import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException;
   import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
   
   public class JacksonExample {
       public static void main(String[] args) {
   
       User user = new User();
       ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
   
       try {
   
           // convert user object to json string, and save to a file
           mapper.writeValue(new File("c:\\user.json"), user);
   
           // display to console
           System.out.println(mapper.writeValueAsString(user));
   
       } catch (JsonGenerationException e) {
   
           e.printStackTrace();
   
       } catch (JsonMappingException e) {
   
           e.printStackTrace();
   
       } catch (IOException e) {
   
           e.printStackTrace();
   
       }
   
     }
   
   }
   

   Output

   {"age":29,"messages":["msg 1","msg 2","msg 3"],"name":"mkyong"}
   

   Note Above JSON output is hard to read. You can enhance it by enable the pretty print feature.

4. JSON to Java Object

   Read JSON string from file “user.json“, and convert it back to Java object.

   package com.mkyong.core;
   
   import java.io.File;
   import java.io.IOException;
   import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerationException;
   import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException;
   import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
   
   public class JacksonExample {
       public static void main(String[] args) {
   
       ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
   
       try {
   
           // read from file, convert it to user class
           User user = mapper.readValue(new File("c:\\user.json"), User.class);
   
           // display to console
           System.out.println(user);
   
       } catch (JsonGenerationException e) {
   
           e.printStackTrace();
   
       } catch (JsonMappingException e) {
   
           e.printStackTrace();
   
       } catch (IOException e) {
   
           e.printStackTrace();
   
       }
   
     }
   
   }
   

Output

    User [age=29, name=mkyong, messages=[msg 1, msg 2, msg 3]]

To convert your object in JSON with Jackson:

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper; 
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter; 

ObjectWriter ow = new ObjectMapper().writer().withDefaultPrettyPrinter();
String json = ow.writeValueAsString(object);

Try this,

You can't create a new string like your doing.

    String string = "{\"id\":100,\"firstName\":\"Adam\"}";
    Student student = mapper.readValue(string, Student.class);