I am a newbie to using jackson library.

I am trying to do this [see below], and it is throwing error.

String x="{'candidateId':'k','candEducationId':1,'activitiesSocieties':'Activities for cand1'}";
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();

try {
    JsonNode df=mapper.readValue(x,JsonNode.class);
    int i=0;
} catch .....

Exception:

org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParseException: Unexpected character (''' (code 39)): was expecting double-quote to start field name
at [Source: java.io.StringReader@1afd1810; line: 1, column: 3]
  at org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParser._constructError(JsonParser.java:1291)

While the same thing works if I replace the single quote(') with double quote(").

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