Parsing JSON using the built in parser is ugly

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Please see discussion here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4170949/how-to-parse-json-in-scala-using-standard-scala-classes

The point is that its not a easy way to parse the JSON into normal objects.

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Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-4002?orig=1
Reporter: philip142au

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@adriaanm said:
contributions welcome; EPFL does not have the resources to do this at the moment

[SethTisue]

scala.util.parsing.json was deprecated and then removed from this library