Parsing Text

import groovy.json.JsonSlurper 

class Example {
   static void main(String[] args) {
      def jsonSlurper = new JsonSlurper()
      
      def object = jsonSlurper.parseText('{ "name": "John", "ID" : "1"}') 
	  def str = object.replace("John", "****");
      
      println(str);
	  
      println(object.name);
      println(object.ID);
      
    
   } 
}