Jersey unmarshal JSON: Last element null does not work - json

Question

I am using Jersey to parse the following JSON:
{"response":{"status":"OK","campaigns":[{"id":12345,"state":"active","code":null}]}}
But I get the following error message:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No more parsing elements.
If I switch the position of the fields code and state so that the resulting JSON looks like
{"response":{"status":"OK","campaigns":[{"id":12345,"code":null,"state":"active"}]}}
everything works fine. Also if I change the code-field in the first JSON to a non-null value like "code":"test", Jersey can parse this without any problems. I tried other more complex examples always getting the above mentioned error message when leaving the last field of any element of an array null.
I think I am doing something wrong, because I could not find any others having the similar problem. I already tried to implement a CustomJAXBContextResolver using other JSON notations like natural but nothing worked for me.
Any ideas?
Here are my binding classes:
#XmlRootElement
public class LoadEntityResponse {
public LoadEntityResponse() {
}
private Response response;
public Response getResponse() {
return response;
}
public void setResponse(Response response) {
this.response = response;
}
}
and
public class Response {
public Response() {
}
private String status;
private String error;
private String error_id;
private Campaign[] campaigns;
public String getStatus() {
return status;
}
public void setStatus(String status) {
this.status = status;
}
public String getError() {
return error;
}
public void setError(String error) {
this.error = error;
}
public String getError_id() {
return error_id;
}
public void setError_id(String error_id) {
this.error_id = error_id;
}
public Campaign[] getCampaigns() {
return campaigns;
}
public void setCampaigns(Campaign[] campaigns) {
this.campaigns = campaigns;
}
}
and finally
public class Campaign{
public Campaign() {
}
protected int id;
protected String code;
protected String state;
public int getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(int id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getCode() {
return code;
}
public void setCode(String code) {
this.code = code;
}
public String getState() {
return state;
}
public void setState(String state) {
this.state = state;
}
}
Solved: Using JacksonJsonProvider now:
...
DefaultClientConfig config = new DefaultClientConfig();
config.getClasses().add(JacksonJsonProvider.class);
...
that´s all!

Answer 1

You can also use Jackson POJO support that comes with jersey-json but there is a need to do some configuration, see POJO support in Jersey User Guide.

Answer 2

Try using Genson http://code.google.com/p/genson/.
To enable it on client side use the following code:
ClientConfig config = new DefaultClientConfig();
config.getClasses().add(GensonJsonConverter.class);
cli = Client.create(config);
EDIT: on server side there is no configuration needed, when the jar is in your classpath json support is automatically enabled.