Is it possible to configure jackson to always add the type of the serialized object to the generated json output.
For example:
package org.acme;
class ClassA
{
String a;
String b;
}
and I want the generated json to be:
["org.acme.ClassA",{"a":"str1","b":"str2"}]
You can do that with enableDefaultTyping() of the ObjectMapper
e.g.
mapper.enableDefaultTyping(DefaultTyping.OBJECT_AND_NON_CONCRETE);
See ObjectMapper API
If your are free to change from Jackson and do not especially need the format to match the one your are showing you can try Genson http://code.google.com/p/genson.
For example if your requirement is to be able to deserialize interfaces or abstract classes based on the original type of the object you serialized you can do:
interface Entity {}
static class Person implements Entity {}
Genson genson = new Genson.Builder().setWithClassMetadata(true).create();
// json will be equal to {"#class":"my.package.Person"}
String json = genson.serialize(new Person());
// and now Genson is able to deserialize it back to Person using the information
// in the Json Object
Person person = (Person) genson.deserialize(json, Entity.class);
Another nice feature is the ability to define aliases for your classes, so you show less information in the json stream but also this allows you to do refactoring without worring of existing json streams (for example if you store it in a database).
Genson genson = new Genson.Builder().addAlias("person", Person.class).create();
// json value is {"#class": "person"}
String json = genson.serialize(new Person());
Have a look at the wiki.
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I'm using Flink to process some JSON-format data coming from some Data Source.
For now, my process is quite simple: extract each element from the JSON-format data and print them into log file.
Here is my piece of code:
// create proper deserializer to deserializer the JSON-format data into ObjectNode
PravegaDeserializationSchema<ObjectNode> adapter = new PravegaDeserializationSchema<>(ObjectNode.class, new JavaSerializer<>());
// create connector to receive data from Pravega
FlinkPravegaReader<ObjectNode> source = FlinkPravegaReader.<ObjectNode>builder()
.withPravegaConfig(pravegaConfig)
.forStream(stream)
.withDeserializationSchema(adapter)
.build();
final StreamExecutionEnvironment env = StreamExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment();
DataStream<ObjectNode> dataStream = env.addSource(source).name("Pravega Stream");
dataStream.???.print();
Saying that the data coming from Pravega is like this: {"name":"titi", "age":18}
As I said, for now I simply need to extract name and age and print them.
So how could I do this?
As my understanding, I need to make some customized codes at ???. I might need to create a custom POJO class which contains ObjectNode. But I don't know how. I've read the official doc of Flink and also tried to google about how to create a custom POJO for Flink but I can't still figure out clearly.
Could you please show me an example?
Why don't You simply use something more meaningful instead of JavaSerializer? Perhaps something from here.
You could then create a POJO with the fields you want to use and simply deserialize JSON data to Your POJO instead of ObjectNode
Also, if there is some specific reason that You need to have ObjectNode on deserialization then You can simply do something like :
//I assume You have created the class named MyPojo
dataStream.map(new MapFunction<ObjectNode, MyPojo>() {
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
#Override
public MyPojo map(final ObjectNode value) throws Exception {
mapper.readValue(value.asText(), MyPojo.class)
}
})
I am new to JACKSON serialization, and writing Test cases for model classes.
So when i serialise an another object initialized in this model class following anomaly is seen::
Example::
class ToTest{
ABC abc;
//getter setter
}
class Test{
//everything that is needed
#Test
public void serialize() throws Exception{
ToTest toTest = new ToTest();
ABC abc = new ABC();
toTest.setABC(abc);
}
Now when I serilize this toTest object: the json string is missing the "ABC" class name. So i am not able to equalise them. Please help.
Jackson does not explicitly write out the class names when doing serialization do JSON. This is by design as the POJO objects used in serialization are intended for describing the contents of the JSON data, not necessarily preserving the class.
With that said, there are a few things you can do. If you want to preserve the original class, you can use annotations to add a class field, which might solve your issue. A quick search resulted in this as an example:
include class name in all objects serialized by jackson
I have a grails object that I am converting using def json = object as JSON. After I have it converted I want to add one more property called pin to the JSON which looks like the following.
[location:[lat:23.03, lon:72.58]]
Only way to do this so far seems like following
Serialize the DomainClass to JSON using grails.converters.json
Convert the JSON to string
Create JSONBoject using the string from Step 2
Add the property
Convert it back to String
Any other way to do this using grails.converters.json? I have tried using Gson but I do not want to go that route because I am getting many Circular Reference Errors
Try this:
domainInstance.properties + [pin: pinInstance] as JSON
I recently needed to do a similar thing. Some caveats:
This is using Grails 2.4.5
I use MongoDB as a backend. As such, I created an object marshaller for MongoDB domain classes. It is printed below, and you can wrap a similar marshaller for your domain class(es):
Marshaller:
class MongodbObjectMarshaller implements ObjectMarshaller<JSON> {
#Override
boolean supports(Object o) { return o?.properties?.dbo }
#Override
void marshalObject(Object obj, JSON converter) throws
ConverterException {
Map propertiesToOutput = obj.properties.dbo
propertiesToOutput.remove("_id") //don't print org.bson.types.ObjectId
propertiesToOutput.remove("version") //don't print gorm verson column
converter.build {
_id obj.id.toString()
propertiesToOutput.each{ entry ->
"$entry.key" entry.value
}
}
}
}
What that marshaller does, it allow in JSON output any of the domain class's properties. obj.properties.dbo is special to MongoDB, but for a regular domain class, you can just grab the properties and exclude the ones you don't need.
Then in my controller, this works:
domainInstance.pin = [location:[lat:23.03, lon:72.58]]
def content = tacticalCard as JSON
because my marshaller now picks up the pin property and prints it.
I am using resttemplate with jackson to marshall/unmarshall java/json objects.
What would be the best strategy to serialize/deserialize
a Map that may contain key value pairs such that keys are strings and values could
be various types for example an ArrayList of custom objects
I did some research on this site and found the use of #JsonAnyGetter #JsonAnySetter
could be used in this situation, but wasnt sure of how to deserialize in the context
of resttemplate getforobject method. Would one have to write a custom httpmessageconverter
to accomplish the deserialization?
Thanks in advance.
We'll assume you have a response like this:
{ key1: "something", key2: 3}
You'll want to have a DTO that has those fields:
class CustomResponse {
private String key1;
private long key2;
}
Make sure you add getters and setters for the above.
Now make your request:
restTemplate.postForObject(url, requestObject, CustomResponse.class);
The request object can be either a DTO like the above or just use Arrays and Maps to construct the requestObject.
You should add this annotation to your response DTOs. This ensures that if there are fields in the response that don't map in your DTO, they will be ignored.
#JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
So I have a class that I was planning on using for simple JSON serialization.
public class Thing {
private int field1;
private String some_other_field;
private List<SubType> subs;
private list<AnotherType> another;
public String toJson() {
Gson g = new Gson();
g.toJson(this);
}
}
So the documentation shows that if you want to serialize generic types, you need to specify a TypeToken:
Type listtype = new TypeToken<List<SubType>>() {}.getType();
gson.toJson(subs, listtype);
But then, how does this work if I have a whole class I want to serialize for? Where do I get to specify the serialization type for those two List<> types so that I can just pass the whole object in and get a serialized output? Is that even possible?
From the doc it seems that if you serialize a complete object with toJson(...), it deals with the generics attributes properly.
toJson(Object)
"Note that this method works fine if the any of the object fields are of generic type, just the object itself should not be of a generic type"
What output did you get with your object ?