I am doing POJO serialization / deserialization using Jackson.
Here is a POJO exemple :
public class Pojo {
public String productId;
public String name;
}
I have to read the field productId in this JSON :
{"productId":"1","name":"exemple"}
But also in :
{"_id":"1","name":"exemple"}
To make it short, I would like to use the same object to read the field in a JSON file found somewhere and to save the object as this in MongoDB, using productId as the primary key, which has to be named _id.
Since I am using Jackson (fasterxml) both to read from the file and to write to the database, I can not find a way to do so, except by creating a new class with the same fields (or inheritance) and fill them one by one. Basically, I would like to find a way to put 2 #JsonProperty annotations on productId.
Works with both strings:
public class Pojo {
#JsonProperty("_id")
public String productId;
public String name;
#JsonProperty("productId")
public void setProductId(String id) {
productId = id;
}
}
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I am creating a requestModel and let say a person doesn't send me some keys.
If that key is not present I want to put null if i get the value of the key.
I don't want to investigate if a key is present or not .
public class CustomerModel {
private Optional<String> s3Bucket;
private Optional<String> docType;
public String getS3Bucket() {
if(s3Bucket.isPresent()) {
return s3Bucket.get();
} else {
return null;
}
}
public void setS3Bucket(Optional<String> s3Bucket) {
this.s3Bucket = s3Bucket;
}
public Optional<String> getDocType() {
return docType;
}
public void setDocType(Optional<String> docType) {
this.docType = docType;
}
}
Do we have any library or something where.
1. If i get the key and it is not present in the coming request json, i will get the null out of it and if the key is present and has value . It will be stored as value.
2. When writing the getter for s3bucket (getS3Bucket), i dont want to write it for everykey value. Is there a automatic way to do this.
I looked at lot of posts but the scenario is not there.
P.S - I am new to java
I believe Jackson is exactly what you need. And if you are using Spring - it already uses Jackson under the hood I guess.
Here you can find some examples and documentation of how JSON mapping on to model class is done.
If you need to customize some behavior, you can use annotations like #JsonProperty (there are many).
If properties in your model class have the same names as properties in JSON, most probably you won't need to provide any further configs.
Here is a simple example:
public class User {
#JsonProperty("userName")
private String name;
private int age;
// getters and setters
}
And if you have JSON like this:
{
"userName" : "Foo Bar",
"age" : 18
}
Jackson will do all the magic for you unless you need something very specific.
If something is not in JSON you get (let's say you received JSON without age) - corresponding property in model class will be null if it is object type and default value (0, false, etc.) for primitives (in our case age would be 0).
Working on a REST client that calls another server which returns the following object:
public class ObjectOriginal {
private int id;
private String name;
// constructor/getters/setters
}
I need to obfuscate the id. To do so I'm using an already existing service that transforms the id into a unique generated String so that the person calling my service doesn't know the REAL id but can still request info about it with the unique string.
So I'm basically trying to return to the caller this object:
public class ObjectNew {
private String id;
private String name;
// constructor/getters/setters
}
Do I need to have a copy of ObjectOriginalDTO + create a ObjectNew DTO + create a mapper to go from one to the other.
Or can I configure Jackson to deserialize the id field as a String and not an int?
You can do this using your own Serializer/Deserializer.
You have to implement your Serializer/Deserializer that will extends respectively BeanSerializerModifier/BeanDeserializerModifier and configuring your Module with them for instance Or use the annotation base solution as explained in this tutorial, there are plenty of references on the web for such a thing. then you'll have more controlle over the way to map your id.
If you don't want to have custom deserializer you can have:
public class ObjectNewDto {
private String id;
private String name;
// constructor/getters/setters
}
and another object:
public class ObjectOriginal {
private int id;
private String name;
// construxtor/getters/settes
}
Now after validating ObjectNewDto you can map it via your obfuscator service into ObjectOriginal , then validate this Object original and so on...
I need to serialize a pojo into different json structure depending on whom I am sending request. Also I should be able to configure in some config that how field of pojo are mapped to json properties for a given request.
Can this be achived using jackson?
Is there some library or api to do this?
Edit:
For example:
public class Universal {
private int id;
private Date date;
private String name;
private Inner inner;
private Map<String,Object> others;
private List<Inner> inners;
}
public class Inner {
private String value;
}
now above are two object i need to create dynamic json, one example for some of transformation is below
{
"id":"",//value will be id of Universal
"detials":{
"name":"",//value will be name of Universal
},
"data":[], // array of value(field of Inner) from inners
"ext":{
"prop1":""// value of this field will be some (key1) value from others
}
}
You can use Google Gson and rely on its type adaptors.
http://www.javacreed.com/gson-typeadapter-example/ is a good article from web
I am developing an application which uses Spring-boot, a relational database and Elasticsearch.
I use JSON serialization at 2 differents places in the code:
In the response of the REST API.
When the code interacts with Elasticsearch.
There are some properties that I need in Elasticsearch but that I want to hide to the application user (e.g. internal ids coming from the relational database).
Here is an example of entity :
#Document
public class MyElasticsearchEntity {
#Id
private Long id; //I want to hide this to the user.
private String name;
private String description;
}
Problem : When the object it persisted in Elasticsearch, it gets serialized as JSON. Hence, fields with #JsonIgnore are ignored when serialized to Elasticsearch.
Up to now, I found 2 unsatisfying solutions :
Solution 1 : Use #JsonProperty like this :
#Id
#JsonProperty(access = JsonProperty.Access.READ_ONLY)
private Long id;
The id gets written in Elasticsearch and is nullified in the JSON response :
{
"id" : null,
"name" : "abc",
"description" : null
}
So it works but the application user still sees that this property exists. This is messy.
Solution 2 : Cutomize the object mapper to ignore null values
Spring-boot has a built-in option for that :
spring.jackson.serialization-inclusion=NON_NULL
Problem : it suppresses all non-null properties, not only those that I want to ignore. Suppose that the field description of the previous entity is empty, the JSON response will be :
{
"name" : "abc"
}
And this is problematic for the UI.
So is there a way to ignore such field only in the JSON response?
You could use Jackson JsonView for your purpose. You can define one view which will be used to serialize pojo for the application user :
Create the views as class, one public and one private:
class Views {
static class Public { }
static class Private extends Public { }
}
Then uses the view in your Pojo as an annotation:
#Id
#JsonView(Views.Private.class) String name;
private Long id;
#JsonView(Views.Public.class) String name;
private String publicField;
and then serialize your pojo for the application user using the view:
objectMapper.writeValueUsingView(out, beanInstance, Views.Public.class);
This is one example of many others on how view can fit your question. Eg. you can use too objectMapper.configure(SerializationConfig.Feature.DEFAULT_VIEW_INCLUSION, false); to exclude field without view annotation and remove the Private view.
I am using #XmlRootElement annotation to get XML data from the database.
Right now, if I put #XmlTransient to getters, the fields are ignored.
For example:
public class Student {
private Integer studentId;
private String studentName;
#XmlTransient // Do not get student id
public Integer getStudentId() {
return this.studentId;
}
public String getStudentName() {
return this.studentName;
}
...// Setter goes here
Then, student ids are not appear in the XML file.
However, can I do this in the opposite way? I want to specify fields that I want to have in the XML file - there are too many fields in the Student class.
My server(Spring Framework 3.2.3) also uses the Jackson library, so I wonder I could use it if that is possible.
You could annotate your class with:
#XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.NONE)
Now you have to explicitly map properties in order to be serialized. See the Javadoc: http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/xml/bind/annotation/XmlAccessType.html