How to deserialize a blank JSON string value to null for java.lang.String?

Question

I am trying a simple JSON to de-serialize in to java object. I am however, getting empty String values for java.lang.String property values. In rest of

Answer 1

A simple work around would be to replace "" with null before deserializing the json string.

.replace("\"\"", "null")

This way all blank string will be deserialized as null