How to annotate enum fields for deserialization using Jackson json

Question

I am using REST web service/Apache Wink with Jackson 1.6.2. How do I annotate an enum field so that Jackson deserializes it?

Inner class

public enum          


        

Answer 1

public enum BooleanField
{
    BOOLEAN_TRUE("1"),      
    BOOLEAN_FALSE("0");
    
    private final String value;

    BooleanField( int value ) { this.value = value; }
    
}

Deserializer

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.ObjectCodec;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;

public class BooleanFieldDeserializer extends Json Deserializer {
    
    public BooleanField deserialize( JsonParser p, DeserializationContext ctx )
    throws IOException 
    {
        // boilerplate code for every deserializer
        ObjectCodec objectCodec = p.getCodec();
        JsonNode node = objectCodec.readTree(p);

        // customizable part for your impl
        String booleanFieldString = node.asText();
        return valueOf( booleanFieldString ); <- Enum-supplied method
    }

Then, in your JavaBean...

@JsonDeserialize(using = BooleanFieldDeserializer.class)
BooleanField locked;