Jackson deserialization of type with different objects

Question

I have a result from a web service that returns either a boolean value or a singleton map, e.g.

Boolean result:

{
    id: 24428,
    rated: false
}
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Answer 1

I asked a similar question - JSON POJO consumer of polymorphic objects

You have to write your own deserialiser that gets a look-in during the deserialise process and decides what to do depending on the data.

There may be other easier methods but this method worked well for me.