Spring @RequestBody and Enum value

Question

I Have this enum

public enum Reos {

    VALUE1(\"A\"),VALUE2(\"B\"); 

    private String text;

    Reos(String text){this.text = text;}

         


        

Answer 1

I personally prefer writing my own deserializer class using JsonDeserializer provided by jackson. You just need to write a deserializer class for your enum. In this example:

class ReosDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer {

    @Override
    public Reos deserialize(JsonParser jsonParser, DeserializationContext deserializationContext) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {

        ObjectCodec oc = jsonParser.getCodec();
        JsonNode node = oc.readTree(jsonParser);

        if (node == null) {
            return null;
        }

        String text = node.textValue(); // gives "A" from the request

        if (text == null) {
            return null;
        }

        return Reos.fromText(text);
    }
}

Then, we should mark the above class as a deserializer class of Reos as follows:

@JsonDeserialize(using = ReosDeserializer.class)
public enum Reos {

   // your enum codes here
}

That's all. We're all set.

In case if you need the serializer for the enum. You can do that in the similar way by creating a serializer class extending JsonSerializer and using the annotation @JsonSerialize.

I hope this helps.