Deserialize ArrayList from String using Jackson

Question

I am using Spring\'s MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter to convert JSON message to object in my controller.

Answer 1

As far as I see the incoming JSON doesn't contain any array. The question is: is "images" supposed to be separated or it contains a single image? Let's assume they are comma separated:

public class Product {
   private String name;
   private List images;

   @JsonProperty("images")
   public String getImagesAsString() {
      StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
      for (String img : images) {
          if (sb.length() > 0) sb.append(',');
          sb.append(img);
      }
      return sb.toString();
   }

   public void setImagesAsString(String img) {
       this.images = Arrays.asList(img.split(","));
   }

   @JsonIgnore
   public List getImages() {
       return images;
   }
}