How to wrap a List as top level element in JSON generated by Jackson

Question

I am running into a problem where I am trying to include a List as the root node, but I can\'t seem to be able to get this. Let me explain. Let\'s say we have a class \"Test

Answer 1

I'd expect the basic idea to be something like:

class UtilityClass {
    List listOfTestClasses;
    UtilityClass(List tests) {
        this.listOfTestClasses = tests;
    }
}

String utilityMethod(){
    List list = someService.getList();
    UtilityClass wrapper = new UtilityClass(list);
    new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(wrapper); 
}