Jackson read json in generic List

Question

I\'m using Jackson in order to read json messages. One of the values that I\' trying to parse is a List and another value contains the type of the data in the list. This is

Answer 1

You need to annotate your class with @JsonDeserialize(using = MessageDeserializer.class) and implement custom deserializer:

public class MessageDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer {
  @Override
  public Message deserialize(JsonParser jsonParser, DeserializationContext deserializationContext)
    throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
    // YOU DESERIALIZER CODE HERE
  }
}

@see examples here: How Do I Write a Jackson JSON Serializer & Deserializer?