Custom Jackson Deserializer Getting Access to Current Field Class

Question

I\'m trying to write a custom deserializer for Jackson and I want to make it generic (generic in the sense of working on any type, not as in \"generics\").

However I

Answer 1

I solved it like this.

Get current field java type...

@Override
public Enum deserialize(JsonParser jsonparser, DeserializationContext context) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
    System.out.println("EnumDeserializer ....");
    Field field = findField(jsonparser.getCurrentName(), jsonparser.getCurrentValue().getClass());
    Class javaType = field.getType();
    return null;
}

public Field findField(String name, Class c) {
    for (; c != null; c = c.getSuperclass()) {
        for (Field field : c.getDeclaredFields()) {
            if (Modifier.isStatic(field.getModifiers())) {
                continue;
            }
            if (field.getName().equals(name)) {
                return field;
            }
        }
    }
    return null;
}