Why can't I unwrap the root node and deserialize an array of objects?

Question

Why am I not able to deserialize an array of objects by unwrapping the root node?

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List         


        

Answer 1

it seems you can't escape a wrapper class. according to this, the @JsonRootName annotation will only allow you to unwrap a json that contains a single instance of your pojo: so it will work for a String like this: "{\"customer\":{\"email\":\"hello@world.com\"}}";