Jackson JSON deserialization with multiple parameters constructor

Question

I\'ve been using FasterXML/Jackson-Databind in my project for a while now, and all was working great, until I\'ve discovered this post and started to use this approach to de

Answer 1

@JsonCreator is not required after having @JsonProperty("xxx") in the parameter

Answer 2

Short answer: use Java 8, javac -parameters, and jackson-module-parameter-names

Long answer: Why when a constructor is annotated with @JsonCreator, its arguments must be annotated with @JsonProperty?

Answer 3

You need to add the annotation @JsonProperty specifying the name of the json property that needs to be passed to the constructor when creating the object.

public class Cruise extends WaterVehicle {

 private Integer maxSpeed;

  @JsonCreator
  public Cruise(@JsonProperty("name") String name, @JsonProperty("maxSpeed")Integer maxSpeed) {
    super(name);
    System.out.println("Cruise.Cruise");
    this.maxSpeed = maxSpeed;
  }

  public Integer getMaxSpeed() {
    return maxSpeed;
  }

  public void setMaxSpeed(Integer maxSpeed) {
    this.maxSpeed = maxSpeed;
  }

}

EDIT

I just tested using the below code and it works for me

import java.io.IOException;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonCreator.Mode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.module.paramnames.ParameterNamesModule;

class WaterVehicle {

    private String name;
    private int capacity;
    private String inventor;
    public WaterVehicle(String name) {
        this.name=name;
    }
    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }
    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
    public int getCapacity() {
        return capacity;
    }
    public void setCapacity(int capacity) {
        this.capacity = capacity;
    }
    public String getInventor() {
        return inventor;
    }
    public void setInventor(String inventor) {
        this.inventor = inventor;
    }


}

 class Cruise  extends WaterVehicle{

        private Integer maxSpeed;

        public Cruise(String name, Integer maxSpeed) {
            super(name);
            this.maxSpeed = maxSpeed;
        }

        public Integer getMaxSpeed() {
            return maxSpeed;
        }

        public void setMaxSpeed(Integer maxSpeed) {
            this.maxSpeed = maxSpeed;
        }


    }

public class Test {
      public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        Cruise cruise = new Cruise("asd", 100);
        cruise.setMaxSpeed(100);
        cruise.setCapacity(123);
        cruise.setInventor("afoaisf");

        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper().enable(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT);
        mapper.registerModule(new ParameterNamesModule(Mode.PROPERTIES));

        String jsonString = mapper.writeValueAsString( cruise);
        System.out.println(jsonString);

        Cruise anotherCruise = mapper.readValue(jsonString, Cruise.class);
         System.out.println(anotherCruise );
         jsonString = mapper.writeValueAsString( anotherCruise );
         System.out.println(jsonString);

    }

}

It produces the following output

{
  "name" : "asd",
  "capacity" : 123,
  "inventor" : "afoaisf",
  "maxSpeed" : 100
}
Cruise@56f4468b
{
  "name" : "asd",
  "capacity" : 123,
  "inventor" : "afoaisf",
  "maxSpeed" : 100
}

Make sure you have the compilerArgs in the pom file.

<compilerArgs>
     <arg>-parameters</arg>
</compilerArgs>