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[Jersey] Re: Nested objects with Jersey/JSON

From: Jakub Podlesak <jakub.podlesak_at_oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:24:06 +0200

Hi WIlliam,

This should generally be supported.

The best JSON suport for Jersey you get when using the POJO feature (see
[1]).
Does it still break? Can you provide some more information on your Java
model
(ideally a maven based reproducible test case)?

~Jakub

[1]http://jersey.java.net/nonav/documentation/latest/json.html#d4e903

On 24.8.2011 23:10, William Todd wrote:
> We have been looking at using JSON to provide a REST service in our
> application
> This seems to work fine for a top level object with collections of
> child objects to one level - but we cannot see how to serialise an
> object graph which is more that 2-levels deep
> For example we can get:
>
> {"level0":{
> "uuid":"123",
> "level1":{
> "uuid":"456"
> }
> }
>
> But not
>
> {"level0":{
> "uuid":"123",
> "level1":{
> "uuid":"456",
> "level2":{
> "uuid":789"
> }
> }
> }
>
> Is this a matter of configuration or is it simply not supported?
>
> --
>
> William Todd