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[Jersey] Re: Unmarshalling JSON nulls?

From: Mike Summers <msummers57_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:49:37 -0600

Ah, I see, gotcha.

I'm going to put my test case into the debugger when I get a chance and see
just where the in-coming nulls are getting modified, I'll let you know what
I find.

Thanks for your thoughts.

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Tatu Saloranta <tsaloranta_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mike Summers <msummers57_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Correct, this particular application requires the use of JAXB
> annotations,
> > it cannot work with just POJO mapping.
>
> But what I am trying to say is that POJO mapping can use JAXB
> annotations just fine (at least significant subset).
>
> >
> > So the question stands, is there a way to control Jersey's unmarshalling
> > behavior when the target objects are JAXB annotated and POJOMapping is
> > false? In particular, why are in-coming JSON nulls not mapped to Java
> null?
>
> I have not used other modes, perhaps someone else can comment on this part.
> I suspect that for some, problems comes from XML compatibility layer,
> which makes it hard to distinguish between empty content and nulls.
>
> -+ Tatu +-
>