Oh man! Thanks so much, guys! I'll report back with my results. I'm
breathing a sigh of relief. :)
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 7:23 PM, cowwoc <cowwoc_at_bbs.darktech.org> wrote:
> I also recommend Jackson. It works really well and the author provides
> awesome technical support!
>
> https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/ contains a short
> introduction.
>
> Normally Jackson serializes POJO into a JSON map (key-value pairs). If you
> want to serialize a POJO directly into an array (as opposed to a map with a
> single value) then you can do something like this:
>
> public class GetUsers
> {
> private final List<URI> users;
>
> @JsonCreator
> public GetUsers(List<URI> users)
> throws NullPointerException
> {
> this.users = ImmutableList.copyOf(users);
> }
>
> @JsonValue
> public List<URI> getUsers()
> {
> return users;
> }
> }
>
> @JsonCreator indicates which constructor to use for deserializing from
> JSON.
> @JsonValue indicates that you want to use a single getter method for
> serialization as opposed to the default behavior of mapping multiple getter
> methods into an associative map.
>
> Good luck! :)
>
> Gili
>
>
> On 19/08/2014 6:05 PM, Paul O'Fallon wrote:
>
> You could try switching from MOXy to Jackson (leaving the above code the
> same) and see if that makes a difference. I have code in a JerseyTest
> which looks almost identical to yours and it works (with Jackson, anyway).
> In the past I've had some seemingly trivial serialization code that didn't
> work with MOXy but worked as soon as I switched to Jackson.
>
> - Paul
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 5:37 PM, John Brooks <iresprite_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Honestly, I'm happy to consider other solutions if they work! I picked
>> MOXy primarily because the documentation indicated it was the default and
>> preferred way of handling JSON. I don't mind taking a step back and
>> approaching it via Jackson or JAXB. Could either of you point me at some
>> good working examples?
>>
>> Thanks again!
>> John
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 5:23 PM, cowwoc <cowwoc_at_bbs.darktech.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Same with Jackson, but I think John is looking for a MOXY-specific
>>> solution so this doesn't help him.
>>>
>>> Gili
>>>
>>>
>>> On 19/08/2014 5:14 PM, Guy Rouillier wrote:
>>>
>>>> We are using JAXB to serialize and deserialize annotated classes.
>>>> Works well with single objects as well as list of objects. Also works
>>>> equally well with XML and JSON.
>>>>
>>>> On 8/19/2014 2:29 PM, John Brooks wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've been banging around on this some more and coming up with no
>>>>> progress (including posting to StackOverflow
>>>>> <
>>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25310759/deserializing-json-with-jersey-and-moxy-into-a-list-collection>),
>>>>>
>>>>> so I'm wondering if it's time to come up with a new approach. How do
>>>>> other folks here deserialize JSON into collections?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers!
>>>>> John
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>