How do I unwrap a list of list wrapped items in Jackson?

Mridang Agarwalla :

I have a bean that resembles this:

public class Product {

    public String id;
    public String vendor;
    public Set<Image> images;
}

public class Image {

    public String originalSrc;
}

I'm trying to deserialize my JSON that resembles this:

{
  "id": "gid:\/\/mysite\/Product\/1853361520730",
  "vendor": "gadgetdown",
  "images": {
    "edges": [
      {
        "node": {
          "originalSrc": "https:\/\/cdn.something.com"
        }
      },
      {
        "node": {
          "originalSrc": "https:\/\/cdn.something.com"
        }
      }
    ]
  }

I'm unable to deserialize the object as each of the image objects are wrapped in a node object and collectively in a edges object.

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EDIT: For clarity, I don't want to accomplish this via using beans and this example is a simplification and all array items in the JSON payload are wrapped in this edges and node representation.

Michał Ziober :

If every list has a structure like below:

{
  "images": {
    "edges": [
      {
        "node": {
          "entry": "entry-value"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Each list is a JSON Object with edges property and each element in array is wrapped by JSON Object with node property. For this structure we can write generic deserializer similar to one from Jackson - deserialize inner list of objects to list of one higher level question.

Example Set deserialiser:

class InnerSetDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<Set> implements ContextualDeserializer {

  private final JavaType propertyType;

  public InnerSetDeserializer() {
    this(null);
  }

  public InnerSetDeserializer(JavaType propertyType) {
    this.propertyType = propertyType;
  }

  @Override
  public Set deserialize(JsonParser p, DeserializationContext context) throws IOException {
    p.nextToken(); // SKIP START_OBJECT
    p.nextToken(); // SKIP any FIELD_NAME

    CollectionType collectionType = getCollectionType(context);
    List<Map<String, Object>> list = context.readValue(p, collectionType);

    p.nextToken(); // SKIP END_OBJECT

    return list.stream().map(Map::values).flatMap(Collection::stream).collect(Collectors.toSet());
  }

  private CollectionType getCollectionType(DeserializationContext context) {
    TypeFactory typeFactory = context.getTypeFactory();
    MapType mapType =
        typeFactory.constructMapType(
            Map.class, String.class, propertyType.getContentType().getRawClass());

    return typeFactory.constructCollectionType(List.class, mapType);
  }

  @Override
  public JsonDeserializer<?> createContextual(DeserializationContext context, BeanProperty property) {
    return new InnerSetDeserializer(property.getType());
  }
}

We can use is as below:

class Product {

  private String id;
  private String vendor;

  @JsonDeserialize(using = InnerSetDeserializer.class)
  private Set<Image> images;

  // getters, setters
}

Example app:

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.BeanProperty;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JavaType;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonDeserialize;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.ContextualDeserializer;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.type.CollectionType;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.type.MapType;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.type.TypeFactory;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

public class JsonApp {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    File jsonFile = new File("./resources/test.json");

    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
    Product product = mapper.readValue(jsonFile, Product.class);
    System.out.println(product);
  }
}

Above code prints:

Product{id='gid://mysite/Product/1853361520730', vendor='gadgetdown', images=[Image{originalSrc='https://cdn.something.com'}, Image{originalSrc='https://cdn.something.com'}]}