How to use Jackson to deserialise an array of objects

Question

The Jackson data binding documentation indicates that Jackson supports deserialising \"Arrays of all supported types\" but I can\'t figure out the exact syntax for this.

Answer 1

For Generic Implementation:

public static  List parseJsonArray(String json,
                                         Class classOnWhichArrayIsDefined) 
                                         throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
   ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
   Class arrayClass = (Class) Class.forName("[L" + classOnWhichArrayIsDefined.getName() + ";");
   T[] objects = mapper.readValue(json, arrayClass);
   return Arrays.asList(objects);
}