Jackson - Deserialising JSON string - TypeReference vs TypeFactory.constructCollectionType

Question

To deserialise JSON string to a list of class, different ways listed at StackOverflow question

Type 1 (docs link):

List someClassList =          


        

Answer 1

One more way you can achieve this is by :

List list = Arrays.asList(mapper.readValue(jsonString, SomeClass[].class));