How use jackson ObjectMapper inside custom deserializer?

Question

I try to write custom jackson deserializer. I want \"look\" at one field and perform auto deserialization to class, see example below:

import com.fasterxml.j         


        

Answer 1

In order to use your own ObjectMapper inside a custom deserializer, you can use Jackson Mix-in Annotations (the DefaultJsonDeserializer interface) to dynamically remove the custom deserializer from the POJO classes, avoiding the StackOverflowError that would otherwise be thrown as a result of objectMapper.readValue(JsonParser, Class<T>).

public class MyDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<MyInterface> {

    private static final ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();

    static {
        objectMapper.addMixIn(MySuccess.class, DefaultJsonDeserializer.class);
        objectMapper.addMixIn(MyFailure.class, DefaultJsonDeserializer.class);
    }

    @Override
    public MyInterface deserialize(JsonParser jp, DeserializationContext ctxt) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
        if (jp.getCodec().<JsonNode>readTree(jp).has("custom_field")) {
            return objectMapper.readValue(jp, MyFailure.class);
        } else {
            return objectMapper.readValue(jp, MySuccess.class);
        }           
    }

    @JsonDeserialize
    private interface DefaultJsonDeserializer {
        // Reset default json deserializer
    }

}

Answer 2

The immediate problem seems to be that the @JsonDeserialize(using=...) is being picked up for your implementations of MyInterface as well as MyInterface itself: hence the endless loop.

You can fix this my overriding the setting in each implementation:

@JsonDeserialize(using=JsonDeserializer.None.class)
public static class MySuccess implements MyInterface {
}

Or by using a module instead of an annotation to configure the deserialization (and removing the annotation from MyInterface):

mapper.registerModule(new SimpleModule() {{
    addDeserializer(MyInterface.class, new MyDeserializer());
}});

On a side-note, you might also consider extending StdNodeBasedDeserializer to implement deserialization based on JsonNode. For example:

@Override
public MyInterface convert(JsonNode root, DeserializationContext ctxt) throws IOException {
    java.lang.reflect.Type targetType;
    if (root.has("custom_field")) {
        targetType = MyFailure.class;
    } else {
        targetType = MySuccess.class;
    }
    JavaType jacksonType = ctxt.getTypeFactory().constructType(targetType);
    JsonDeserializer<?> deserializer = ctxt.findRootValueDeserializer(jacksonType);
    JsonParser nodeParser = root.traverse(ctxt.getParser().getCodec());
    nodeParser.nextToken();
    return (MyInterface) deserializer.deserialize(nodeParser, ctxt);
}

There are a bunch of improvements to make to this custom deserializer, especially regarding tracking the context of the deserialization etc., but this should provide the functionality you're asking for.

Answer 3

This did the trick for me:

ctxt.readValue(node, MyFailure.class)