Thrift can not deserialize from json to java object

Question

I generated a java object from the following thrift object:

struct Account {
    1: required string accountType,
    2: bool accountActive,
}

Answer 1

The SimpleJSONProtocol was never intended to be deserializable. Use TJSONProtocol instead.

From http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/ThriftUsageJava:

Serializing to "Simple" JSON

TSerializer serializer = new TSerializer(new TSimpleJSONProtocol.Factory());
String json = serializer.toString(work);

The "Simple" JSON protocol produces output suitable for AJAX or scripting languages. It does not preserve Thrift's field tags and cannot be read back in by Thrift.

(emphasis mine)