Given a Json, is it possible to use Jackson to only parse out a section of the message?
Say that the data I'm interested in is buried in a deep hierarchy of fields and I simply do not care about creating DTO classes for each and every class.
Given a very simplified scenario I'd like to model the Telephone class without knowing anything about the structure before it:
...{
"firstName": "John",
"lastName" : "doe",
"age" : 26,
"address" : {
"streetAddress": "naist street",
"city" : "Nara",
"postalCode" : "630-0192"
},
"phoneNumbers": [
{
"type" : "iPhone",
"number": "0123-4567-8888"
},
{
"type" : "home",
"number": "0123-4567-8910"
}
]
}....
I'm thinking something in the terms of using json-path together with deserializing just the parts I'm interested of. Some pseudo:
List phoneNrs = parse(".my.deep.structure.persons.phoneNumbers", List);
解决方案
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
JsonNode json = mapper.readTree("... your JSON ...");
Using the JsonNode object you can then call get("my").get("deep").get("structure") to get the node you want.
Once you got your hands on that node, a simple call to mapper.treeToValue(myDeepJsonNode, Telephone[].class) will get you your array ofTelephone. You can get a list using a TypeReference as well.
To get to your deep JsonNode you can also use the findValue and findPath methods.