java - Convert JsonNode into POJO

Question

This may seem a little unusual, but I am looking for an efficient way to transform/map a JsonNode into a POJO.

I store some of my Model's information in json files and I have to support a couple of version of my model.

What I do is load the json file in memory in a JsonNode, apply a couple of versioning strategies to make it match the latest version of my Model.

    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
    BufferedReader fileReader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(projPath));

    JsonNode rootNode = mapper.readTree(fileReader);

    //Upgrade our file in memory
    applyVersioningStrategy(rootNode);

    ProjectModel project = mapJsonNodeToProject(rootNode);

Unless there's a faster way to do it, I will probably end up simply manually applying the JsonNodes to my Model

Answer 1

In Jackson 2.4, you can convert as follows:

MyClass newJsonNode = jsonObjectMapper.treeToValue(someJsonNode, MyClass.class);

where jsonObjectMapper is a Jackson ObjectMapper.

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In older versions of Jackson, it would be

MyClass newJsonNode = jsonObjectMapper.readValue(someJsonNode, MyClass.class);