deserializing json with numbered object names
Hello all,
I'm hoping to use XStream with the JettisonMappedXmlDriver to deserialize some 3rd party json output.
The json output includes numbers as object names so in my example below propertyC actually has 3 nested
objects but uses a number "1", "2", or "3" as the object name. In my real world the json usually contains
between 100 and 200 of these (it varies).
For instance:
{ "root" : { "propertyA " : "valueA",
"propertyB" : "valueB",
"propertyC" : { "1" : { "propertyC1" : "propertyC1_1_Value",
"propertyC2" : "propertyC2_1_Value",
"propertyC3" : "propertyC3_1_Value"
},
"2" : { "propertyC1" : "propertyC1_2_Value",
"propertyC2" : "propertyC2_2_Value",
"propertyC3" : "propertyC3_2_Value"
},
"3" : { "propertyC1" : "propertyC1_3_Value",
"propertyC2" : "propertyC2_3_Value",
"propertyC3" : "propertyC3_3_Value"
}
},
"propertyD" : "valueD"
} }
Can someone point me in the direction of what I'd have to do to make this work so that I could have the json
deserialized into Java objects. I thought I'd have the Root object with it's simple properties/fields
for propertyA, propertyB, and propertyD and a collection of propertyC but then I don't know how to
configure a converter and/or aliases to handle the "1", "2","3" , etc all as the same object. I'd like to
build 3 objects of the same type and where it has an extra property that really represents the object name
(the 1, 2 or 3, etc).
Are there some advance aliasing, converter and/or other tricks I could use to make this reasonable with
xstream and jettison or should I look into other json converting utilities? I don't want to "preprocess"
the json string to change its format.
Thanks!
Lynn Walton
Java Web Developer
ADP Digital Marketing Solutions
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