On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 6:34 AM Tristan Lins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately I can not use POJOs because the data structure is completely 
> defined by the user.
>
> And a custom map deserializer is unfortunately difficult to implement because 
> the standard MapSerializer is not extendable.
> Too many private and final methods :-(
>
> I'll probably do it now with wrapper objects.
> However, I will change the whole Map to Map<String,Value> or something like 
> that.
> The map is anyway only for transport and does not belong to a public API.
> Then I do not have to do any transformation of the map.
>
> Thank you very much for your feedback!

Sorry I couldn't be of much more help. XML is tricky, but I hope you
can get things to work.

-+ Tatu +-

>
> Am Freitag, 28. September 2018 07:32:45 UTC+2 schrieb Tatu Saloranta:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:29 PM Tristan Lins <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I need to serialize / deserialize a Map<String, Object> to / from XML with 
>>> dataformat-xml / XmlMapper.
>>>
>>> It works fine with JSON when using default typing.
>>> But when deserialize the XML, the typing of primitive types (especially 
>>> numeric and boolean) get lost.
>>>
>>> Every number and boolean is treated as string, when deserializing.
>>>
>>> java.lang.AssertionError: expected: java.lang.Integer<123> but was: 
>>> java.lang.String<123>
>>>
>>> At the moment I manage with my own module and serializers for the primitive 
>>> types.
>>> This works fine only with JsonTypeInfo.As.WRAPPER_OBJECT, but with 
>>> JsonTypeInfo.As.WRAPPER_ARRAY, deserialization fails.
>>> Attached is a unit test and the module.
>>>
>>> But I wonder if there is not a better way?
>>
>>
>> Maps and XML are problematic as XML is inherently text based and has no 
>> mechanism (in base XML specification, not including optional XML Schema 
>> languages and definitions) for differentiating between numbers, strings and 
>> booleans. Or between Arrays and Objects for that matter.
>>
>> Couple of approaches you can use to start binding string values are:
>>
>> 1. Use of POJOs: Jackson can coerce String values into numbers (etc)
>> 2. Two-pass processing: first into intermediate structures, then use your 
>> own detection to derive numbers
>> 3. Custom deserializer for `Map` type.
>>
>> -+ Tatu +-
>>
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