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Creating complex JSON payload from Java Pojo Jackson

I want to create below JSON payload
{
"maxResults":3,
"counter":0,
"customerParameters":{
"filters":[
{
"name":"customerId",
"operator":"=",
"value":["hello"]
}
]
},
"dealerParameters":[
{
"name":"club"
},
{
"name":"token"
}
]
}
Coded so far:
#JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
#JsonPropertyOrder({
"maxResults",
"counter",
"customerParameters",
"dealerParameters"
})
public class CustomerModel {
#JsonProperty("maxResults")
private Integer maxResults;
#JsonProperty("counter")
private Integer counter;
#JsonProperty("customerParameters")
private CustomerParameters customerParameters;
#JsonProperty("dealerParameters")
private List<DealerParameter> dealerParameters = null;
#JsonProperty("customerParameters")
public CustomerParameters getCustomerParameters() {
return customerParameters;
}
#JsonProperty("customerParameters")
public void setCustomerParameters(CustomerParameters customerParameters) {
this.customerParameters = customerParameters;
}
#JsonProperty("dealerParameters")
public List<DealerParameter> getDealerParameters() {
return dealerParameters;
}
#JsonProperty("dealerParameters")
public void setDealerParameters(List<DealerParameter> dealerParameters) {
this.dealerParameters = dealerParameters;
}
// Getter/Setter for other params
}
CustomerParameters.java
#JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
#JsonPropertyOrder({
"filters"
})
public class CustomerParameters {
#JsonProperty("filters")
private List<Filter> filters = null;
// Setter and Getter for filters parameter
}
DealerParameters.java
#JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
#JsonPropertyOrder({
"name"
})
public class DealerParameter {
#JsonProperty("name")
private String name;
#JsonProperty("name")
public String getName() {
return name;
}
#JsonProperty("name")
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
}
Filter.java
#JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
#JsonPropertyOrder({
"name",
"operator",
"value"
})
public class Filter {
#JsonProperty("name")
private String name;
#JsonProperty("operator")
private String operator;
#JsonProperty("value")
private List<String> value = null;
#JsonProperty("value")
public List<String> getValue() {
return value;
}
#JsonProperty("value")
public void setValue(List<String> value) {
this.value = value;
}
// Setter and Getter for other properties
}
Missing Part:
#Controller
public class TestContoller {
RestTemplate restTemplate;
Should I instantiate each pojo class with new operator as below and set all required parameters ? or any other approach of creating JSON payload?
CustomerModel customerModel= new CustomerModel();
customerModel.setMaxResults(1);
Filter filter= new Filter();
filter.setName("customerID");
filter.setOperator("-");
filter.setValue(Arrays.asList("club"));
CustomerParameters customerParameters = new CustomerParameters();
customerParameters.setFilters(Arrays.asList(filter));
customerModel.setCustomerParameters(customerParameters);
For DealerParameter class, I want to create multiple objects with same key different value(see the json payload I mentioned above). Below code creates only one object "name":"dealerId"
DealerParameter dealerParameter = new DealerParameter();
dealerParameter.setName("dealerId");
customerModel.setDealerParameters(dealerParameter);
ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
objectMapper.writeValueAsString(customerModel);
restTemplate.exchange(todo); // restful service call
}

you are already using "ObjectMapper", And ObjectMapper has readValue() method. By using readValue() method you can populate all data at a time like below:--
ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
//populating data from json string to POJO
CustomerModel customerModel = objectMapper.readValue(<json String>,CustomerModel.class);
System.out.println(objectMapper.writeValueAsString(customerModel); // print all data

Get the value of items of a Json with Java Spring Boot

I'm trying to extract API data from the Json file below.
I want to retrieve the "name" of each "item".
Once the "name" is retrieved, I want to create a new Json that will contain :
{name: "toto", name: "titi"....}
The goal is then to create an API on my side which on a call from http://localhost/getitems will return the result of the Json created.
I'm new to Java and Spring Boot, so if you think there is a code that is easier, let me know, i hope you can help me to create that new Json file easily. Thanks !
// Json File (it has been reduced, more than 700 name are present)
{
"kind": "Space",
"apiVersion": "v1",
"metadata": {
"selfLink": "something",
"resourceVersion": "something"
},
"items": [
{
"metadata": {
"name": "projet1"
}
},
{
"metadata": {
"name": "com-cicd"
}
}
]
}
// TestGet.java Class
public static NameSpaceJson getPostWithCustomHeaders(String DebutUrl, String MilieuUrl, String ParamUrl) {
String url = DebutUrl.concat(MilieuUrl).concat(ParamUrl);
String Bearer = "...";
// create headers & template
HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
// set `accept` header for the type of response
headers.setAccept(Collections.singletonList(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));
// set custom header, bearer here too
headers.set("x-request-source", "desktop");
headers.set("Authorization", "Bearer "+Bearer);
// build the request
#SuppressWarnings({ "rawtypes", "unchecked" })
HttpEntity request = new HttpEntity(headers);
// use `exchange` method for HTTP call, this one permits us to use bearer for auth
ResponseEntity<NameSpaceJson> response = restTemplate.exchange(url, HttpMethod.GET, request, NameSpaceJson.class, 1);
if(response.getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.OK) {
return response.getBody();
} else {
return null;
}
}
// The name in the same file
public static void main(String[] args) {
TestGet.disableSSLCertificateChecking();
NameSpaceJson resultresponse = getPostWithCustomHeaders("https...","api","names");
// Long response = resultresponse.getValue().getId();
List<Item> response = resultresponse.getItems();
String test = GenerateNewJsonNameSpace.createJsonContent(response);
System.out.println(test);
}
//NameSpaceJson.java File
package com.example.consumingrest;
import java.util.List;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
#JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class NameSpaceJson {
private String kind;
private String apiVersion;
private List<Item> items;
public String getKind() {
return kind;
}
public void setKind(String kind) {
this.kind = kind;
}
public String getApiVersion() {
return apiVersion;
}
public void setApiVersion(String apiVersion) {
this.apiVersion = apiVersion;
}
public List<Item> getItems() {
return items;
}
public void setItems(List<Item> items) {
this.items = items;
}
}
//Metadata.java
package com.example.consumingrest;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
#JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class Metadata {
private String name;
private String creationTimestamp;
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public String getCreationTimestamp() {
return creationTimestamp;
}
public void setCreationTimestamp(String creationTimestamp) {
this.creationTimestamp = creationTimestamp;
}
}
//Item.java
package com.example.consumingrest;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
#JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class Item {
Metadata metadata;
public Metadata getMetadata() {
return metadata;
}
public void setMetadata(Metadata metadata) {
this.metadata = metadata;
}
}
// GenerateNewJsonNameSpace ( this is what i have tried.. but i'm sure we can do really better.. )
package com.example.consumingrest;
import java.util.List;
public class GenerateNewJsonNameSpace {
public static String createJsonContent(List<Item> ListOfNameSpace) {
if(ListOfNameSpace.isEmpty()) {
return null;
}else {
String LeJson;
LeJson = "{";
for(int i = 0; i < ListOfNameSpace.size(); i++) {
LeJson.concat(ListOfNameSpace.get(i).getMetadata().getName());
LeJson.concat(", \n");
}
LeJson.concat("}");
return LeJson;
}
}
}

you can use a library named Gson, which is created by google specifically for handling the JSON data.
All you need to do is create a new Gson object and parse the JSON with it.
You can do in just couple of lines
String jsonString = "{ \"kind\": \"Space\", \"apiVersion\": \"v1\", \"metadata\": { \"selfLink\": \"something\", \"resourceVersion\": \"something\" }, \"items\": [ { \"metadata\": { \"name\": \"projet1\" } }, { \"metadata\": { \"name\": \"affeccom-cicd\" } } ] }";
JsonObject data = new Gson().fromJson(jsonString, JsonObject.class);
JsonArray names = data .get("items").getAsJsonArray();
for(JsonElement element : names){
JsonObject object = element.getAsJsonObject();
System.out.println(object.get("metadata").getAsJsonObject().get("name").getAsString());
}

How to submit a JSON object with headers

I mount a list of objects and need to turn this list into a JSON, but with headers.
I'm doing it in this way:
public String convertToJson(List personDto) throws JsonProcessingException {
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
String jsonInString = mapper.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(personDto);
return jsonInString;
I do not know how to insert headers that should have some information, like: date / time, access key etc...
For information to be placed in the header!
Then I have to send a POST with Spring Boot containing this JSON object.
My JSON has to leave like this:
{
"table": "person",
"rows":
[
{
"PersonID": 1,
"name": "Name o person",
"RM": "56656565",
"RG": "8787845-7",
},
{
"PersonID": 2,
"name": "Name o person",
"RM": "56656565",
"RG": "8787845-7"
}
]
}
My DTO class:
public class PersonDto {
private Integer lNum;
private String sName;
private String sRg;
private String sRm;
public String getsRm() {
return sRm;
}
public void setsRm(String sRm) {
this.sRm = sRm;
}
public Integer getlNum() {
return lNum;
}
public void setlNum(Integer lNum) {
this.lNum = lNum;
}
public String getsName() {
return sName;
}
public void setsName(String sName) {
this.sName = sName;
}
public String getsRg() {
return sRg;
}
public void setsRm(String sRm) {
this.sRm= sRm;
}
}

You can use the jersey client for this. It integrates well with Spring
Following the is minimum stuff you need to do to hit an endpoint of an active application along with request headers
Client client = ClientBuilder.newClient();
WebTarget webTarget = client.target("http://localhost:7777/someApp/");
Response response = webTarget.request().header("key", "value").put(Entity.json(jsonInString), EXPECTED_POJO.class)

Gson is not getting populated in Java List<Object>

Getting empty java object while populating the following type of Json.
a.json:
------
{
"queries": [{
"query": {
"id": "q1",
"description": "Fire query to get the Auth token !!"
}
}
],
"executeQuery": ["q2", "q3"]
}
Query.java :
-----------
Note : #Data will take care of creating setter getter by Lombok library.
#Data
public class Query {
#Expose #SerializedName("id")
String id;
#Expose #SerializedName("description")
String description;
}
GRT.java :
----------
#Data
public class GRT{
#Expose #SerializedName("queries")
List<Query> queries ;
#Expose #SerializedName("executeQuery")
List<String> executeQuery;
}
Client call :
----------------------------------------------
private void readJson() throws IOException{
String fileName = "a.json";
// Get Gson object
Gson gson = newGsonBuilder().excludeFieldsWithoutExposeAnnotation().create();
// read JSON file data as String
String fileData = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(fileName)));
// parse json string to object
GenericRestTestDefinition grtDef = gson.fromJson(fileData, GenericRestTestDefinition.class);
System.out.println(grtDef.toString());
}
Printing the following :
GRT(queries=[Query(id=null, description=null)], executeQuery=[q2, q3])
Dont know why GRT-> Query Object is not getting populated ????

The proper JSON for this would look like this..
{
"queries":
[
{"id":"q1","description":"Fire query to get the Auth token"},
{"id":"q2","description":"Fire query to get the Auth token 2"}
]
}
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
readJson();
}
private static void readJson() throws IOException {
String json ="{\"queries\":[{\"id\":\"q1\",\"description\":\"Fire query to get the Auth token\"}]}";
// Get Gson object
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().excludeFieldsWithoutExposeAnnotation().create();
GRT grt = new GRT();
grt.setQueries(Arrays.asList( new Query[]{new Query("q1", "Fire query to get the Auth token")} ));
System.out.println(gson.toJson(grt));
// parse json string to object
GRT grtDef = gson.fromJson(json, new TypeToken<GRT>(){}.getType());
System.out.println(grtDef.queries.get(0));
}
}

If you can't change the json file format you can use this pattern:
#Data
public class GRT{
#Expose #SerializedName("queries")
private List<QueryWrapper> queries = new ArrayList<>();
public List<Query> getQueries() {
return queries.stream().map(it->it.query).collect(Collectors.toList());
}
#Expose #SerializedName("executeQuery")
List<String> executeQuery = new ArrayList<>();
}
#Data
public class QueryWrapper {
#Expose #SerializedName("query")
Query query;
}
#Data
public class Query {
public
#Expose #SerializedName("id")
String id;
#Expose #SerializedName("description")
String description;
}

List of objects in Spring MVC #RequestBody produces "Syntactically incorrect request"

I'm trying to update an object via REST services using Spring MVC + Swagger Annotations.
The method is something like this:
#ApiOperation(value = "Modifies the entity")
#RequestMapping(value = "/entity", method = RequestMethod.PUT, headers = "Accept=application/json")
#APIMonitor
#ResponseBody
public PubTagger saveEntityDetails(
HttpServletResponse response,
ModelMap model,
#RequestBody final EntityClass entityInfo
)
throws Exception {
...
}
The entity definition is:
{
"id": "long",
"description": "string",
"name": "string",
"properties": [
{
"name": "string",
"value": "string"
}
]
}
It gives me an error
The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect ()
But it only happens when I fill the objects inside the Properties field. If I leave it empty it succeeds. So I deduce there's something wrong in Spring MVC with nested objects inside lists.
Is there anything I'm missing here? Do I have to specify anything in the model to make it work?
Edit: Posting Entity class
public class Entity {
private Long id;
private String name;
private String description;
private List<Property> properties = new ArrayList<>();
public void setId(final Long id) {
this.id = id;
}
public Entity() {
super();
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(final String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public String getDescription() {
return description;
}
public void setDescription(final String description) {
this.description = description;
}
public List<Property> getProperties() {
return properties;
}
public void setProperties(List<Property> properties) {
this.properties = properties;
}
}

Thanks, I found the error.
It was the class Property that only had the Parametrized constructor, without default constructor which made unable to marshall the JSON requestBody into an object.