Merge pull request aol#368 from aol/davidartplus-jacksonutil

davidartplus · web-flow · commit e937f40cfe82 · 2017-09-04T16:00:36.000+01:00
Implementation for convertFromJson with TypeReference
diff --git a/micro-jackson-configuration/src/main/java/com/aol/micro/server/rest/jackson/JacksonUtil.java b/micro-jackson-configuration/src/main/java/com/aol/micro/server/rest/jackson/JacksonUtil.java
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude.Include;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JavaType;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
 
 public final class JacksonUtil {
 
@@ -94,6 +95,15 @@ public static <T> T convertFromJson(final String jsonString, final JavaType type
 		return null;
 
 	}
+	
+	public static <T> T convertFromJson(String json, final TypeReference<T> type) {
+		try {
+			return JacksonUtil.getMapper().readValue(json, type);
+		} catch (final Exception ex) {
+			ExceptionSoftener.throwSoftenedException(ex);
+		}
+		return null;
+	}
 
 	public static Object serializeToJsonLogFailure(Object value) {
 		try {
