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I have a Spring REST controller that serializes an entity (default behaviour). For one of the fields of this entity I would like to save the actual Json (and not deserialize it).

For example:

Entity:

class Person:
  String name
  String data

Post to /person/1

{
  'name': 'John', 
  'data': {'age': 35, 'job': 'engineer'}
}

The default deserialization won't handle {'age': 35, 'job': 'engineer'} as a String value. It throws an exception (com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException).

Is there a way to accomplish this easily? I prefer to not write my own serializer/deserializer.

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    isn't as easy as adding some quotes around the string ? "{'age': 35, 'job': 'engineer'}" ? ... i didn't try it though Commented Apr 11, 2016 at 13:07
  • What about Map<String, Object> data? A specific bean holding the age and job properties could be better. Commented Apr 11, 2016 at 13:09
  • @Pras: yes, that is easy, but not what we want. We would like to make it pure JSON outside of our application. Commented Apr 11, 2016 at 13:31
  • related: stackoverflow.com/questions/8137060/…, stackoverflow.com/questions/4783421/… Commented Apr 11, 2016 at 13:32
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