[SOLVED] How to map JSON field names to Java object field names

How to map JSON field names to Java object field names

Currently, I'm creating REST Service with Spring.

My request handler in @RestController:

@RequestMapping(value = "employees/", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public Response setEmployees(@RequestBody Employee employee) {
    Response response = employeeManager.setEmployee(employee);
    return response;
}

Employee has fields like: login,tabNumber,firstName etc.

The real problem is that my REST service customers want to send request with another field names, that does not corresponds to Java naming conventions. Like TABNUMBER, UNITS_NAME etc. Jackson API converts JSON data to Java object corresponding to it field names... How to solve it? How can I bind custom JSON field names to my Java object field names?

Solution

You can use JsonProperty annotation as below so your clients can send request field name as FIRST_NAME and it can mapped to Employee class :

@Data // comes from lombok
class Employee {
    @JsonProperty("FIRST_NAME")
    private String firstName;

//other fields
}