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New question.  I am trying to deserialize a JSON file into an object tree, using ObjectMapper.  So far so good.  However, the schema of the JSON file is inconsistent.  Sometimes a property is a string, other times an array.  Sometimes it’s a boolean, other times it’s a nested object.

I can make some changes to the schema, but I cannot really redesign it.  I’ve already managed to merge the string/array case by forcing it to always be an array, but I don’t know what to do with for bool/object case.  Any suggestions?

I typically de-serialize to a LinkedHashMap and then parse to an Object tree by hand.  It's ugly, but it works

a few options, all along the lines of accepting a range of cases and normalizing them:
1. Write custom deserializers that can take, for example “0”, “1", true, “true” etc for a boolean, and any other combinations;
2. Deserialize to a Map or a JsonNode tree and start normalizing from there; at this point you can either regenerate now-normalized JSON and bind that to objects, or create the objects by hand as an extension of the normalization (as noted above)
