Hi, another question about deserialising with Jack...

# jackson-kotlin

[phil-t]

Hi, another question about deserialising with Jackson - is it possible to deserialise fields with unknown names?
Here is an example which is part of a response which I want to deserialise:

"types": {
  "10003327": {
    "typeNumber": 11,
    "classNumber": 335,
    "display": 0,
    "max": "2000",
    "name": "My type"
  }
},

The number 10003327 could be different in each response. If I was to use the data classes below I think it would work only for this example, but in another response with a different number it wouldn’t work:

data class Response(
    val types: NumberType
)

data class NumberType(
    @JsonProperty("10003327") val typeField: Type
)

data class Type(
    val typeNumber: Int,
    val classNumber: Int,
    val display: Int,
    val max: String,
    val name: String
)

Is there a way to deserialise this completely when you don’t know what the number of the field will be, maybe with another annotation?

[christophsturm]

you could use a map

[christophsturm]

Map<String, Type>

[phil-t]

Thanks I’ll give that a try 👍