Hi folks, apologies in advances for the not “kotli...

# jackson-kotlin

[gmariotti]

Hi folks, apologies in advances for the not “kotlin specific” question. Does anyone knows if it is possible to set the mapper to write nested json as a string? For example, a map like mapOf("key" to mapOf("innerKey" to "value")) serialized as { "key": "{\"innerKey\": \"value\"}" } instead of {"key": {"innerKey": "value"}}

[araqnid]

I don’t think there’s a simple way to configure something like that, especially if your data model is just Maps.
In a class-based model, you could annotate @JsonSerialize at a specific point and write a serializer/converter to marshal the value as a JSON string there.

[gmariotti]

Thanks 🙏. I imagined that was the case, but still worth a try asking