Hi everyone,

I have a question concerning Json deserialization using Jackson. I would like to deserialize a Json file using a class like this one: (taken from http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonInFiveMinutes)

public class User 
{
    public enum Gender { MALE, FEMALE };
    public static class Name {
      private String _first, _last;
      public String getFirst() { return _first; }
      public String getLast() { return _last; }
      public void setFirst(String s) { _first = s; }
      public void setLast(String s) { _last = s; }
    }
    private Gender _gender;
    private Name _name;
    private boolean _isVerified;
    private byte[] _userImage;
    public Name getName() { return _name; }
    public boolean isVerified() { return _isVerified; }
    public Gender getGender() { return _gender; }
    public byte[] getUserImage() { return _userImage; }
    public void setName(Name n) { _name = n; }
    public void setVerified(boolean b) { _isVerified = b; }
    public void setGender(Gender g) { _gender = g; }
    public void setUserImage(byte[] b) { _userImage = b; }
}

A Json file can be deserialized using the so called "Full Data Binding" in this way:

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
User user = mapper.readValue(new File("user.json"), User.class);

My problem is the usage of the inner class "Name". I would like to do the same thing without using inner classes. The "User" class would became like that:

import Name;
import Gender;
public class User 
{
    private Gender _gender;
    private Name _name;
    private boolean _isVerified;
    private byte[] _userImage;
    public Name getName() { return _name; }
    public boolean isVerified() { return _isVerified; }
    public Gender getGender() { return _gender; }
    public byte[] getUserImage() { return _userImage; }
    public void setName(Name n) { _name = n; }
    public void setVerified(boolean b) { _isVerified = b; }
    public void setGender(Gender g) { _gender = g; }
    public void setUserImage(byte[] b) { _userImage = b; }
}

This means to find a way to specify to the mapper all the required classes in order to perform the deserialization.

Is this possible? I looked at the documentation but I cannot find any solution.

My need comes from the fact that I use the Javassist library to create such classes, and it does not support inner or anonymous classes.

Thank you in advance