Jersey 2.6 with Jackson JSON deserialization

Question

My goal is to make web calls and convert returned JSON to POJOs. I'm trying to use Jersey+Jackson for this but am getting exceptions when running.

My maven pom file includes the following dependencies -

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
    <version>2.6</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
    <artifactId>jersey-media-json-jackson</artifactId>
    <version>2.6</version>
</dependency>

The code I use to make fetch some data is as follows -

Client client = ClientBuilder.newBuilder()
            .register(JacksonFeature.class)
            .build();
ClientResponse response = client.target(url).request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).get(ClientResponse.class);

But the following exception is throw -

javax.ws.rs.ProcessingException: Error reading entity from input stream.
at org.glassfish.jersey.message.internal.InboundMessageContext.readEntity(InboundMessageContext.java:868)
at org.glassfish.jersey.message.internal.InboundMessageContext.readEntity(InboundMessageContext.java:785)
at org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientResponse.readEntity(ClientResponse.java:335)
...
...
Caused by: org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException: Can not find a deserializer for non-concrete Map type [map type; class javax.ws.rs.core.MultivaluedMap, [simple type, class java.lang.String] -> [collection type; class java.util.List, contains [simple type, class java.lang.String]]]
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.StdDeserializerProvider._createAndCache2(StdDeserializerProvider.java:315)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.StdDeserializerProvider._createAndCacheValueDeserializer(StdDeserializerProvider.java:290)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.StdDeserializerProvider.findValueDeserializer(StdDeserializerProvider.java:159)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.std.StdDeserializer.findDeserializer(StdDeserializer.java:620)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.BeanDeserializer.resolve(BeanDeserializer.java:379)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.StdDeserializerProvider._resolveDeserializer(StdDeserializerProvider.java:407)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.StdDeserializerProvider._createAndCache2(StdDeserializerProvider.java:352)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.StdDeserializerProvider._createAndCacheValueDeserializer(StdDeserializerProvider.java:290)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.StdDeserializerProvider.findValueDeserializer(StdDeserializerProvider.java:159)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.StdDeserializerProvider.findTypedValueDeserializer(StdDeserializerProvider.java:180)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper._findRootDeserializer(ObjectMapper.java:2829)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper._readValue(ObjectMapper.java:2699)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:1315)
at org.codehaus.jackson.jaxrs.JacksonJsonProvider.readFrom(JacksonJsonProvider.java:419)
at org.glassfish.jersey.message.internal.ReaderInterceptorExecutor$TerminalReaderInterceptor.invokeReadFrom(ReaderInterceptorExecutor.java:257)
at org.glassfish.jersey.message.internal.ReaderInterceptorExecutor$TerminalReaderInterceptor.aroundReadFrom(ReaderInterceptorExecutor.java:229)
at org.glassfish.jersey.message.internal.ReaderInterceptorExecutor.proceed(ReaderInterceptorExecutor.java:149)
at org.glassfish.jersey.message.internal.MessageBodyFactory.readFrom(MessageBodyFactory.java:1124)
at org.glassfish.jersey.message.internal.InboundMessageContext.readEntity(InboundMessageContext.java:853)
... 90 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can not find a deserializer for non-concrete Map type [map type; class javax.ws.rs.core.MultivaluedMap, [simple type, class java.lang.String] -> [collection type; class java.util.List, contains [simple type, class java.lang.String]]]
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.BasicDeserializerFactory.createMapDeserializer(BasicDeserializerFactory.java:424)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.StdDeserializerProvider._createDeserializer(StdDeserializerProvider.java:380)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.StdDeserializerProvider._createAndCache2(StdDeserializerProvider.java:310)
... 108 more

Am I missing some setup to get this to work right? I have tried the url via curl and browser and it returns JSON as expected.

Answer 1

What you need is a Response and not a ClientResponse:

javax.ws.rs.core.Response jsonResponse = client.target(url).request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).get();

Then you can see what comes in your response (debugging is your friend here). Is it by any chance a map of some type? If it is, you can read it by doing e.g.

Map<SomeClassOfYours> entitiesFromResponse = jsonResponse.readEntity(new GenericType<Map<SomeClassOfYours>>() {});

If you've put a normal entity in the response you can simply do something like:

SomeClassOfYours entityFromResponse = jsonResponse.readEntity(SomeClassOfYours.class);

Edit: For this to work you'd also need to define SomeClassOfYours and put the corresponding fields, constructor, getters and setters in there.

Edit2: When in doubt you can always read the jsonResponse as a String.class and put it in a String variable.