How to implement custom deserializer using @JsonDeserialize annotation in Java?\\n

The @JsonDeserialize annotation is used to declare custom deserializer while deserializing JSON to Java object. We can implement a  custom deserializer by extending the StdDeserializer class with a generic type Employee and need to override the deserialize() method of StdDeserializer class.

Syntax

@Target(value={ANNOTATION_TYPE,METHOD,FIELD,TYPE,PARAMETER})
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
public @interface JsonDeserialize

In the below program, we can implement a custom deserializer using @JsonDeserialize annotation

Example

import java.io.*;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.*;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.*;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.*;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.*;
public class JsonDeSerializeAnnotationTest {
   public static void main (String[] args) throws JsonProcessingException, IOException {
      Employee emp = new Employee(115, "Adithya");
      ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
      String jsonString = mapper.writeValueAsString(emp);
      emp = mapper.readValue(jsonString, Employee.class);
      System.out.println(emp);
   }
}
// CustomDeserializer class
class CustomDeserializer extends StdDeserializer<Employee> {
   public CustomDeserializer(Class<Employee> t) {
      super(t);
   }
   public CustomDeserializer() {
      this(Employee.class);
   }
   @Override
   public Employee deserialize(JsonParser jp, DeserializationContext dc) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
      int id = 0;
      String name = null;
      JsonToken currentToken = null;
      while((currentToken = jp.nextValue()) != null) {
         switch(currentToken) {
            case VALUE_NUMBER_INT:
            if(jp.getCurrentName().equals("id")) {
               id = jp.getIntValue();
            }
            break;
            case VALUE_STRING:
            switch(jp.getCurrentName()) {
               case "name":
               name = jp.getText();
               break;
               default:
               break;
            }
            break;
            default:
            break;
         }
      }
      return new Employee(id, name);
   }
}
// Employee class
@JsonDeserialize(using=CustomDeserializer.class)
class Employee {
   private int id;
   private String name;
   public Employee(int id, String name) {
      this.id = id;
      this.name = name;
   }
   public int getId() {
      return id;
   }
   public String getName() {
      return name;
   }
   @Override
   public String toString() {
      StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("ID: ").append(this.id).append("\nName: ").append(this.name);
      return sb.toString();
   }
}

Output

ID: 115
Name: Adithya