JSON Object Deserialization with Nested Map, Java Spring

Question

From what I have searched and found this very well may not be possible but any help would be appreciated.

I have a spring controller that accepts a DTO that I have created and one of the attributes is a Map. On my html page I am trying to bundle a map from the page into the JSON but the only way I have found to do this is to convert the map into an array. This causes the deserialization to fail because of incompatible types.

E.G.

Controller:

@PostMapping("/mapping")
public ResponseEntity addThing(@Validated @RequestBody Dto dto, BindingResult result){
    //Do some stuff
}

Dto:

public class Dto {
     ...
     private Map<Integer, String> map;
     ...
}

Javascript:

...
var map = new Map();
$("#mapBody tr").map(function () {
     var value = $(this).find( "input[name=value]").val();
     var index = $(this).find("input[name=index]").val();
     map.set(index, value);
});
...
var data = {
//other values
"map": Array.from(map.entries()), //This is what I have found so far but 
                                  //this is what I believe needs to be changed
//Some more values
}
...
$.ajax({
   url: "/mapping",
   type: "POST",
   data: JSON.stringify(data),
   ...
});

As mentioned above, the changing into an array makes the deserialization fail, but otherwise the stringify makes the map into just: {} which I know is the expected behavior.

Is there anyway I can change this to make it do what I would like it to?

EDIT: This is the result of the stringify with the Array.from()

"{
  //values
  "map":[["0","value"],["1","another value"],["2","third value"]], 
  //more values
 }"

And like I mentioned above, if I just use "map":map then the resulting parsing is "map":{}

Looks you have key as string in JSON, but you are trying to assign it to Map<Integer, String> — Ulad
– Ulad, Commented Nov 30, 2018 at 16:36
@vlad324 That's a good point. Any idea how I can make sure that those are integers instead of strings after the Array.from(map.entries())? — G. Blandin
– G. Blandin, Commented Nov 30, 2018 at 16:40
@G.Blandin try this one map.set(parseInt(index), value); never mind, stupid idea — Ulad
– Ulad, Commented Nov 30, 2018 at 16:46
@vlad324 I found using Number($(this).find("input[name=index]").val()); made it a number so that works, however this still does not fix the deserialization issue. — G. Blandin
– G. Blandin, Commented Nov 30, 2018 at 16:51

Ulad · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-01 11:27:51Z

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I just thought a little about your problem. We can't serialize JS Map() properly (Problems with JS map serialization), so my preposition is to change your code in this way:

...
var map = {}; // using object instead of map 
$("#mapBody tr").map(function () {
     var value = $(this).find( "input[name=value]").val();
     var index = $(this).find("input[name=index]").val();
     map[index] = value; // setting property of object
});
...
var data = {
//other values
"map": map, // using map object instead of array
//Some more values
}
...
$.ajax({
   url: "/mapping",
   type: "POST",
   data: JSON.stringify(data),
   ...
});

So resulting JSON looks like this:

'{"id":1,"map":{"1":"val1","2":"val2","3":"val3"},"otherProperty":"otherValue"}'

And this one is parsable to DTO with HashMap<Integer, String> map inside. Try it please and let me know if it works.

answered Dec 1, 2018 at 11:27

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G. Blandin Over a year ago

Thanks a bunch! This solved the issue. I didn't think just using an object would map correctly but it did. Thanks again!

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