Programmer Bruce: Deserialize JSON with Jackson into Polymorphic Types - A Complete Example

Programmer Bruce: Deserialize JSON with Jackson into Polymorphic Types - A Complete Example

Example 6: Simple Deserialization Without Type Element To Container Object With Polymorphic Collection

Some real-world JSON APIs have polymorphic type members, but don't include type elements (unlike the JSON in the previous examples). Deserializing such sources into polymorphic collections is a bit more involved. Following is one relatively simple solution. (This example includes subsequent serialization of the deserialized Java structure back to input JSON, but the serialization is relatively uninteresting.)

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