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/* * Copyright (C) 2005-2014 Alfresco Software Limited. * * This file is part of Gytheio * * Gytheio is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * Gytheio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License * along with Gytheio. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ package org.gytheio.messaging.jackson; import java.io.IOException; import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException; import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext; import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.KeyDeserializer; public class JsonClassKeyDeserializer extends KeyDeserializer { public static Object deserializeKeyToClass(String key) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException { if (!key.startsWith("class ")) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid key format"); } String classname = key.replaceFirst("class ", ""); try { return JsonClassKeyDeserializer.class.getClassLoader().loadClass(classname); } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) { throw new IllegalArgumentException(e); } } @Override public Object deserializeKey(String key, DeserializationContext ctxt) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException { return deserializeKeyToClass(key); } }