package com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std;

import java.io.IOException;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.*;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.*;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.jsontype.TypeDeserializer;

Bogus deserializer that will simply skip all content there is to map and returns Java null reference.
Since:2.2
/** * Bogus deserializer that will simply skip all content there is to map * and returns Java null reference. * * @since 2.2 */
public class NullifyingDeserializer extends StdDeserializer<Object> { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L; public final static NullifyingDeserializer instance = new NullifyingDeserializer(); public NullifyingDeserializer() { super(Object.class); } /* /********************************************************** /* Deserializer API /********************************************************** */ @Override // since 2.9 public Boolean supportsUpdate(DeserializationConfig config) { return Boolean.FALSE; } @Override public Object deserialize(JsonParser p, DeserializationContext ctxt) throws IOException { // 29-Jan-2016, tatu: Simple skipping for all other tokens, but FIELD_NAME bit // special unfortunately if (p.hasToken(JsonToken.FIELD_NAME)) { while (true) { JsonToken t = p.nextToken(); if ((t == null) || (t == JsonToken.END_OBJECT)) { break; } p.skipChildren(); } } else { p.skipChildren(); } return null; } @Override public Object deserializeWithType(JsonParser p, DeserializationContext ctxt, TypeDeserializer typeDeserializer) throws IOException { // Not sure if we need to bother but: switch (p.getCurrentTokenId()) { case JsonTokenId.ID_START_ARRAY: case JsonTokenId.ID_START_OBJECT: case JsonTokenId.ID_FIELD_NAME: return typeDeserializer.deserializeTypedFromAny(p, ctxt); default: return null; } } }