I've just started working on a project using the play framework,jongo and MongoDB. The project was initially written in Play 2.1 with pojos with an String id field annotated with both: @Id and @ObjectId This would persist to Mongo as an ObjectId and when deserialized would output the id as: "id":"53fcb9ede4b0b18314098d10" for example.
Since upgrading to Jongo 1.1 and Play 2.3.3 the id attribute is always named "_id" when deserialized, I want the attribute to retain the field name yet I can't use @JsonProperty("custom_name") as the Jongo @Id annotation does @JsonProperty("_id") behind the scenes.
import org.jongo.marshall.jackson.oid.Id;
import org.jongo.marshall.jackson.oid.ObjectId;
public class PretendPojo {
@Id
@ObjectId
private String id;
private String name;
public PretendPojo() {
}
public PretendPojo(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public String getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(String id) {
this.id = id;
}
}
The POJOs when persisted in MongoDB look like this if I view them via RoboMongo
{
"_id" : ObjectId("53fc984de4b0c34f1905b8ee"),
"name" : "Owen"
}
However when I deserialize them I get the following json if I keep both annotations:
{"name":"Owen","_id":{"time":1409072858000,"date":1409072858000,"timestamp":1409072858,"new":false,"timeSecond":1409072858,"inc":308487737,"machine":-458223042}}
and the following output if I only use the @Id annotation.
{"name":"Owen","_id":"53fcbedae4b0123e12632639"}
I have a test case for working with the PretendPojo show above:
@Test
public void testJongoIdDeserialization() throws UnknownHostException {
DB database = new MongoClient("localhost", 27017).getDB("jongo");
Jongo jongo = new Jongo(database);
MongoCollection collection = jongo.getCollection("jongo");
collection.save(new PretendPojo("Owen"));
PretendPojo pretendPojo = collection.findOne("{name: \"Owen\"}").as(PretendPojo.class);
JsonNode json = Json.toJson(pretendPojo);
assertNotNull(json.get("id"));
}
When trying to use custom deserializers I never can get hold of the object ID I seem to only have access to the date/time/timestamp data that is currently being deserialized.
Ideally the output I'm looking for would be:
{"name":"Owen","id":"53fcbedae4b0123e12632639"}
Any help will be greatly appreciated! :)