This is the method:
protected <T> TestPageResult<T> getTestPageResutForRequest(MockHttpServletRequestBuilder request) throws Exception {
String responseJson = mockMvc.perform(request).andReturn().getResponse()
.getContentAsString();
TestPageResult<T> response = getObjectMapper().readValue(responseJson,
new TypeReference<TestPageResult<T>>() {
});
return response;
}
I call it like this:
TestPageResult<SomeDto> pageResult = this.<SomeDto>getTestPageResutForRequest(getRequest());
TestPageResult is:
protected static class TestPageResult<T> {
private List<T> items;
private long totalCount = -1;
public TestPageResult() {
}
//omitted getters and setters
}
The resulting pageResult.getItems() contains a List of LinkedHashMap instead of a list of SomeDto. If I were to just hardcode the SomeDto type in the objectMapper.readValue method I'd get the correct results.
What's the problem?
edit: The suggested duplicated did solve my problem - kind of. I used:
JavaType type = getObjectMapper().getTypeFactory().constructParametricType(TestPageResult.class, clazz);
TestPageResult<T> response = getObjectMapper().readValue(responseJson, type);
Problem is there is no going around not passing down a Class argument to the method. So the method looks ugly due to both passing a generic type and the same thing as a Class. Obviously you can just not pass the generic now but this way a casting would be required and adding SuppressWarnings and so on.