Found out these problems can be addressed by using
ObjectMapper#convertValue(Object fromValue, Class<T> toValueType)
As a result, the origal quuestion can be solved in a 2-step converison:
Demarshall the JSON back to an object - in which the Map<String, Object>
is demarshalled as a HashMap<String, LinkedHashMap>
, by using bjectMapper#readValue().
Convert inner LinkedHashMaps back to proper objects
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
Class clazz = (Class) Class.forName(classType);
MyOwnObject value = mapper.convertValue(value, clazz);
To prevent the 'classType' has to be known in advance, I enforced during marshalling an extra Map was added, containing <key, classNameString>
pairs. So at unmarshalling time, the classType can be extracted dynamically.