[java] java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.LinkedHashMap cannot be cast to com.testing.models.Account

I'm getting below error:

java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.LinkedHashMap cannot be cast to com.testing.models.Account

with below code

final int expectedId = 1;

Test newTest = create();

int expectedResponseCode = Response.SC_OK;

ArrayList<Account> account = given().when().expect().statusCode(expectedResponseCode)
    .get("accounts/" + newTest.id() + "/users")
    .as(ArrayList.class);
assertThat(account.get(0).getId()).isEqualTo(expectedId);

Is there a reason why I cannot do get(0)?

Try the following:

POJO pojo = mapper.convertValue(singleObject, POJO.class);

or:

List<POJO> pojos = mapper.convertValue(
    listOfObjects,
    new TypeReference<List<POJO>>() { });

See conversion of LinkedHashMap for more information.

I have this method for deserializing an XML and converting the type:

public <T> Object deserialize(String xml, Class objClass ,TypeReference<T> typeReference ) throws IOException {
    XmlMapper xmlMapper = new XmlMapper();
    Object obj = xmlMapper.readValue(xml,objClass);
    return  xmlMapper.convertValue(obj,typeReference );   
}

and this is the call:

List<POJO> pojos = (List<POJO>) MyUtilClass.deserialize(xml, ArrayList.class,new TypeReference< List< POJO >>(){ });

When you use jackson to map from string to your concrete class, especially if you work with generic type. then this issue may happen because of different class loader. i met it one time with below scenarior:

Project B depend on Library A

in Library A:

public class DocSearchResponse<T> {
 private T data;
}

it has service to query data from external source, and use jackson to convert to concrete class

public class ServiceA<T>{
  @Autowired
  private ObjectMapper mapper;
  @Autowired
  private ClientDocSearch searchClient;

  public DocSearchResponse<T> query(Criteria criteria){
      String resultInString = searchClient.search(criteria);
      return convertJson(resultInString)
  }
}

public DocSearchResponse<T> convertJson(String result){
     return mapper.readValue(result, new TypeReference<DocSearchResponse<T>>() {});
  }
}

in Project B:

public class Account{
 private String name;
 //come with other attributes
}

and i use ServiceA from library to make query and as well convert data

public class ServiceAImpl extends ServiceA<Account> {
    
}

and make use of that

public class MakingAccountService {
    @Autowired
    private ServiceA service;
    public void execute(Criteria criteria){
      
        DocSearchResponse<Account> result = service.query(criteria);
        Account acc = result.getData(); //  java.util.LinkedHashMap cannot be cast to com.testing.models.Account
    }
}

it happen because from classloader of LibraryA, jackson can not load Account class, then just override method convertJson in Project B to let jackson do its job

public class ServiceAImpl extends ServiceA<Account> {
        @Override
        public DocSearchResponse<T> convertJson(String result){
         return mapper.readValue(result, new TypeReference<DocSearchResponse<T>>() {});
      }
    }
 }

I had a similar exception (but different problem) - java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.LinkedHashMap cannot be cast to org.bson.Document , and fortunately it's solved easier:

Instead of

List<Document> docs = obj.get("documents");
Document doc = docs.get(0)

which gives error on second line, One can use

List<Document> docs = obj.get("documents");
Document doc = new Document(docs.get(0));

The way I could mitigate the JSON Array to collection of LinkedHashMap objects problem was by using CollectionType rather than a TypeReference . This is what I did and worked:

public <T> List<T> jsonArrayToObjectList(String json, Class<T> tClass) throws IOException {
    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
    CollectionType listType = mapper.getTypeFactory().constructCollectionType(ArrayList.class, tClass);
    List<T> ts = mapper.readValue(json, listType);
    LOGGER.debug("class name: {}", ts.get(0).getClass().getName());
    return ts;
}

Using the TypeReference, I was still getting an ArrayList of LinkedHashMaps, i.e. does not work:

public <T> List<T> jsonArrayToObjectList(String json, Class<T> tClass) throws IOException {
    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
    List<T> ts = mapper.readValue(json, new TypeReference<List<T>>(){});
    LOGGER.debug("class name: {}", ts.get(0).getClass().getName());
    return ts;
}

Solve problem with two method parse common

1. Whith type is an object

public <T> T jsonToObject(String json, Class<T> type) {
        T target = null;
        try {
            target = objectMapper.readValue(json, type);
        } catch (Jsenter code hereonProcessingException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    
        return target;
    }

2. With type is collection wrap object

public <T> T jsonToObject(String json, TypeReference<T> type) {
    T target = null;
    try {
        target = objectMapper.readValue(json, type);
    } catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return target;
}