Cannot populate POJO with JSON using Jackson -

i'm trying populate pojo json doesn't match in way , having trouble getting resolved. can't change json since external service maybe able modify pojo if needed.

below example json:

{"sparse":[{"pixid":1,"pixname":"swe","description":"unknown"},{"pixid":2,"pixname":"pumnw","description":"power supplement"}],"status":0,"message":null} 

below pojo:

@jsonignoreproperties(ignoreunknown = true) public class pix {     @jsonproperty("description")     private string description;     @jsonproperty("pixid")     private int pixid;     @jsonproperty("pixname")     private string pixname;       // getters , setters } 

and here code conversion:

objectmapper om =  new objectmapper(); om.configure(deserializationconfig.feature.accept_single_value_as_array, true); om.configure(deserializationconfig.feature.fail_on_unknown_properties, false); list<pix> pixlist = om.readvalue(pixjson, new typereference<list<pix>>() {}); 

the pixlist contains 1 element (should 2 using json above) , properties have not been populated. i'm using jackson 1.9.9. ideas on how work? tia.

you have create new pojo class main object contains list<pix>. looks this:

class root {      @jsonproperty("status")     private int status;      @jsonproperty("message")     private string message;      @jsonproperty("sparse")     private list<pix> sparse;      //getters/setters } 

and deserialization code looks this:

objectmapper mapper = new objectmapper(); mapper.configure(deserializationfeature.accept_single_value_as_array, true); mapper.configure(deserializationfeature.fail_on_unknown_properties, false);  list<pix> pixlist = mapper.readvalue(pixjson, root.class).getsparse();