I have a simple data service :
@GET
public Data getData(@QueryParam("id") Long id) {
Data data = dataService.getData(id);
return data;
}
And a matching DataSerializer
that implements JsonSerializer<Data>
:
The DataSerializer
is registered to Jackson via :
simpleModule.addSerializer(Data.class , dataSerializer);
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.registerModule(simpleModule);
It works well.
But today , I want to add another Locale
parameter , and hope the DataSerializer
to output correspondent content :
@GET
public Data getData(@QueryParam("id") Long id , @QueryParam("locale") Locale locale)
The 'Data
' itself contains various locale variations , and I hope to get the assigned locale output.
But when I get the locale
from the parameter , I don't know how to pass the locale
value to the DataSerializer
…
Is there anyway to achieve this ?
Except this solution :
Data data = dataService.getData(id.get() , locale);
which is not what I want.
It seems ThreadLocal
is the only way to achieve this , but I feel that is ugly. Any other feasible solutions ?
Thanks.
Environments : dropwizard-0.7.0-rc2 , jackson-core:jar:2.3.1
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reply to @andrei-i :
Because my data itself already contains various locale versions. for example :
Data helloData = dataService.get("hello");
helloData.getName(Locale.English) == "Hello";
helloData.getName(Locale.France) == "Bonjour";
helloData.getName(Locale.Germany) == "Hallo";
I want to directly pass the locale from URL to JsonSerializer , to get one version of the data presentation.
And there 'may' be other version (not just locale) , so , inheriting Data mixing Locale is not considered.
I know that this is not a new question but here is what I came up with facing the similar problem:
created custom annotation:
@Target({ ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.METHOD })
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface JsonLocalizable {
public String localizationKey();
}
Jackson serializer:
public class LocalizingSerializer extends StdSerializer<String> implements ContextualSerializer {
private String localizationKey;
public LocalizingSerializer() {
super(String.class);
}
public LocalizingSerializer(String key) {
super(String.class);
this.localizationKey = key;
}
@Override
public void serialize(String value, JsonGenerator jgen, SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException, JsonGenerationException {
String localizedValue = //.... get the value using localizationKey
jgen.writeString(localizedValue);
}
@Override
public JsonSerializer<?> createContextual(SerializerProvider prov, BeanProperty property) throws JsonMappingException {
String key = null;
JsonLocalizable ann = null;
if (property != null) {
ann = property.getAnnotation(JsonLocalizable.class);
}
if (ann != null) {
key = ann.localizationKey();
}
//if key== null??
return new LocalizingSerializer(key);
}
}
Annotate the field you want to localize:
public class TestClass {
@JsonSerialize(using = LocalizingSerializer.class)
@JsonLocalizable(localizationKey = "my.key")
private String field;
public String getField() {
return this.field;
}
public void setField(String field) {
this.field = field;
}
}