In my PostgreSQL 9.3 + PostGIS 2.1.5 I have a table PLACE
with a column coordinates
of type Geometry(Point,26910)
.
I want to map it to Place
entity in my Spring Boot 1.1.9 web application, which uses Hibernate 4.0.0 + . Place
is available with a REST repository.
Unfortunately when I GET http://localhost:8080/mywebapp/places
I receive this strange JSON response:
{
"_embedded" : {
"venues" : [ {
"id" : 1,
"coordinates" : {
"envelope" : {
"envelope" : {
"envelope" : {
"envelope" : {
"envelope" : {
"envelope" : {
"envelope" : {
"envelope" : {
"envelope" : {
"envelope" : {
"envelope" : {
"envelope" : {
"envelope" : {
"envelope" : {
"envelope" : {
"envelope" : {
"envelope" : {
"envelope" : {
"envelope" : {
and so on indefinetely...! Spring log doesn't help..
I'm working with this application.properties:
spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.spatial.dialect.postgis.PostgisDialect
spring.jpa.show-sql=false
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://192.168.1.123/mywebapp
spring.datasource.username=postgres
spring.datasource.password=mypwd
spring.datasource.driverClassName=org.postgresql.Driver
First of all, is it ok to use database-platform
instead of database
?
And maybe do I have to use following settings instead of the above?
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql_postGIS://192.168.1.123/mywebapp
spring.datasource.driverClassName=org.postgis.DriverWrapper
Anyway my entity is something like this:
@Entity
public class Place {
@Id
public int id;
@Column(columnDefinition="Geometry")
@Type(type="org.hibernate.spatial.GeometryType") //"org.hibernatespatial.GeometryUserType" seems to be for older versions of Hibernate Spatial
public com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.Point coordinates;
}
My pom.xml contains this relevant part:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
<artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
<version>9.3-1102-jdbc41</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-spatial</artifactId>
<version>4.3</version><!-- compatible with Hibernate 4.3.x -->
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
<groupId>postgresql</groupId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
A bit strange configuration, I found it on the internet, it is the one that works best for now.
I hope that someone could help me with this mistery. :)
Finally I discovered that my configuration is ok and might be Jackson that cannot manage Point
data type correctly. So I customized its JSON serialization and deserialization:
add these annotations to our coordinates
field:
@JsonSerialize(using = PointToJsonSerializer.class)
@JsonDeserialize(using = JsonToPointDeserializer.class)
create such serializer:
import java.io.IOException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonSerializer;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializerProvider;
import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.Point;
public class PointToJsonSerializer extends JsonSerializer<Point> {
@Override
public void serialize(Point value, JsonGenerator jgen,
SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException,
JsonProcessingException {
String jsonValue = "null";
try
{
if(value != null) {
double lat = value.getY();
double lon = value.getX();
jsonValue = String.format("POINT (%s %s)", lat, lon);
}
}
catch(Exception e) {}
jgen.writeString(jsonValue);
}
}
create such deserializer:
import java.io.IOException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer;
import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.Coordinate;
import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.GeometryFactory;
import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.Point;
import com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.PrecisionModel;
public class JsonToPointDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<Point> {
private final static GeometryFactory geometryFactory = new GeometryFactory(new PrecisionModel(), 26910);
@Override
public Point deserialize(JsonParser jp, DeserializationContext ctxt)
throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
try {
String text = jp.getText();
if(text == null || text.length() <= 0)
return null;
String[] coordinates = text.replaceFirst("POINT ?\\(", "").replaceFirst("\\)", "").split(" ");
double lat = Double.parseDouble(coordinates[0]);
double lon = Double.parseDouble(coordinates[1]);
Point point = geometryFactory.createPoint(new Coordinate(lat, lon));
return point;
}
catch(Exception e){
return null;
}
}
}
Maybe you can also use this serializer and this deserializer, available here.