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/* * Copyright 2014 Matt Bishop * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package com.mattjbishop.halapino; 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 java.io.IOException; import java.util.List; import java.util.Map; /** * Created by matt on 07/08/2014. * * serializes embedded resources */ public class EmbeddedSerializer extends JsonSerializer<Map<String, List<HALRepresentation>>> { public EmbeddedSerializer() { super(); } @Override public void serialize(Map<String, List<HALRepresentation>> embeddedResources, JsonGenerator jgen, SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException { if (embeddedResources != null) { jgen.writeStartObject(); writeOutResources(embeddedResources, jgen); jgen.writeEndObject(); } } private void writeOutResources(Map<String, List<HALRepresentation>> resources, JsonGenerator jgen) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException { for (Map.Entry<String, List<HALRepresentation>> entry : resources.entrySet()) { if (entry.getValue().size() == 1) // Write single resource { HALRepresentation resource = entry.getValue().iterator().next(); jgen.writeObjectField(entry.getKey(), resource); } else // write resource collection { jgen.writeArrayFieldStart(entry.getKey()); for (HALRepresentation resource : entry.getValue()) { jgen.writeObject(resource); } jgen.writeEndArray(); } } } }