How can I pass an array data to Apache Wink controller using json

Question

I'm writing a apache wink controller which contains the following API:

@DELETE
@Consumes(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
@Path("/users")
public void deleteUsers(List<String> ids) {
    // Delete users here.
    ...
}

I was able to pass the parameter by using @QueryParam("ids") annotation, but this may exceed the URL length limitation when the array is too long. Thus, I want to pass a json object to the controller and I'm wondering 1) what kind of format should the json object be and 2) how can I receive the json object in the server side ?

PS I'm using Jackson in the wink side as the json parser.

Thanks in advance!

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I've already tried to pass the following json to wink, but it doesn't seem to work:

{
   ids: ['id1', 'id2', ...]
}

Answer 1

First is to create an ObjectMapper instance and then readValue() method with the value type specified in the argument. You'll get the mapped object.

For example:

mapper = new ObjectMapper();
idObject = mapper.readValue(jsonpayload.getBytes(), mapClass);

Also a valid JSON would look like this:

{
    "ids" : ["id1", "id2"]
}