java - Jackson Databinding -

we using api communicate between our services. bind data use following dependencies:

        <dependency>         <groupid>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupid>         <artifactid>jackson-core</artifactid>         <version>2.6.5</version>     </dependency>      <dependency>         <groupid>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupid>         <artifactid>jackson-databind</artifactid>         <version>2.6.0</version>     </dependency>      <dependency>         <groupid>com.fasterxml</groupid>         <artifactid>jackson-xml-databind</artifactid>         <version>0.6.2</version>     </dependency> 

the old way api offered list me :

country: [    "nl",    "be",    "es",    "gb",          ], 

normally bind pojos followed: e.g.

@jsonproperty("country") private list<string> countries; 

which not causing problems.

now our api being updated , data showed in way example:

registeredin: {      datatype: "ss",      item: {         nl: "nl",         be: "be",         es: "es",         gb: "gb"         }     }, 

i need part of information of object:

   item: {         nl: "nl",         be: "be",         es: "es",         gb: "gb"         } 

the problem list isn't string list anymore has become list objects has countrycode in it. there easy way still string values list? doing way did annotations?

try using map<string, string> instead of list<string>. seems bit redundant use same value key map, should serialize way want to.