How to deserialize JSON if property might have a list of subobjects?

[jeserkin]

How to deserialize JSON if property might have a list of subobjects? i.e.

"heroes": [{
        "paragonLevel": 100,
        "seasonal": false,
        "name": "DrEugene",
        "id": 8275384,
        "level": 70,
        "hardcore": false,
        "gender": 0,
        "dead": false,
        "class": "witch-doctor",
        "last-updated": 1413061455
    }, {
        "paragonLevel": 100,
        "seasonal": false,
        "name": "Eugene",
        "id": 7968486,
        "level": 70,
        "hardcore": false,
        "gender": 0,
        "dead": false,
        "class": "monk",
        "last-updated": 1413074335
    }, {
        "paragonLevel": 100,
        "seasonal": false,
        "name": "BowmanEugene",
        "id": 15457030,
        "level": 70,
        "hardcore": false,
        "gender": 0,
        "dead": false,
        "class": "demon-hunter",
        "last-updated": 1413233724
    }, {
        "paragonLevel": 100,
        "seasonal": false,
        "name": "FullFury",
        "id": 32192193,
        "level": 70,
        "hardcore": false,
        "gender": 0,
        "dead": false,
        "class": "barbarian",
        "last-updated": 1413046645
    }]

What would be the right mapping in this case? Do I need to use @XmlList annotation or it doesn't work with JSON?

[xabbuh]

In your metadata, you can configure a property to be an array of other objects (see the available types here).

[jeserkin]

Okey. Will try that out. Thank you.

[jeserkin]

@xabbuh any chance, there is a way to say something like @Type("T<T>") or @Type("T<key, T>"), since I've got my own ArrayCollection implementation and I would like to use it as an array implementation? I've seen, that I can use normal array and ArrayCollection from Doctrine.

[xabbuh]

@jeserkin Not that I'm aware of it.

[goetas]

see http://jmsyst.com/libs/serializer/master/reference/annotations#type