core/api/src/main/java/org/onosproject/rest/AbstractWebResource.java

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 * Copyright 2014-2015 Open Networking Laboratory
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package org.onosproject.rest;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
import org.onlab.rest.BaseResource;
import org.onosproject.codec.CodecContext;
import org.onosproject.codec.CodecService;
import org.onosproject.codec.JsonCodec;

/**
 * Abstract REST resource.
 */
public class AbstractWebResource extends BaseResource implements CodecContext {

    @Override
    public ObjectMapper mapper() {
        return new ObjectMapper();
    }

    /**
     * Returns the JSON codec for the specified entity class.
     *
     * @param entityClass entity class
     * @param <T>         entity type
     * @return JSON codec
     */
    public <T> JsonCodec<T> codec(Class<T> entityClass) {
        return get(CodecService.class).getCodec(entityClass);
    }

    /**
     * Returns JSON object wrapping the array encoding of the specified
     * collection of items.
     *
     * @param codecClass codec item class
     * @param field      field holding the array
     * @param items      collection of items to be encoded into array
     * @param <T>        item type
     * @return JSON object
     */
    protected <T> ObjectNode encodeArray(Class<T> codecClass, String field,
                                         Iterable<T> items) {
        ObjectNode result = mapper().createObjectNode();
        result.set(field, codec(codecClass).encode(items, this));
        return result;
    }

}