使用JSON将嵌套对象发布到Spring MVC控制器

Question

我有一个定义了POST处理程序的控制器，如下所示：

@RequestMapping(value="/ajax/saveVendor.do", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public @ResponseBody AjaxResponse saveVendor( @Valid UIVendor vendor,
                                              BindingResult result,
                                              Locale currentLocale )

以JSON格式查看时，UIVendor对象如下所示：

var vendor = 
{
  vendorId: 123,
  vendorName: "ABC Company",
  emails : [
             { emailAddress: "[e-mail]", flags: 2 },
             { emailAddress: "[e-mail]", flags: 3 }
           ]
}

UIVendor bean具有一个ArrayList类型的名为“ Emails”的字段，带有适当的设置器和获取器（getEmails /
setEmails）。NotificationEmail对象也具有适当的公共设置器/获取器。

当我尝试使用以下代码发布对象时：

$.post("ajax/saveVendor.do", $.param(vendor), saveEntityCallback, "json" );

我在日志中收到此错误：

Invalid property 'emails[0][emailAddress]' of bean class [beans.UIVendor]: Property referenced in indexed property path 'emails[0][emailAddress]' is neither an array nor a List nor a Map; returned value was [[e-mail]]

我如何正确地将这样的嵌套对象发布到Spring控制器，并将其正确反序列化为适当的对象结构。

UPDATE
根据Bohzo的请求，这是UIVendor类的内容。此类包装由Web服务生成的Bean类，将VendorAttributes公开为单独的字段：

package com.mycompany.beans;

import java.util.*;
import org.apache.commons.lang.*;
import com.mycompany.domain.Vendor;
import com.mycompany.domain.VendorAttributes;
import org.apache.commons.logging.*;
import org.codehaus.jackson.annotate.JsonIgnore;

public class UIVendor
{
  private final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog( this.getClass() );
  private Vendor vendor;
  private boolean ftpFlag;
  private String ftpHost;
  private String ftpPath;
  private String ftpUser;
  private String ftpPassword; 
  private List<UINotificationEmail> emails = null;

  public UIVendor() { this( new Vendor() ); }
  public UIVendor( Vendor vendor )
  {
    this.vendor = vendor;
    loadVendorAttributes();
  }

  private void loadVendorAttributes()
  {
    this.ftpFlag = false;
    this.ftpHost = this.ftpPassword = this.ftpPath = this.ftpUser = "";
    this.emails = null;

    for ( VendorAttributes a : this.vendor.getVendorAttributes() )
    {
      String key = a.getVendorFakey();
      String value = a.getVendorFaValue();
      int flags = a.getFlags();

      if ( StringUtils.isBlank(key) || StringUtils.isBlank(value) ) continue;

      if ( key.equals( "ftpFlag" ) )
      {
        this.ftpFlag = BooleanUtils.toBoolean( value );
      }
      else if ( key.equals( "ftpHost" ) )
      {
        this.ftpHost = value;
      }
      else if ( key.equals("ftpPath") )
      {
        this.ftpPath = value;
      }
      else if ( key.equals("ftpUser") )
      {
        this.ftpUser = value;
      }
      else if ( key.equals("ftpPassword") )
      {
        this.ftpPassword = value;
      }
      else if ( key.equals("email") )
      {
        UINotificationEmail email = new UINotificationEmail(value, flags);
        this.getEmails().add( email );
      }
    }
  }

  private void saveVendorAttributes()
  {
    int id = this.vendor.getVendorId();
    List<VendorAttributes> attrs = this.vendor.getVendorAttributes();
    attrs.clear();

    if ( this.ftpFlag )
    {      
      VendorAttributes flag = new VendorAttributes();
      flag.setVendorId( id );
      flag.setStatus( "A" );
      flag.setVendorFakey( "ftpFlag" );
      flag.setVendorFaValue( BooleanUtils.toStringTrueFalse( this.ftpFlag ) );
      attrs.add( flag );

      if ( StringUtils.isNotBlank( this.ftpHost ) )
      {
        VendorAttributes host = new VendorAttributes();
        host.setVendorId( id );
        host.setStatus( "A" );
        host.setVendorFakey( "ftpHost" );
        host.setVendorFaValue( this.ftpHost );
        attrs.add( host );

        if ( StringUtils.isNotBlank( this.ftpPath ) )
        {
          VendorAttributes path = new VendorAttributes();
          path.setVendorId( id );
          path.setStatus( "A" );
          path.setVendorFakey( "ftpPath" );
          path.setVendorFaValue( this.ftpPath );
          attrs.add( path );
        }

        if ( StringUtils.isNotBlank( this.ftpUser ) )
        {
          VendorAttributes user = new VendorAttributes();
          user.setVendorId( id );
          user.setStatus( "A" );
          user.setVendorFakey( "ftpUser" );
          user.setVendorFaValue( this.ftpUser );
          attrs.add( user );
        }

        if ( StringUtils.isNotBlank( this.ftpPassword ) )
        {
          VendorAttributes password = new VendorAttributes();
          password.setVendorId( id );
          password.setStatus( "A" );
          password.setVendorFakey( "ftpPassword" );
          password.setVendorFaValue( this.ftpPassword ); 
          attrs.add( password );
        }
      }      
    }

    for ( UINotificationEmail e : this.getEmails() )
    {
      logger.debug("Adding email " + e );
      VendorAttributes email = new VendorAttributes();
      email.setStatus( "A" );
      email.setVendorFakey( "email" );
      email.setVendorFaValue( e.getEmailAddress() );
      email.setFlags( e.getFlags() );
      email.setVendorId( id );
      attrs.add( email );
    }
  }

  @JsonIgnore
  public Vendor getVendor()
  {
    saveVendorAttributes();
    return this.vendor;
  }

  public int getVendorId()
  {
    return this.vendor.getVendorId();
  }
  public void setVendorId( int vendorId )
  {
    this.vendor.setVendorId( vendorId );
  }

  public String getVendorType()
  {
    return this.vendor.getVendorType();
  }
  public void setVendorType( String vendorType )
  {
    this.vendor.setVendorType( vendorType );
  }

  public String getVendorName()
  {
    return this.vendor.getVendorName();
  }
  public void setVendorName( String vendorName )
  {
    this.vendor.setVendorName( vendorName );
  }

  public String getStatus()
  {
    return this.vendor.getStatus();
  }
  public void setStatus( String status )
  {
    this.vendor.setStatus( status );
  }

  public boolean isFtpFlag()
  {
    return this.ftpFlag;
  }
  public void setFtpFlag( boolean ftpFlag )
  {
    this.ftpFlag = ftpFlag;
  }

  public String getFtpHost()
  {
    return this.ftpHost;
  }
  public void setFtpHost( String ftpHost )
  {
    this.ftpHost = ftpHost;
  }

  public String getFtpPath()
  {
    return this.ftpPath;
  }
  public void setFtpPath( String ftpPath )
  {
    this.ftpPath = ftpPath;
  }

  public String getFtpUser()
  {
    return this.ftpUser;
  }
  public void setFtpUser( String ftpUser )
  {
    this.ftpUser = ftpUser;
  }

  public String getFtpPassword()
  {
    return this.ftpPassword;
  }
  public void setFtpPassword( String ftpPassword )
  {
    this.ftpPassword = ftpPassword;
  }

  public List<UINotificationEmail> getEmails()
  {
    if ( this.emails == null )
    {
      this.emails = new ArrayList<UINotificationEmail>();
    }
    return emails;
  }

  public void setEmails(List<UINotificationEmail> emails)
  {
    this.emails = emails;
  }
}

更新2 这是杰克逊的输出：

{
  "vendorName":"MAIL",
  "vendorId":45,
  "emails":
  [
    {
      "emailAddress":"dfg",
      "success":false,
      "failure":false,
      "flags":0
    }
  ],
  "vendorType":"DFG",
  "ftpFlag":true,
  "ftpHost":"kdsfjng",
  "ftpPath":"dsfg",
  "ftpUser":"sdfg",
  "ftpPassword":"sdfg",
  "status":"A"
}

这是我在POST上返回的对象的结构：

{
  "vendorId":"45",
  "vendorName":"MAIL",
  "vendorType":"DFG",
  "ftpFlag":true,
  "ftpHost":"kdsfjng",
  "ftpUser":"sdfg",
  "ftpPath":"dsfg",
  "ftpPassword":"sdfg",
  "status":"A",
  "emails": 
            [
              {
                "success":"false",
                "failure":"false",
                "emailAddress":"dfg"
              },
              {
                "success":"true",
                "failure":"true",
                "emailAddress":"[e-mail]"
              }
            ]
}

我也尝试过使用来自www.json.org的JSON库进行序列化，其结果与您在上面看到的完全一样。但是，当我发布该数据时，传递给控制器​​的UIVendor对象中的所有字段均为空（尽管该对象不是）。

Answer 1

更新： 从Spring
3.1开始，可以在@RequestBody控制器方法参数中使用@Valid。

@RequestMapping(value="/ajax/saveVendor.do", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public @ResponseBody AjaxResponse saveVendor( @Valid @RequestBody UIVendor vendor,
                                              BindingResult result,
                                              Locale currentLocale )

经过多次尝试和错误，我终于尽我所能找出问题所在。使用以下控制器方法签名时：

@RequestMapping(value="/ajax/saveVendor.do", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public @ResponseBody AjaxResponse saveVendor( @Valid UIVendor vendor,
                                              BindingResult result,
                                              Locale currentLocale )

客户端脚本必须以后数据（通常为“ application / x-www-form-urlencoded”）格式（即field = value＆field2
= value2）传递对象中的字段。这是在jQuery中完成的，如下所示：

$.post( "mycontroller.do", $.param(object), callback, "json" )

对于没有子对象或集合的简单POJO对象，这很好用，但是一旦您对要传递的对象引入了极大的复杂性，Spring的映射逻辑将无法识别jQuery用于序列化对象数据的符号：

object[0][field]

我解决此问题的方法是将控制器中的方法签名更改为：

@RequestMapping(value="/ajax/saveVendor.do", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public @ResponseBody AjaxResponse saveVendor( @RequestBody UIVendor vendor,
                                              Locale currentLocale )

并将呼叫从客户端更改为：

    $.ajax(
            {
              url:"ajax/mycontroller.do", 
              type: "POST", 
              data: JSON.stringify( objecdt ), 
              success: callback, 
              dataType: "json",
              contentType: "application/json"
            } );

这需要使用JSON javascript库。它还将contentType强制为“ application /
json”，这是Spring在使用@RequestBody批注时所期望的，并将对象序列化为Jackson可以反序列化为有效对象结构的格式。

唯一的副作用是，现在我必须在controller方法内部处理自己的对象验证，但这相对简单：

BindingResult result = new BeanPropertyBindingResult( object, "MyObject" );
Validator validator = new MyObjectValidator();
validator.validate( object, result );

如果有人对这个过程有任何改进的建议，我非常高兴。