Deserializing JSON with element name containing hyphen

I am writing an Android client that is getting info about a user via a REST-call (JSON).
With Spring the result should be "automagically" returned as in instance of the User object I define, with fields having the same names as the elements in the JSON object.

But one of the elements I am receiving has the name "user-activation-code", and of course I can not create a field with this name in a Java class since Java do not accept hyphens.

How should this be handled?

Code:

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                try {
                        HttpBasicAuthentication bAuth = new HttpBasicAuthentication(username,password);
                        HttpHeaders requestHeaders = new HttpHeaders();
                        requestHeaders.set("Authorization", bAuth.getHeaderValue());
                        requestHeaders.setAccept(Collections.singletonList(new MediaType("application","json")));
                        HttpEntity<?> requestEntity = new HttpEntity<Object>(requestHeaders);
                        RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();

                        ResponseEntity<User> responseEntity = restTemplate.exchange(url, HttpMethod.GET, requestEntity, User.class);
                        User user= responseEntity.getBody();
                        return user;

                } catch (Exception e) {
                        Log.e(TAG, e.getMessage(), e);
                }

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I found the answer after some more research:

In my User class I just had to enter

Code:

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        @JsonProperty("user-activation-code")
                private String user_activation_code;

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Thanks for following up and letting us know how you resolved it!