Deserializing JSON with element name containing hyphen

[strekdal]

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?

		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);
		}

[strekdal]

I found the answer after some more research:

In my User class I just had to enter

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

[Roy Clarkson]

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