I am working on a Spring Boot application that allows users to upload logic expression to the server. A web app allows them to visually create the expression. The result of the web app looks something like this
{
"id": "someId",
"fullexpression": {
"left": "a",
"operator": "AND",
"right": {
"left": {
"left": "x",
"operator": "AND",
"right": "y",
}
"operator": "OR",
"right": "z"
}
}
}
The above example describes the expression a AND ((x AND y) OR z).
I've found a Baeldung article that says:
the type we annotate with the @RequestBody annotation must correspond to the JSON sent from our client-side controller
If I understood the article correctly, it's not possible to do this directly. What is the best way to build a Spring Boot rest controller that allows a RequestBody to be nested like this? Of course I could always turn the JSON into a string on the client's side, and parse it in the rest controller but that doesn't really seem elegant.
Define the RequestBody parameter as a JsonNode:
public <something> myService(@RequestBody JsonNode jsonNode) {}