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Type Erasure and Deserializing JSON Objects
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gistfile1.java
public static class ProfileResponse extends ODataListValueDTO<UserProfileDTO> {}
// I was having a lot of difficulty getting Jackson to appropriately deserialize a complex
// data type due to type erasure. By creating an "as needed" class, I can avoid the type
// erasure problem and get an ODataListValueDTO<UserProfileDTO> as a result
ResponseEntity<ProfileResponse> profileResponse = template.exchange(
"http://localhost:8080/dummy",
HttpMethod.POST,
new HttpEntity<UserProfileDTO>(toSend, headers),
ProfileResponse.class);
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