From 0b416cfcdaa2138900fd2b2de1fa19156f6b2386 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "francesco.mangiacrapa" <francesco.mangiacrapa@isti.cnr.it>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 16:54:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] added convertAcceptStringAsNull

---
 .../gcube/application/cms/serialization/Serialization.java | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cms-plugin-framework/src/main/java/org/gcube/application/cms/serialization/Serialization.java b/cms-plugin-framework/src/main/java/org/gcube/application/cms/serialization/Serialization.java
index 04fde40..2aff895 100644
--- a/cms-plugin-framework/src/main/java/org/gcube/application/cms/serialization/Serialization.java
+++ b/cms-plugin-framework/src/main/java/org/gcube/application/cms/serialization/Serialization.java
@@ -87,6 +87,13 @@ public class Serialization {
 		public static final <T> T convert(Object d,Class<T> clazz){
 			return mapper.convertValue(d,clazz);
 		}
+		
+		public static final <T> T convertAcceptStringAsNull(Object d,Class<T> clazz){
+			mapper.configure(DeserializationFeature.ACCEPT_EMPTY_STRING_AS_NULL_OBJECT,true);
+			T converted = mapper.convertValue(d,clazz);
+			mapper.configure(DeserializationFeature.ACCEPT_EMPTY_STRING_AS_NULL_OBJECT,false);
+			return converted;
+		}
 
 		public static final Document asDocument(Object obj) throws JsonProcessingException {
 			return Document.parse(mapper.writeValueAsString(obj));