Ability to deserialize dictionary (HashMap) on top level

[EnterpriseJacksonBeansFrameworkCE]

I am trying to map json dictionary of objects with known structure to POJO under jackson control:

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;

public class GetListOfRecordsResponse {
   @JsonProperty("recordsCount")
   private Integer recordsCount; // Works always

   @JsonProperty("records")
   private Map<String, GeneratedRecordObject> records = new HashMap<>(); // Should also work without "records" (see second json)
}

It works properly for following (fake) json response:

{

  "recordsCount": 2,

  "records": {
     "-1": {
       ...
     },
    "1": {
        ...
     }
}

How can I modify GetListOfRecordsResponse (JsonProperty attribute? Using another attribute?) to allow parsing following real world JSON response

{

  "recordsCount": 2,

   "-1": {
      ...
   },
   "1": {
      ...
   }
}

Removing  records does not work properly: the deserialized records is empty.

How can I solve this problem?

[Tatu Saloranta]

I am not 100% sure, but one thing that might work is to simply force
ignoral of `recordsCount` entry, something like:

public class GetListOfRecordsResponse {
@JsonIgnoreProperties({ "recordsCount" })
@JsonProperty("records")
private Map<String, GeneratedRecordObject> records;
}

-+ Tatu +-