Reading and Writing Dynamic fields

[Kevin Nguyen]

Hello, currently I have a byte[] coming in that looks like

{

       field1: value1 // could be any type

       field2: "value2"

       field3: smt_else

}

where both the field names and the value types are dynamic (they are response from a database).

I have a set of all the field names (called names). Currently I'm using both JsonGenerator and JsonParser like so

while (jParser.nextToken() != JsonToken.END_OBJECT) {
          String dataFieldName = jParser.getCurrentName();
          if (names.contains(dataFieldName)) {
               jParser.nextToken();
               jsonGenerator.writeStringField(dataFieldName, jParser.getText());
          }
}

This works fine but my generated json object's field values are all Strings. I was wondering if there's a jsonGenerator.writeObject or a jParser.getObject that will automatically pick up on what types it should be reading or writing? I know there's already a writeObject and readObject but those are more for POJO classes which won't work for due to the dynamic nature of my response.