Java – how to manually map enumeration fields in jax-rs

How to map a simple JSON object {"status": "successful"} to Java enum in jax-rs automatically?

public enum Status {
    SUCESSFUL ("successful"),ERROR ("error");

    private String status;

    private Status(String status) {
        this.status = status;
    }
}

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Solution

The following JAXB annotations should do this (I use jettison for testing, but I haven't tried other providers):

@XmlType(name = "status")
@XmlEnum
public enum Status {
    @XmlEnumValue(value = "successful")
    SUCESSFUL,@XmlEnumValue(value = "error")
    ERROR;
}