package eu.equalparts.cardbase.utils;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationFeature;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

/**
 * This class simply holds an {@code ObjectMapper} to be used whenever JSON must be parsed.
 * In the future it may be removed in favour of individual mappers for each function.
 * 
 * @author Eduardo Pedroni
 */
public final class JSON {
	
	/**
	 * The Jackson {@code ObjectMapper} which parses fetched JSON files.
	 */
	public static final ObjectMapper mapper = createMapper();

	/**
	 * Private constructor, this class is not to be instantiated.
	 */
	private JSON() {}
	
	/**
	 * Instantiate and configure Jackson mapper statically. 
	 * 
	 * @return the {@code ObjectMapper}, ready to use.
	 */
	private static ObjectMapper createMapper() {
		ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
		// classes don't necessarily use all json fields
		objectMapper.configure(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false);
		return objectMapper;
	}
}