Fixing databinding issue when submitting empty strings from js client to a json-rpc service

git-svn-id: http://svn.us.apache.org/repos/asf/tuscany@1003856 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/sca-java-2.x/branches/sca-java-2.0-M5/modules/databinding-json/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/json/jackson/JSON2Object.java b/sca-java-2.x/branches/sca-java-2.0-M5/modules/databinding-json/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/json/jackson/JSON2Object.java
index 3620fc117f..ca28ec5833 100644
--- a/sca-java-2.x/branches/sca-java-2.0-M5/modules/databinding-json/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/json/jackson/JSON2Object.java
+++ b/sca-java-2.x/branches/sca-java-2.0-M5/modules/databinding-json/src/main/java/org/apache/tuscany/sca/databinding/json/jackson/JSON2Object.java
@@ -6,15 +6,15 @@
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 package org.apache.tuscany.sca.databinding.json.jackson;
@@ -49,7 +49,12 @@ public class JSON2Object implements PullTransformer<Object, Object> {
         try {
             JavaType javaType = TypeFactory.type(context.getTargetDataType().getGenericType());
             if (source instanceof String) {
-                return mapper.readValue((String)source, javaType);
+            	String sourceString = (String) source;
+            	if(sourceString.isEmpty()) {
+            		return sourceString;
+            	} else {
+            		return mapper.readValue((String)source, javaType);
+            	}
             } else if (source instanceof JsonNode) {
                 return mapper.treeToValue((JsonNode)source, context.getTargetDataType().getPhysical());
             } else if (source instanceof JsonParser) {