I use nosqlunit-cassandra which use cassandra-unit as its engine, when I load/parser json data file with column value includ nested json object such as
{
"name" : "monitoring_service",
"replicationFactor" : 1,
"strategy" : "org.apache.cassandra.locator.SimpleStrategy",
"columnFamilies" : [{
"name" : "at_workreq",
"type" : "STANDARD",
"keyType" : "TimeUUIDType",
"comparatorType" : "UTF8Type",
"defaultColumnValueType" : "UTF8Type",
"rows" : [{
"key" : "989C6E5C-2CC1-11CA-A044-08002B1BB4F5",
"columns" : [{
"name": "WORKREQUEST",
"value": [{
"name" : "device",
"value" : "989C6E5C-2CC1-11CA-A044-08002B1BB4F6"
},
{
"name" : "timeuuid",
"value" : "989C6E5C-2CC1-11CA-A044-08002B1BB4F5"
},
{
"name" : "workReqTargetList".
"value": [{
"name" : "name",
"value" : "989C6E5C-2CC1-11CA-A044-08002B1BB4F6"
},
{
"name" : "cfgGUID",
"value" : "cfgGUID"
},
{
"name" : "fwGUID",
"value" : "firmwareGUID"
},
{
"name" : "cpu",
"value" : "90.0"
}]
}]
}]
}]
}]
},
cassandra-unit will throw such exception:
org.cassandraunit.dataset.ParseException: org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException: Can not deserialize instance of java.lang.String out of START_ARRAY token
at [Source: java.io.BufferedInputStream@5a20f443; line: 22, column: 32](through reference chain: org.cassandraunit.dataset.commons.ParsedKeyspace["columnFamilies"]->org.cassandraunit.dataset.commons.ParsedColumnFamily["rows"]->org.cassandraunit.dataset.commons.ParsedRow["columns"]->org.cassandraunit.dataset.commons.ParsedColumn["value"])
at org.cassandraunit.dataset.json.AbstractJsonDataSet.getParsedKeyspace(AbstractJsonDataSet.java:36)
at org.cassandraunit.dataset.commons.AbstractCommonsParserDataSet.getKeyspace(AbstractCommonsParserDataSet.java:33)
at org.cassandraunit.DataLoader.load(DataLoader.java:58)
at org.cassandraunit.DataLoader.load(DataLoader.java:54)
at com.cisco.onplus.das.server.dao.monitoring.MonitoringNoSQLDaoRemoteCassandraTest.test(MonitoringNoSQLDaoRemoteCassandraTest.java:345)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:45)
at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:15)
at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:42)
at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:20)
at com.lordofthejars.nosqlunit.core.AbstractNoSqlTestRule$1.evaluate(AbstractNoSqlTestRule.java:72)
at org.junit.rules.RunRules.evaluate(RunRules.java:18)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:263)
at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:68)
at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:47)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:231)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:60)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:229)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:50)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:222)
at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunBefores.evaluate(RunBefores.java:28)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:300)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:50)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:467)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197)
Caused by: org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException: Can not deserialize instance of java.lang.String out of START_ARRAY token
at [Source: java.io.BufferedInputStream@5a20f443; line: 22, column: 32](through reference chain: org.cassandraunit.dataset.commons.ParsedKeyspace["columnFamilies"]->org.cassandraunit.dataset.commons.ParsedColumnFamily["rows"]->org.cassandraunit.dataset.commons.ParsedRow["columns"]->org.cassandraunit.dataset.commons.ParsedColumn["value"])
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException.from(JsonMappingException.java:163)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.StdDeserializationContext.mappingException(StdDeserializationContext.java:219)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.std.StringDeserializer.deserialize(StringDeserializer.java:44)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.std.StringDeserializer.deserialize(StringDeserializer.java:13)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.SettableBeanProperty.deserialize(SettableBeanProperty.java:299)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.SettableBeanProperty$MethodProperty.deserializeAndSet(SettableBeanProperty.java:414)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserializeFromObject(BeanDeserializer.java:697)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserialize(BeanDeserializer.java:580)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.std.CollectionDeserializer.deserialize(CollectionDeserializer.java:217)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.std.CollectionDeserializer.deserialize(CollectionDeserializer.java:194)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.std.CollectionDeserializer.deserialize(CollectionDeserializer.java:30)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.SettableBeanProperty.deserialize(SettableBeanProperty.java:299)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.SettableBeanProperty$MethodProperty.deserializeAndSet(SettableBeanProperty.java:414)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserializeFromObject(BeanDeserializer.java:697)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserialize(BeanDeserializer.java:580)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.std.CollectionDeserializer.deserialize(CollectionDeserializer.java:217)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.std.CollectionDeserializer.deserialize(CollectionDeserializer.java:194)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.std.CollectionDeserializer.deserialize(CollectionDeserializer.java:30)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.SettableBeanProperty.deserialize(SettableBeanProperty.java:299)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.SettableBeanProperty$MethodProperty.deserializeAndSet(SettableBeanProperty.java:414)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserializeFromObject(BeanDeserializer.java:697)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserialize(BeanDeserializer.java:580)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.std.CollectionDeserializer.deserialize(CollectionDeserializer.java:217)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.std.CollectionDeserializer.deserialize(CollectionDeserializer.java:194)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.std.CollectionDeserializer.deserialize(CollectionDeserializer.java:30)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.SettableBeanProperty.deserialize(SettableBeanProperty.java:299)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.SettableBeanProperty$MethodProperty.deserializeAndSet(SettableBeanProperty.java:414)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserializeFromObject(BeanDeserializer.java:697)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserialize(BeanDeserializer.java:580)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper._readMapAndClose(ObjectMapper.java:2723)
at org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:1900)
at org.cassandraunit.dataset.json.AbstractJsonDataSet.getParsedKeyspace(AbstractJsonDataSet.java:32)
... 30 more
Many our column family will contains json object (event 3 layer nested) in their column value.