Allow fields to be json literals

In the jclouds project, we often encounter semi-structured data.  For example, 
the structure is known to a certain depth, and after which we'd like to defer 
parsing to an extension.

For example, a json schema could be known to have attributes, which are not 
typed.  We'd like to defer parsing of these attributes.

For example, I'd like to parse the following:

{
    "name": "elmo",
    "attributes": {
        "custom/1": {
            "favorite": "berries"
        },
        "custom/2": 1000
    }
}

into a class like this:

class Thing {
    String name;
    Map<String, String> attributes; 
}

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [e-mail] on 15 May 2011 at 12:28

[GoogleCodeExporter]

here's a valid workaroud:

https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/js
on/internal/NullHackJsonLiteralAdapter.java
https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/blob/master/core/src/test/java/org/jclouds/js
on/internal/NullHackJsonLiteralAdapterTest.java

Thanks tons for the help!

Original comment by [e-mail] on 2 Jan 2012 at 10:51

[GoogleCodeExporter]

okie.  just sent offline mail. thx

Original comment by [e-mail] on 2 Jan 2012 at 5:51