Converter works for RequestParameter but not for RequestBody field - spring-boot

Question

I have the following converter:
#Component
public class CountryEnumConverter implements Converter<String, CountryEnum> {
#Override
public CountryEnum convert(String country) {
CountryEnum countryEnum = CountryEnum.getBySign(country);
if (countryEnum == null) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException(country + " - Country is not supported!");
}
return countryEnum;
}
}
Registered it is invoked when used for RequestParam
#GetMapping(value = RestApiEndpoints.RESULTS, produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
public ResponseEntity<ResultDto> getResults(
Principal principal,
#RequestParam CountryEnum country) {
....
}
But this converter is never invoked when used for field in the RequstBody:
#GetMapping(value = RestApiEndpoints.RESULTS, produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
public ResponseEntity<ResultDto> getResults(
Principal principal,
#RequestBody MyBody myBody) {
....
}
public class MyBody {
#NotNull
private CountryEnum country;
public MyBody() {
}
public CountryEnum getCountry() {
return country;
}
public void setCountry(CountryEnum country) {
this.country = country;
}
}

Answer 1

Your existing org.springframework.core.convert.converter.Converter instance will only work with data submitted as form encoded data. With #RequestBody you are sending JSON data which will be deserialized using using the Jackson library.
You can then create an instance of com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.util.StdConverter<IN, OUT>
public class StringToCountryTypeConverter extends StdConverter<String, CountryType> {
#Override
public CountryType convert(String value) {
//convert and return
}
}
and then apply this on the target property:
public class MyBody {
#NotNull
#JsonDeserialize(converter = StringToCountryTypeConverter.class)
private CountryEnum country;
}
Given the similarity of the 2 interfaces I would expect that you could create one class to handle both scenarios:
public class StringToCountryTypeConverter extends StdConverter<String, CountryType>
implements org.springframework.core.convert.converter.Converter<String, CountryType> {
#Override
public CountryType convert(String value) {
//convert and return
}
}

Answer 2

I found out that if I add the following code to my CountryEnum will do the trick.
#JsonCreator
public static CountryEnum fromString(String value) {
CountryEnumConverter converter = new CountryEnumConverter();
return converter.convert(value);
}