add support for plain EntityId<?> in web

src/main/java/it/aboutbits/springboot/toolbox/autoconfiguration/web/CustomTypeConfiguration.java

@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
 
 import it.aboutbits.springboot.toolbox.jackson.CustomTypeDeserializer;
 import it.aboutbits.springboot.toolbox.jackson.CustomTypeSerializer;
+import it.aboutbits.springboot.toolbox.jackson.EntityIdDeserializer;
 import it.aboutbits.springboot.toolbox.type.CustomType;
+import it.aboutbits.springboot.toolbox.type.identity.EntityId;
 import it.aboutbits.springboot.toolbox.web.CustomTypePropertyEditor;
+import it.aboutbits.springboot.toolbox.web.EntityIdPropertyEditor;
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jackson.Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilderCustomizer;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
@@ -29,6 +32,7 @@ public void initBinder(WebDataBinder binder) {
             for (var clazz : types) {
                 binder.registerCustomEditor(clazz, new CustomTypePropertyEditor<>(clazz));
             }
+            binder.registerCustomEditor(EntityId.class, new EntityIdPropertyEditor());
         }
     }
 
@@ -41,8 +45,11 @@ public Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilderCustomizer jsonCustomizer(CustomTypeScanner co
                 .toList()
                 .toArray(new CustomTypeDeserializer[types.size()]);
 
+
         return builder -> builder
                 .serializers(new CustomTypeSerializer())
-                .deserializers(deserializers);
+                .deserializers(deserializers)
+                .deserializerByType(EntityId.class, new EntityIdDeserializer());
     }
+
 }

src/main/java/it/aboutbits/springboot/toolbox/jackson/EntityIdDeserializer.java

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+package it.aboutbits.springboot.toolbox.jackson;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer;
+import it.aboutbits.springboot.toolbox.type.identity.EntityId;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+public class EntityIdDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer<EntityId<?>> {
+    /*
+    This is needed because EntityId is just the interface. Jackson does not know what implementation to take.
+    So we use this generic implementation.
+     */
+    @Override
+    public EntityId<?> deserialize(
+            JsonParser jsonParser,
+            DeserializationContext deserializationContext
+    ) throws IOException {
+        // We need to do this because due to type erasure we don't actually know the wrapped type. So we try a number first and fallback to a string.
+        try {
+            var theValue = jsonParser.getLongValue();
+            return new EntityId<Long>() {
+                @Override
+                public Long value() {
+                    return theValue;
+                }
+
+                @Override
+                public String toString() {
+                    return String.valueOf(value());
+                }
+            };
+        } catch (JsonParseException e) {
+            var theValue = jsonParser.getValueAsString();
+            return new EntityId<String>() {
+                @Override
+                public String value() {
+                    return theValue;
+                }
+
+                @Override
+                public String toString() {
+                    return theValue;
+                }
+            };
+        }
+    }
+}

src/main/java/it/aboutbits/springboot/toolbox/web/EntityIdPropertyEditor.java

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+package it.aboutbits.springboot.toolbox.web;
+
+import it.aboutbits.springboot.toolbox.type.identity.EntityId;
+import org.springframework.lang.Nullable;
+
+import java.beans.PropertyEditorSupport;
+
+public final class EntityIdPropertyEditor extends PropertyEditorSupport {
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    @Override
+    @Nullable
+    public String getAsText() {
+        var value = (EntityId<?>) getValue();
+
+        return value == null ? null : value.toString();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setAsText(String text) throws IllegalArgumentException {
+        EntityId<?> value = null;
+        try {
+            var theValue = Long.parseLong(text);
+            value = new EntityId<Long>() {
+                @Override
+                public Long value() {
+                    return theValue;
+                }
+
+                @Override
+                public String toString() {
+                    return String.valueOf(value());
+                }
+            };
+        } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+            value = new EntityId<String>() {
+                @Override
+                public String value() {
+                    return text;
+                }
+
+                @Override
+                public String toString() {
+                    return value();
+                }
+            };
+        }
+
+        setValue(
+                value
+        );
+    }
+}