Testing to see when the Locale deserializer works

Locale Mapping With Jackson Test

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Map;

import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerationException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;
import org.codehaus.jackson.type.TypeReference;
import org.junit.Test;

public class LocaleMappingWithJacksonTest {

	@Test
	public void testLocaleMapping() throws JsonGenerationException, JsonMappingException, IOException {
		ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();

		Map<String, Locale> writeMap = new HashMap<String, Locale>();
		writeMap.put("key", Locale.ENGLISH);

		String json = mapper.writeValueAsString(writeMap);

		HashMap<String, Locale> readMap = mapper.readValue(json,
				new TypeReference<HashMap<String, Locale>>() {
				});

		assertEquals(Locale.ENGLISH, readMap.get("key"));
	}
}