[Converter] Map -> Object with generics

[David Leangen]

Hi!

I’m having a bit of trouble, so am fishing for ideas. Maybe there is a simple 
answer.

If I convert from Map—>DTO, and the DTO has in its tree a generic field, how 
can I tell the converter the correct type so that it does not get converted as 
a Map?

Example:

BottomDTO {
  public String a;
  public String b;

MiddleDTO<T> {
  public T bottom;
}

TopDTO<T> {
  public MiddleDTO<T> middle;
}

If I just do this, then Map is used for the value of bottom, which will cause a 
ClassCastException sometime later during execution:

  // Convert from Map to TopDTO<BottomDTO>
  converter.convert(someMap).to(TopDTO.class);


Thanks!
=David