TestUtils.java

package com.feisystems.polrep.web.v1;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;

import org.springframework.http.MediaType;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

public class TestUtils {

	public static final MediaType APPLICATION_JSON_UTF8 = new MediaType(
			MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON.getType(),
			MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON.getSubtype(), Charset.forName("utf8"));

	public static byte[] convertObjectToJsonBytes(Object object)
			throws IOException {
		final ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
		mapper.setSerializationInclusion(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL);
		return mapper.writeValueAsBytes(object);
	}

}