I am trying to ignore json outer wrapper for which I tried multiple json annotations like @JsonTypeInfo etc but nothing worked so far.

my json looks like:

 "header":{},"body":[{"data":{"emp":[{"name":"abc","address":""},{"name":"xyz","address":""}]}}],"statusCodeValue":200,"statusCode":"OK"}

I want to ignore the wrapping “data” and “emp” and only get the List

My java classes look like:

@Data
@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown=true)
public class Employee{
String name;
String address;
}


@Data
@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown=true)
public class Employees{
@JsonProperty("emp")
List<Employee> employees;

}

I am trying to read value with the below:

Map<String ,?> body=restTemplateResponse.getBody();
Object response=body.get("body");
ObjectMapper mapper=new ObjectMapper();
mapper.convertValue(response, new TypedReference<>(){});