I need to solve a learning task: read the contents of a file called users.json and write it out to the console. Then, I need to use this data to add users to Tomcat

JsonConfig.java

@Configuration
@ComponentScan(basePackageClasses = {ru.vniiem.mcc.initstateservice.models.UserModel.class })

public class JsonConfig {

    private static final Logger LOG = LogManager.getLogger(JsonConfig.class);

    @Autowired
    public UserModel[] usrModel;
            
    @Bean
    public void usersLog() {
        LOG.info(usrModel);
    }
}

UserModel.java

@Component
@PropertySource(value = "classpath:users.json", factory = JsonPropertySourceFactory.class)
@ConfigurationProperties
public class UserModel {

    @Value("${login}")
    private String login;

    @Value("${password}")
    private String password;

    public UserModel() {

    }

    public String getLogin() {
        return login;
    }

    public void setLogin(String login) {
        this.login = login;
    }

    public String getPassword() {
        return password;
    }

    public void setPassword(String password) {
        this.password = password;
    }
}

JsonPropertySourceFactory.java

public class JsonPropertySourceFactory
        implements PropertySourceFactory {
    
    @Override
    public PropertySource<?> createPropertySource(
            String name, EncodedResource resource)
            throws IOException {
        Map readValue = new ObjectMapper()
                .readValue(resource.getInputStream(), Map.class);
        return new MapPropertySource("json-property", readValue);
    }
}

users.json:

[
    { 
        "login": "aaa",
        "password": "aaa"
    },
    { 
        "login": "bb",
        "password": "bbb"
    }
]

When executing the code:

Caused by: com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.MismatchedInputException: Cannot deserialize value of type `java.util.LinkedHashMap<java.lang.Object,java.lang.Object>` from Array value (token `JsonToken.START_ARRAY`)
 at [Source: (ByteArrayInputStream); line: 1, column: 1]

I think I need to fix the factory, but I don’t understand what I need to do, because PropertySource accepts only Map and `java.util.Properties.

Update 1

I changed method:

public class JsonPropertySourceFactory
        implements PropertySourceFactory {

    private static final Logger LOG = LogManager.getLogger(JsonPropertySourceFactory.class);

    @Override
    public PropertySource<?> createPropertySource(
            String name, EncodedResource resource)
            throws IOException {
      
        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
         List<Map<String, String>> usersList = mapper.readValue(resource.getInputStream(), new TypeReference<List<Map<String, String>>>() {});

            Map<String, Object> usersMap = new HashMap<>();

            for (int i = 0; i < usersList.size(); i++) {
                Map<String, String> user = usersList.get(i);
                usersMap.put("user" + (i + 1), user); // Ключ в формате "user1", "user2" и т.д.
            }

            System.out.println(usersMap);
        return new MapPropertySource("json-property",  usersMap);
    }
}

On this stage I have a map that contains values, but I don’t know how I can manipulate with this. After my users.json is read, I need to work with this data and add it to Tomcat users for basic auth.