From a640781deb48ee9ed29a49e244571f8b873d3eca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hammy <sgoudham@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 02:06:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add method to support retrieving objects as strings

---
 src/main/java/me/goudham/APIMapper.java | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/main/java/me/goudham/APIMapper.java b/src/main/java/me/goudham/APIMapper.java
index e7d460d..a78ade4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/me/goudham/APIMapper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/me/goudham/APIMapper.java
@@ -22,6 +22,14 @@ class APIMapper {
         objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
     }
 
+    String getValueAsString(Object obj) throws APIMapperException {
+        try {
+            return objectMapper.writeValueAsString(obj);
+        } catch (JsonProcessingException jpe) {
+            throw new APIMapperException(jpe.getMessage(), jpe);
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Using the given {@code model}, {@link ObjectMapper} deserializes the given Json
      * into a Java POJO