I have a yaml file, for example:

# this is the part I don't care about
config:
  key-1: val-1
other-config:
  lang: en
  year: 1906
# below is the only part I care about
interesting-setup:
  port: 1234
  validation: false
  parts:
    - on-start: backup
      on-stop: say-goodbye

Also I have a POJO class that is suitable for the interesting-setup part

public class InterestingSetup {
    int port;
    boolean validation;
    List<Map<String, String>> parts;
}

I want to load just the interesting-setup part (similarly as @ConfigurationProperties("interesting-setup") in Spring)

Currently I'm doing it like this:

Map<String, Object> yamlConfig = yaml.load(yamlFile);            # loading the whole file to Map with Object values
Object interestingObject = yamlConfig.get("interesting-setup");  # loading 'interesting-setup' part as an object
Map<String, Object> interestingMap = (Map<String, Object>);      # Casting object to Map<String, Object>
String yamlDumped = yaml.dump(interestingMap);                   # Serialization to String
InterestingSetup finalObject = yaml.load(yamlDumped);            # Getting final object from String

The crucial part is when I have an Object (Map<String, Object>) and want to cast it to my final class. To do that - I need to serialize it to String, so the process looks like this:

File -> Map<String, Object> -> Object -> Map<String, Object> -> String -> FinalClass and I'd like to avoid deserialization and again serialization of the same data.

So can I somehow use Yaml to map the Map<String, Object> to another class? I cannot see this in an API?