Using Jackson Deduction to Simplify Deserialisation
I find the documentation for Jackson is on the terse side, and dare I say obstructively self-referential. If you aren’t moved fully to tears by the Javadoc entries for JsonTypeInfo.As, you deserve an ACM award. In short: I need a helpful and up-to-date guide, so I’m writing one. What are we trying to do? We often want to vary the content of our JSON. It’s integral to the Envelope pattern for instance....