Ignore null fields when DEserializing JSON with Gson or Jackson

Question

I know there\'s lots of questions about skipping fields with a null value when serializing objects to JSON. I want to skip / ignore fields with null values when deserializing J

Answer 1

To skip using TypeAdapters, I'd make the POJO do a null check when the setter method is called.

Or look at

@JsonInclude(value = Include.NON_NULL)

The annotation needs to be at Class level, not method level.

@JsonInclude(Include.NON_NULL) //or Include.NON_EMPTY, if that fits your use case 
public static class RequestPojo {
    ...
}

For Deserialise you can use following at class level.

@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)