ObjectMapper can't deserialize without default constructor after upgrade to Spring Boot 2

Question

I have following DTOs:

@Value
public class PracticeResults {
    @NotNull
    Map wordAnswers;
}

@Value
public class ProfileMetaDto {

         


        

Answer 1

In case you have some final fields within your class and you would rather have Object creator to use specific constructor to deserialize your POJO along with @Data annotation, I suggest annotating the constructor with @JsonCreator(mode = JsonCreator.Mode.PROPERTIES) and concrete required constructor parameters with @JsonProperty(""). The example can be seen below:

package test.model;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonCreator;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import lombok.Data;

import java.util.Date;

@Data
public class KafkaEventPojo {
    private final String executionId;
    private final String folder;
    private final Date created_at;

    private Date updated_at;
    // ... other params
    
    /**
     * Instantiates a new Kafka event pojo.
     *
     * @param executionId the execution or flow id of the event lifecycle
     * @param folder      the folder to be retrieved
     */
    @JsonCreator(mode = JsonCreator.Mode.PROPERTIES)
    public KafkaEventPojo(@JsonProperty("executionId") String executionId, @JsonProperty("folder") String folder) {
        this(executionId, folder, new Date(System.currentTimeMillis()));
    }

    private KafkaEventPojo(String executionId, String folder, Date date) {
        this.executionId = executionId;
        this.folder = folder;

        this.created_at = date;
        this.updated_at = date;
    }
    
    // ... other logic
}