Jackson 3rd Party Class With No Default Constructor

Question

I\'m trying to use Jackson to read/write my POJOs to/from Json. As of right now, I\'ve got it configured and working for my classes, except for a 3rd party class. When tryin

Answer 1

You could make use of Jackson's Mix-Ins feature, coupled with the Creator feature. The Mix-Ins feature alleviates the need to annotate the original third-party code, and the Creator feature provides a mechanism for custom instance creation.

For yet more customization, it's not too involved to write a custom deserializer.