[CAUSEWAY-1177] Deserialization using RO applib fails in Jackson library

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: core-1.8.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.9.0
• Component/s: Core
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Daniel Keir Haywood
• Created: 25/Jul/15 05:33
• Updated: 01/Sep/15 19:49
• Resolved: 25/Jul/15 06:03

Description

It would appear that (as a result of an upgrade to Jackson, in 1.8.0 I think) that it is no longer possible to deserialize directly into our representation classes (eg HomeRepresentation, VersionRepresentation).

Each of these expose a constructor accepting a single org.codehaus.jackson.JsonNode, and Jackson now says it's looking for a default constructor.

See http://markmail.org/message/qi23ssz63m7rr57t.

One possible fix is to deserialize into a JsonNode, and then manually instantiate the representation class manually.