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Jackson 3 series companion code

37 runnable examples covering the eight feature posts on ankurm.com, verified
against Jackson 3.2.1 on Temurin 21.0.5. Every output committed under docs/ was
produced by run-all.sh.

Also documents 11 places where the published snippets do not compile or do not
behave as printed against a real Jackson 3 build - most notably that
writeValueAsString(List<Base>) silently drops the polymorphic type discriminator,
so the post's serialised output cannot be read back.
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# Part 6 — Streaming API and the tree model
Post: <https://ankurm.com/jackson-streaming-api-jsonnode/>
Renames that break the post's code verbatim:
| Jackson 2 | Jackson 3 |
|---|---|
| `com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonFactory` | `tools.jackson.core.json.JsonFactory` (note the extra `.json`) |
| `parser.getCurrentName()` | `parser.currentName()` |
| `parser.getText()` | `parser.getString()` |
| `JsonToken.FIELD_NAME` | `JsonToken.PROPERTY_NAME` |
| `gen.writeNumberField` / `writeStringField` | `gen.writeNumberProperty` / `writeStringProperty` |
| `node.asText()` | `node.asString()` |
| `factory.createParser(file)` | `factory.createParser(ObjectReadContext.empty(), file)` |
The comparison post's performance section gives the import as
`tools.jackson.core.JsonFactory`, which does not resolve — the class is in the
`.json` subpackage.
## G01 — filtering a large array
[`G01StreamingParserFilter.java`](../src/main/java/com/ankurm/jackson3/part6streaming/G01StreamingParserFilter.java)
```
ERROR: Database connection failed
Total errors found: 1
```
## G02 — writing a million records
[`G02StreamingGenerator.java`](../src/main/java/com/ankurm/jackson3/part6streaming/G02StreamingGenerator.java)
The post's loop, kept at its full 1,000,000 iterations, with the heap delta measured so
"constant memory usage" is a number.
```
records written : 1000000
file size : 30 MB
elapsed : 129 ms
heap delta : 0 MB <- the document is never held in memory
```
## G03 — the tree model
[`G03TreeModelNavigation.java`](../src/main/java/com/ankurm/jackson3/part6streaming/G03TreeModelNavigation.java)
```
Customer: Alice
KB-01 x2
MS-42 x1
Has discount: false
path(missing) : (class MissingNode)
get(missing) : null
deep path : '<default>'
treeToValue : CustomerRecord[name=Alice, tier=gold]
```
The `path(missing)` / `get(missing)` pair is the whole argument for `path()`: it returns
a `MissingNode` that chains safely, where `get()` returns `null` and the next call NPEs.
## G04 — the decision table, measured
[`G04ThreeApproachesMeasured.java`](../src/main/java/com/ankurm/jackson3/part6streaming/G04ThreeApproachesMeasured.java)
The post closes with a table asserting relative memory and verbosity. This runs the same
filter three ways over a generated 20 MB file.
```
input file : 20 MB, 200000 entries
data binding (readValue) errors=4000 524 ms heap delta 47 MB
tree model (readTree) errors=4000 341 ms heap delta 102 MB
streaming (JsonParser) errors=4000 78 ms heap delta 1 MB
```
Single-shot measurements on a 2-core container, not JMH — treat the ordering as the
result, not the absolute figures. Two things do stand out and are stable across runs:
the tree model costs roughly twice the heap of data binding for the same document, and
streaming is the only approach whose heap does not scale with input size.