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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package com.ankurm.jackson3.part1objectmapper;
import tools.jackson.databind.json.JsonMapper;
import java.io.File;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.util.List;
/**
* Post: Jackson ObjectMapper Guide — https://ankurm.com/jackson-objectmapper-guide/
* Section: "Serialising Java Objects to JSON"
*
* Every write target: String, File, and pretty-printed String.
*/
public class B01WriteJson {
public record Article(Long articleId, String title, List<String> tags) { }
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
JsonMapper mapper = JsonMapper.builder().build();
Article article = new Article(1L, "Jackson Deep Dive", List.of("java", "json"));
// 1. Write to a String
String jsonOutput = mapper.writeValueAsString(article);
System.out.println(jsonOutput);
// 2. Write to a File
File target = File.createTempFile("article", ".json");
mapper.writeValue(target, article);
System.out.println("file : " + Files.readString(target.toPath()));
// 3. Pretty-printed output
String pretty = mapper.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(article);
System.out.println("pretty :");
System.out.println(pretty);
target.deleteOnExit();
}
}
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package com.ankurm.jackson3.part1objectmapper;
import tools.jackson.databind.json.JsonMapper;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.util.List;
/**
* Post: Jackson ObjectMapper Guide — https://ankurm.com/jackson-objectmapper-guide/
* Section: "Deserialising JSON to Java Objects"
*
* Reading from a String, a File and an InputStream.
*
* The post also shows readValue(new URL(...), ...). That overload is deliberately
* NOT reproduced here: it performs a live network call, which would make this
* example non-reproducible. The InputStream form below is what a real HTTP client
* hands you anyway.
*/
public class B02ReadJson {
public record Article(Long articleId, String title, List<String> tags) { }
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
JsonMapper mapper = JsonMapper.builder().build();
String json = "{\"articleId\":1,\"title\":\"Jackson Deep Dive\",\"tags\":[\"java\",\"json\"]}";
// 1. Read from a String
Article fromString = mapper.readValue(json, Article.class);
System.out.println("from String : " + fromString.title());
// 2. Read from a File
File file = File.createTempFile("article", ".json");
Files.writeString(file.toPath(), json);
Article fromFile = mapper.readValue(file, Article.class);
System.out.println("from File : " + fromFile.articleId());
// 3. Read from an InputStream
try (var in = new ByteArrayInputStream(json.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8))) {
Article fromStream = mapper.readValue(in, Article.class);
System.out.println("from Stream : " + fromStream.tags());
}
file.deleteOnExit();
}
}
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package com.ankurm.jackson3.part1objectmapper;
import tools.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
import tools.jackson.databind.json.JsonMapper;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
/**
* Post: Jackson ObjectMapper Guide — https://ankurm.com/jackson-objectmapper-guide/
* Section: "Working with Collections and Generic Types"
*
* Why TypeReference is required, and what actually happens without it.
*
* Note the import: TypeReference lives in tools.jackson.core.type in Jackson 3.
*/
public class B03GenericCollections {
public record Article(Long articleId, String title) { }
public static void main(String[] args) {
JsonMapper mapper = JsonMapper.builder().build();
String jsonArray = "[{\"articleId\":1,\"title\":\"First\"},"
+ "{\"articleId\":2,\"title\":\"Second\"}]";
// CORRECT: TypeReference captures List<Article> through an anonymous subclass,
// so the parameterised type survives erasure and reaches Jackson at runtime.
List<Article> articles = mapper.readValue(jsonArray, new TypeReference<List<Article>>() { });
System.out.println("size : " + articles.size());
System.out.println("element class : " + articles.get(0).getClass().getSimpleName());
System.out.println("first title : " + articles.get(0).title());
// WRONG: List.class erases the element type. This COMPILES and does not throw
// here — the failure is deferred to the first time you treat an element as an
// Article, which is what makes it such an unpleasant bug.
@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
List raw = mapper.readValue(jsonArray, List.class);
System.out.println("raw element : " + raw.get(0).getClass().getSimpleName()
+ " <- not Article");
try {
Article boom = (Article) raw.get(0);
System.out.println("unreachable: " + boom);
} catch (ClassCastException e) {
System.out.println("cast fails : ClassCastException, as expected");
}
// A Map value type needs the same treatment.
String jsonObject = "{\"a\":{\"articleId\":9,\"title\":\"Nine\"}}";
Map<String, Article> byKey =
mapper.readValue(jsonObject, new TypeReference<Map<String, Article>>() { });
System.out.println("map value : " + byKey.get("a").title());
}
}
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package com.ankurm.jackson3.part1objectmapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonPropertyOrder;
import tools.jackson.databind.json.JsonMapper;
/**
* BEYOND THE POST — no blog section covers this, but it bites on first run.
*
* A record serialises in declaration order. A getter-based POJO serialises in
* ALPHABETICAL order. If you are diffing Jackson output against a fixture, this
* is usually the reason the diff is not empty.
*/
public class B04PropertyOrdering {
/** Getter-based POJO: output is alphabetical, NOT declaration order. */
public static class ProductPojo {
private Long productId;
private String productName;
private double listPrice;
public ProductPojo(Long i, String n, double p) { productId = i; productName = n; listPrice = p; }
public Long getProductId() { return productId; }
public String getProductName() { return productName; }
public double getListPrice() { return listPrice; }
}
/** Record: output follows the component declaration order. */
public record ProductRecord(Long productId, String productName, double listPrice) { }
/** Explicit ordering wins over both defaults. */
@JsonPropertyOrder({ "productId", "productName", "listPrice" })
public static class ProductOrdered {
private final Long productId;
private final String productName;
private final double listPrice;
public ProductOrdered(Long i, String n, double p) { productId = i; productName = n; listPrice = p; }
public Long getProductId() { return productId; }
public String getProductName() { return productName; }
public double getListPrice() { return listPrice; }
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
JsonMapper mapper = JsonMapper.builder().build();
System.out.println("POJO : " + mapper.writeValueAsString(
new ProductPojo(1L, "Mechanical Keyboard", 79.99)));
System.out.println("record : " + mapper.writeValueAsString(
new ProductRecord(1L, "Mechanical Keyboard", 79.99)));
System.out.println("ordered : " + mapper.writeValueAsString(
new ProductOrdered(1L, "Mechanical Keyboard", 79.99)));
}
}