Field Detail

• DEFAULT_DATE_FORMAT

  protected static final DateFormat DEFAULT_DATE_FORMAT

  This is the default DateFormat used unless overridden by custom implementation.

• _base

  protected MapperConfig.Base _base

  Immutable container object for simple configuration settings.

  Note: ideally this would be final, but until we can eliminate mutators, must keep it mutable.

• _mixInAnnotations

  protected HashMap<ClassKey,​Class<?>> _mixInAnnotations

  Mapping that defines how to apply mix-in annotations: key is the type to received additional annotations, and value is the type that has annotations to "mix in".

  Annotations associated with the value classes will be used to override annotations of the key class, associated with the same field or method. They can be further masked by sub-classes: you can think of it as injecting annotations between the target class and its sub-classes (or interfaces)

  Since:

  1.2

• _mixInAnnotationsShared

  protected boolean _mixInAnnotationsShared

  Flag used to detect when a copy if mix-in annotations is needed: set when current copy is shared, cleared when a fresh copy is made

  Since:

  1.2

• _subtypeResolver

  protected SubtypeResolver _subtypeResolver

  Registered concrete subtypes that can be used instead of (or in addition to) ones declared using annotations. Unlike most other settings, it is not configured as early as it is set, but rather only when a non-shared instance is constructed by ObjectMapper (or -Reader or -Writer)

  Note: this is the only property left as non-final, to allow lazy construction of the instance as necessary.

  Since:

  1.6

Constructor Detail

• MapperConfig

  protected MapperConfig​(ClassIntrospector<? extends BeanDescription> ci,
                         AnnotationIntrospector ai,
                         VisibilityChecker<?> vc,
                         SubtypeResolver str,
                         PropertyNamingStrategy pns,
                         TypeFactory tf,
                         HandlerInstantiator hi)

• MapperConfig

  protected MapperConfig​(MapperConfig<T> src)

  Simple copy constructor

  Since:

  1.8

• MapperConfig

  protected MapperConfig​(MapperConfig<T> src,
                         MapperConfig.Base base,
                         SubtypeResolver str)

  Since:

  1.8

Method Detail

• fromAnnotations

  @Deprecated
  public abstract void fromAnnotations​(Class<?> cls)

  Deprecated.

  Since 1.9, it is preferably to explicitly configure instances; this method also modifies existing instance which is against immutable design goals of this class.
  Method that checks class annotations that the argument Object has, and modifies settings of this configuration object accordingly, similar to how those annotations would affect actual value classes annotated with them, but with global scope. Note that not all annotations have global significance, and thus only subset of Jackson annotations will have any effect.

• createUnshared

  public abstract T createUnshared​(SubtypeResolver subtypeResolver)

  Method to use for constructing an instance that is not shared between multiple operations but only used for a single one (which may be this instance, if it is immutable; if not, a copy is constructed with same settings)

  Since:

  1.8

• withClassIntrospector

  public abstract T withClassIntrospector​(ClassIntrospector<? extends BeanDescription> ci)

  Method for constructing and returning a new instance with different ClassIntrospector to use.

  NOTE: make sure to register new instance with ObjectMapper if directly calling this method.

  Since:

  1.8

• withAnnotationIntrospector

  public abstract T withAnnotationIntrospector​(AnnotationIntrospector ai)

  Method for constructing and returning a new instance with different AnnotationIntrospector to use (replacing old one).

  NOTE: make sure to register new instance with ObjectMapper if directly calling this method.

  Since:

  1.8

• withVisibilityChecker

  public abstract T withVisibilityChecker​(VisibilityChecker<?> vc)

  Method for constructing and returning a new instance with different VisibilityChecker to use.

  NOTE: make sure to register new instance with ObjectMapper if directly calling this method.

  Since:

  1.8

• withVisibility

  public abstract T withVisibility​(JsonMethod forMethod,
                                   JsonAutoDetect.Visibility visibility)

  Method for constructing and returning a new instance with different minimal visibility level for specified property type

  NOTE: make sure to register new instance with ObjectMapper if directly calling this method.

  Since:

  1.9

• withTypeResolverBuilder

  public abstract T withTypeResolverBuilder​(TypeResolverBuilder<?> trb)

  Method for constructing and returning a new instance with different TypeResolverBuilder to use.

  NOTE: make sure to register new instance with ObjectMapper if directly calling this method.

  Since:

  1.8

• withSubtypeResolver

  public abstract T withSubtypeResolver​(SubtypeResolver str)

  Method for constructing and returning a new instance with different SubtypeResolver to use.

  NOTE: make sure to register new instance with ObjectMapper if directly calling this method.

  Since:

  1.8

• withPropertyNamingStrategy

  public abstract T withPropertyNamingStrategy​(PropertyNamingStrategy strategy)

  Method for constructing and returning a new instance with different PropertyNamingStrategy to use.

  NOTE: make sure to register new instance with ObjectMapper if directly calling this method.

  Since:

  1.8

• withTypeFactory

  public abstract T withTypeFactory​(TypeFactory typeFactory)

  Method for constructing and returning a new instance with different TypeFactory to use.

  NOTE: make sure to register new instance with ObjectMapper if directly calling this method.

  Since:

  1.8

• withDateFormat

  public abstract T withDateFormat​(DateFormat df)

  Method for constructing and returning a new instance with different DateFormat to use.

  NOTE: make sure to register new instance with ObjectMapper if directly calling this method.

  Since:

  1.8

• withHandlerInstantiator

  public abstract T withHandlerInstantiator​(HandlerInstantiator hi)

  Method for constructing and returning a new instance with different HandlerInstantiator to use.

  NOTE: make sure to register new instance with ObjectMapper if directly calling this method.

  Since:

  1.8

• withInsertedAnnotationIntrospector

  public abstract T withInsertedAnnotationIntrospector​(AnnotationIntrospector introspector)

  Method for constructing and returning a new instance with additional AnnotationIntrospector inserted (as the highest priority one)

  Since:

  1.9

• withAppendedAnnotationIntrospector

  public abstract T withAppendedAnnotationIntrospector​(AnnotationIntrospector introspector)

  Method for constructing and returning a new instance with additional AnnotationIntrospector appended (as the lowest priority one)

  Since:

  1.9

• isEnabled

  public abstract boolean isEnabled​(MapperConfig.ConfigFeature f)

  Method for checking whether given feature is enabled or not

• isAnnotationProcessingEnabled

  public abstract boolean isAnnotationProcessingEnabled()

  Method for determining whether annotation processing is enabled or not (default settings are typically that it is enabled; must explicitly disable).

  Returns:

  True if annotation processing is enabled; false if not

  Since:

  1.8

• canOverrideAccessModifiers

  public abstract boolean canOverrideAccessModifiers()

  Accessor for determining whether it is ok to try to force override of access modifiers to be able to get or set values of non-public Methods, Fields; to invoke non-public Constructors, Methods; or to instantiate non-public Classes. By default this is enabled, but on some platforms it needs to be prevented since if this would violate security constraints and cause failures.

  Returns:

  True if access modifier overriding is allowed (and may be done for any Field, Method, Constructor or Class); false to prevent any attempts to override.

  Since:

  1.8

• shouldSortPropertiesAlphabetically

  public abstract boolean shouldSortPropertiesAlphabetically()

  Accessor for checking whether default settings for property handling indicate that properties should be alphabetically ordered or not.

  Since:

  1.9

• getClassIntrospector

  public ClassIntrospector<? extends BeanDescription> getClassIntrospector()

• getAnnotationIntrospector

  public AnnotationIntrospector getAnnotationIntrospector()

  Method for getting AnnotationIntrospector configured to introspect annotation values used for configuration.

  Non-final since it is actually overridden by sub-classes (for now?)

• insertAnnotationIntrospector

  @Deprecated
  public final void insertAnnotationIntrospector​(AnnotationIntrospector introspector)

  Deprecated.

  Since 1.9 use withInsertedAnnotationIntrospector(AnnotationIntrospector) instead; this method is deprecated as it changes state, preventing immutability of instances
  Method for registering specified AnnotationIntrospector as the highest priority introspector (will be chained with existing introspector(s) which will be used as fallbacks for cases this introspector does not handle)

  Parameters:

  introspector - Annotation introspector to register.

  Since:

  1.7

• appendAnnotationIntrospector

  @Deprecated
  public final void appendAnnotationIntrospector​(AnnotationIntrospector introspector)

  Deprecated.

  Since 1.9 use withAppendedAnnotationIntrospector(AnnotationIntrospector) instead; this method is deprecated as it changes state, preventing immutability of instances
  Method for registering specified AnnotationIntrospector as the lowest priority introspector, chained with existing introspector(s) and called as fallback for cases not otherwise handled.

  Parameters:

  introspector - Annotation introspector to register.

  Since:

  1.7

• getDefaultVisibilityChecker

  public VisibilityChecker<?> getDefaultVisibilityChecker()

  Accessor for object used for determining whether specific property elements (method, constructors, fields) can be auto-detected based on their visibility (access modifiers). Can be changed to allow different minimum visibility levels for auto-detection. Note that this is the global handler; individual types (classes) can further override active checker used (using JsonAutoDetect annotation)

  Since:

  1.5

• getPropertyNamingStrategy

  public final PropertyNamingStrategy getPropertyNamingStrategy()

  Since:

  1.8

• getHandlerInstantiator

  public final HandlerInstantiator getHandlerInstantiator()

  Since:

  1.8

• setMixInAnnotations

  public final void setMixInAnnotations​(Map<Class<?>,​Class<?>> sourceMixins)

  Method to use for defining mix-in annotations to use for augmenting annotations that processable (serializable / deserializable) classes have. Mixing in is done when introspecting class annotations and properties. Map passed contains keys that are target classes (ones to augment with new annotation overrides), and values that are source classes (have annotations to use for augmentation). Annotations from source classes (and their supertypes) will override annotations that target classes (and their super-types) have.

  Since:

  1.2

• addMixInAnnotations

  public final void addMixInAnnotations​(Class<?> target,
                                        Class<?> mixinSource)

  Method to use for adding mix-in annotations to use for augmenting specified class or interface. All annotations from mixinSource are taken to override annotations that target (or its supertypes) has.

  Parameters:

  target - Class (or interface) whose annotations to effectively override

  mixinSource - Class (or interface) whose annotations are to be "added" to target's annotations, overriding as necessary

  Since:

  1.2

• findMixInClassFor

  public final Class<?> findMixInClassFor​(Class<?> cls)

  Method that will check if there are "mix-in" classes (with mix-in annotations) for given class

  Specified by:

  findMixInClassFor in interface ClassIntrospector.MixInResolver

  Since:

  1.2

• mixInCount

  public final int mixInCount()

  Since:

  1.8.1

• getDefaultTyper

  public final TypeResolverBuilder<?> getDefaultTyper​(JavaType baseType)

  Method called to locate a type info handler for types that do not have one explicitly declared via annotations (or other configuration). If such default handler is configured, it is returned; otherwise null is returned.

  Since:

  1.5

• getSubtypeResolver

  public final SubtypeResolver getSubtypeResolver()

  Accessor for object used for finding out all reachable subtypes for supertypes; needed when a logical type name is used instead of class name (or custom scheme).

  Since:

  1.6

• getTypeFactory

  public final TypeFactory getTypeFactory()

  Since:

  1.8

• constructType

  public final JavaType constructType​(Class<?> cls)

  Helper method that will construct JavaType for given raw class. This is a simple short-cut for:

      getTypeFactory().constructType(cls);
  

  Since:

  1.8

• constructType

  public final JavaType constructType​(TypeReference<?> valueTypeRef)

  Helper method that will construct JavaType for given type reference This is a simple short-cut for:

      getTypeFactory().constructType(valueTypeRef);
  

  Since:

  1.9

• constructSpecializedType

  public JavaType constructSpecializedType​(JavaType baseType,
                                           Class<?> subclass)

  Since:

  1.9.1

• getDateFormat

  public final DateFormat getDateFormat()

  Method for accessing currently configured (textual) date format that will be used for reading or writing date values (in case of writing, only if textual output is configured; not if dates are to be serialized as time stamps).

  Note that typically DateFormat instances are not thread-safe (at least ones provided by JDK): this means that calling code should clone format instance before using it.

  This method is usually only called by framework itself, since there are convenience methods available via DeserializationContext and SerializerProvider that take care of cloning and thread-safe reuse.

• introspectClassAnnotations

  public <DESC extends BeanDescription> DESC introspectClassAnnotations​(Class<?> cls)

  Accessor for getting bean description that only contains class annotations: useful if no getter/setter/creator information is needed.

  Since:

  1.7

• introspectClassAnnotations

  public abstract <DESC extends BeanDescription> DESC introspectClassAnnotations​(JavaType type)

  Accessor for getting bean description that only contains class annotations: useful if no getter/setter/creator information is needed.

  Since:

  1.9

• introspectDirectClassAnnotations

  public <DESC extends BeanDescription> DESC introspectDirectClassAnnotations​(Class<?> cls)

  Accessor for getting bean description that only contains immediate class annotations: ones from the class, and its direct mix-in, if any, but not from super types.

  Since:

  1.7

• introspectDirectClassAnnotations

  public abstract <DESC extends BeanDescription> DESC introspectDirectClassAnnotations​(JavaType type)

  Accessor for getting bean description that only contains immediate class annotations: ones from the class, and its direct mix-in, if any, but not from super types.

• typeResolverBuilderInstance

  public TypeResolverBuilder<?> typeResolverBuilderInstance​(Annotated annotated,
                                                            Class<? extends TypeResolverBuilder<?>> builderClass)

  Method that can be called to obtain an instance of TypeIdResolver of specified type.

  Since:

  1.8

• typeIdResolverInstance

  public TypeIdResolver typeIdResolverInstance​(Annotated annotated,
                                               Class<? extends TypeIdResolver> resolverClass)

  Method that can be called to obtain an instance of TypeIdResolver of specified type.

  Since:

  1.8

• setAnnotationIntrospector

  @Deprecated
  public final void setAnnotationIntrospector​(AnnotationIntrospector ai)

  Deprecated.

  Since 1.8, use either withAnnotationIntrospector(AnnotationIntrospector) or Module API instead
  Method for replacing existing annotation introspector(s) with specified introspector. Since this method modifies state of configuration object directly, its use is not recommended.

• setDateFormat

  @Deprecated
  public void setDateFormat​(DateFormat df)

  Deprecated.

  As of version 1.8, it is preferable to call method in ObjectMapper instead; or construct new instance with withDateFormat(DateFormat)
  Method that will define specific date format to use for reading/writing Date and Calendar values. If null is passed, will use StdDateFormat. Instance is used as is, without creating a clone. Format object in use can be accessed using getDateFormat().

  Parameters:

  df - Date format to use, if not null; if null, the default format will be used