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Migrate to Jackson 3 #4932
Description
Clone of #4758. Many projects in the Java ecosystem have already migrated (or are migrating) to Jackson 3. As a result, consumers of this library might need to support both Jackson 2 and Jackson 3 dependency trees simultaneously, which complicates dependency management, mainly when updating for security issues.
It would be valuable to plan a migration to Jackson 3 and release it as part of the next major version.
Considerations
- This change would require a major version bump due to inevitable breaking changes in the public API (the
IntOrStringclass) and dependency requirements. - Jackson 3.x requires Java 17+, which should be clearly communicated as a runtime baseline change.
Alternatives
Drop explicit support for Jackson in the core library and let downstream projects register the serializer.
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brendandburns commentedon Oct 8, 2026
This would require this to be added to the upstream generator, and also for us to move the minimum java from Java 11 to java 17 which I don't think we're planning currently.
If you wanted to make the serializer pluggable, again, that would be something that needs to be done in the upstream code generator and do it in such a way that it doesn't harm the usability of this library.