isabella232 / jackson-docs

Documentation for the Jackson JSON processor.

This project is the main hub to all kinds of documentation related to the Jackson JSON Processor.

Tutorials

For your first steps in understanding how to use Jackson, following tutorials are good places to start:

• Baeldung Jackson JSON Tutorial
• Jackson in N minutes (README for jackson-databind project)
• Jenkov.com Jackson Tutorial
• JournalDev JacksonTutorial
• LogicBig.com Jackson Tutorial
• Mkyong.com's Jackson Tutorial (part of larger Java JSON Tutorials
• StudyTrails Jackson Introduction

General

Annotations

• Jackson Annotations (links to core/databind/JAXB annotations)
• Customize your Java-JSON serialization using Jackson Annotations
• Advanced Jackson annotations

Frameworks, Platforms

• Jackson on Android (proguard definitions)

JVM Languages beyond Java

(need links to Scala, Kotlin, Clojure tutorials, articles)

Other

• Where are the Javadocs?
• Presentations by Jackson Team, friends

Documentation under Jackson GH projects

Jackson project hub has links to all active Jackson projects. These projects contain plenty of project-specific documentation, such as:

• Core Annotations
  • List of Jackson Core Annotations
• Streaming API
  • On/off features: JsonFactory.Features, JsonGenerator.Features,JsonParser.Features.
• Databind
  • Databind Annotations
  • On/off features: DeserializationFeatures, SerializationFeatures, MapperFeatures.

External (off-GitHub) documentation

Blogs that regularly write about Jackson include:

• Cowtowncoder @Medium
• CowTalk Blog (old, getting obsolete)

And here are good articles around the web:

• General usage
  • Jackson JSON Tutorial by Eugen Paraschiv
  • Jackson - Installation at Jenkov.com
  • Processing JSON with Jackson (DZone)
  • Jackson jr for casual JSON processing
• Jackson annotations:
  • A Guide to Jackson Annotations by Baeldung
  • Jackson Annotations at Jenkov.com
• Streaming reading/writing
  • Customize serialization with Jackson Annotations
• Streaming API
  • Jackson - JsonParser
  • Jackson - JsonGenerator
• Polymorphic type handling:
  • Custom polymorphic type handling with Jackson (2013 Sep)
• Data formats beyond JSON
  • Writing CSV using Jackson CSVMapper & Mixin annotations
  • Reading, Writing Java Properties with Jackson
  • Read YAML in Java with Jackson
• Platform-specific Jackson integration
  • Apache CXF
    • Configuring Snake Case naming

Participating

The easiest ways to participate is to join one of Jackson mailing lists (Jackson google groups):

• Jackson Announce: Announcement-only list for new Jackson releases, meetups and other events related to Jackson
• Jackson User: List dedicated for discussion on Jackson usage
• Jackson Dev: List for developers of Jackson core components and modules, discussing implementation details, API changes.

There are other related lists and forums as well:

• Smile Format Discussion: List for discussing details of the binary JSON format called Smile (see Smile Specificat
  ion)
• Jackson Users is a Jackson-specific discussion forum for usage questions.

Sample code

See (External) Jackson Sample Code.

On Jackson versioning

Note that there are two major Jackson versions: 1.x (1.0 - 1.9) and 2.x (2.0 - 2.9). These versions can co-exist as they are located in different Java packages and use different jar naming and Maven group/artifact ids. But this means that you have to make sure that all components in use have matching major versions: specifically, Jackson 2.x code does NOT understand or support Jackson 1.x annotations, or vice versa.

Minor versions (like 2.1 and 2.2) are backwards compatible with respect to public API: old code should work without recompilation, if (but only if) it relies on external API; public methods, annotations. When overriding internal functionality, we try hard to maintain backwards compatibility between adjacent minor versions; need for changes is indicated by deprecating internal methods. Recompilation is thus recommended when extending by sub-classing, for example.

Misc other

• Old Jackson home is still occasionally linked to from various places -- please DO NOT link from new documentation.
• Jackson Git Hub is the... The Hub for all stuff, including this project.