Looking at the Jackson Serializer post, it does introduce a particular code smell as it uses if statements to check the type of object and take a different action based on that type. Normally, that is indicative of the need to implement the action in the class and/or subclasses. However, this is serialization and we […]

Jackson is a framework that provides the means to read and write objects to and from JSON. Typically, it tries to use built in support for common classes and simple types. It will also use a default serializer based on reflection to write the JSON, but will need some guidance for more complex custom objects. […]