Migrating Jackson from Java 8 to 17

Question

I'm trying to upgrade my project from Java 8 to 17. Afaik this inherently includes replacing Javax with Jakarta. For that I used the Intellij Javax->Jakarta migration tool. My classes use com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation annotations JsonCreator JsonProperty JsonAlias JsonIgnore.

Running some tests with Java 17 however gives the following error:

Caused by: jakarta.json.bind.JsonbException: Cannot create instance of a class: class io.wouter.bolendpoints.entities.BolRateLimit, No default constructor found.

with io.wouter.bolendpoints.entities.BolRateLimit a class that 'm trying to deserialize.

Replacing the JsonCreator and JsonProperty annotations with Jakarta annotations JsonbCreator JsonbProperty solves the error. But then I also need a replacement for JsonAlias and JsonIgnore. And if possible I rather stick with the Jackson annotations anyway.

What is the right way to go here? I can find very little documentation about this.

EDIT: After @M.Deinum's comments I got things running again with these old dependencies (and reverting all Jakarta imports to Javax):

        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/javax.xml.bind/jaxb-api -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
            <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jaxb/jaxb-runtime -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jaxb</groupId>
            <artifactId>jaxb-runtime</artifactId>
            <version>2.3.2</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jersey.core/jersey-client -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
            <version>2.35</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jersey.inject/jersey-hk2 -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.inject</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-hk2</artifactId>
            <version>2.35</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jersey.connectors/jersey-apache-connector -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.connectors</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-apache-connector</artifactId>
            <version>2.35</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jersey.media/jersey-media-json-jackson -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-media-json-jackson</artifactId>
            <version>2.35</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jersey.security/oauth2-client -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.security</groupId>
            <artifactId>oauth2-client</artifactId>
            <version>2.35</version>
        </dependency>

However, the javax.xml.bind.jaxb-api dependency wasn't updated after 2018, so I guess I should still switch to Jakarta? These are the dependencies I'd use for that:

        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/jakarta.xml.bind/jakarta.xml.bind-api -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>jakarta.xml.bind</groupId>
            <artifactId>jakarta.xml.bind-api</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jaxb/jaxb-runtime -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jaxb</groupId>
            <artifactId>jaxb-runtime</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.1</version>
        </dependency>

        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jersey.core/jersey-client -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jersey.inject/jersey-hk2 -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.inject</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-hk2</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jersey.connectors/jersey-apache-connector -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.connectors</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-apache-connector</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jersey.media/jersey-media-json-jackson -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
            <artifactId>jersey-media-json-jackson</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jersey.security/oauth2-client -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.security</groupId>
            <artifactId>oauth2-client</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.2</version>
        </dependency>

But then I get the old error again: Caused by: jakarta.json.bind.JsonbException: Cannot create instance of a class: class io.wouter.bolendpoints.entities.BolRateLimit, No default constructor found.

Any ideas how to move on from here?

Answer 1

Ok, so it turned out that the jakarta.xml.bind-api and jaxb-runtime dependencies were superfluous, and the oauth2-client dependency wasn't needed either but screwed things up some way or another. With the dependencies underneath, it all seems to works now:

    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jersey.core/jersey-client -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.2</version>
    </dependency>
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jersey.inject/jersey-hk2 -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.inject</groupId>
        <artifactId>jersey-hk2</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.2</version>
    </dependency>
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jersey.connectors/jersey-apache-connector -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.connectors</groupId>
        <artifactId>jersey-apache-connector</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.2</version>
    </dependency>
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.glassfish.jersey.media/jersey-media-json-jackson -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>
        <artifactId>jersey-media-json-jackson</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.2</version>
    </dependency>