Make com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core dependency optional

I’m trying to upgrade to ESRI 2.1.0, but it requires 2.9.4 version of com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core. My project - https://prestodb.io/ - currently uses jackson-core:2.8.1 and can’t upgrade to jackson-core:2.9.4 due to a regression https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/1972 . Since I don’t use any GeoJSON features yet, I tried to exclude the dependency, but it is not optional.

Would it be possible to make this dependency optional?

[mbasmanova]

@stolstov @randallwhitman Oh… sorry for confusion. I was adding the exclusion to dependencyManagement in the parent pom and that didn’t work. I then added it to all the child pom files and that seems to be working. Thanks for helping to sort this out!

[stolstov]

@mbasmanova I googled around and maybe this is what you want. I have not tried this:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.esri.geometry</groupId>
  <artifactId>esri-geometry-api</artifactId>
  <version>2.1.0</version>
  <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
	    <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
   </exclusions>
</dependency>

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6542118/override-dependencies-of-third-party-jar-in-maven?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_rich_qa&utm_campaign=google_rich_qa

POM doc exclusions: http://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Exclusions