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Typed object throws "Missing type id" when annotated with @JsonIdentityInfo

See original GitHub issue

Tested with Jackson 2.12.0-rc2-SNAPSHOT

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIdentityInfo;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonSubTypes;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonSubTypes.Type;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonTypeInfo;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonTypeInfo.Id;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.ObjectIdGenerators;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.yaml.YAMLFactory;
import java.util.List;
import org.junit.Test;

public class JacksonYamlTest {
    
    static class Container {
        @JsonProperty
        List<Base> list;
    }
    
    @JsonTypeInfo(use = Id.NAME)
    @JsonSubTypes({@Type(name="Derived", value=Derived.class)})
    @JsonIdentityInfo(generator = ObjectIdGenerators.StringIdGenerator.class)
    static class Base {
        
    }
    
    static class Derived extends Base {
        @JsonProperty
        String a;
    }
    
    @Test
    public void typedTestYaml() throws Exception {
        
        String yaml = "list:\n" +
                      "    - !Derived\n" +
                      "        a: foo";
        
        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper (new YAMLFactory());
        Container container = mapper.readValue (yaml, Container.class);
        
        System.out.println (((Derived)container.list.get(0)).a);
    }
    
    @Test
    public void typedTestJson() throws Exception {
        
        String json = "{\"list\":[{\"@type\":\"Derived\",\"a\":\"foo\"}]}";
        
        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
        Container container = mapper.readValue (json, Container.class);
        
        System.out.println (((Derived)container.list.get(0)).a);
    }
}

typedTestYaml throws:

com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.InvalidTypeIdException: 
Missing type id when trying to resolve subtype of [simple type, class JacksonYamlTest$Base]: missing type id property '@type' (for POJO property 'list')
 at [Source: (StringReader); line: 3, column: 15] (through reference chain: JacksonYamlTest$Container["list"]->java.util.ArrayList[0])
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.InvalidTypeIdException.from(InvalidTypeIdException.java:43)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.missingTypeIdException(DeserializationContext.java:1945)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.handleMissingTypeId(DeserializationContext.java:1458)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.jsontype.impl.TypeDeserializerBase._handleMissingTypeId(TypeDeserializerBase.java:307)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.jsontype.impl.AsPropertyTypeDeserializer._deserializeTypedUsingDefaultImpl(AsPropertyTypeDeserializer.java:174)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.jsontype.impl.AsPropertyTypeDeserializer.deserializeTypedFromObject(AsPropertyTypeDeserializer.java:113)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.deserializeWithType(BeanDeserializerBase.java:1277)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.CollectionDeserializer._deserializeWithObjectId(CollectionDeserializer.java:443)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.CollectionDeserializer._deserializeFromArray(CollectionDeserializer.java:334)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.CollectionDeserializer.deserialize(CollectionDeserializer.java:244)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.CollectionDeserializer.deserialize(CollectionDeserializer.java:28)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.impl.FieldProperty.deserializeAndSet(FieldProperty.java:138)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer.vanillaDeserialize(BeanDeserializer.java:324)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserialize(BeanDeserializer.java:187)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DefaultDeserializationContext.readRootValue(DefaultDeserializationContext.java:322)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._readMapAndClose(ObjectMapper.java:4591)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:3546)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:3514)
	at JacksonYamlTest.typedTestYaml(JacksonYamlTest.java:54)com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.InvalidTypeIdException: 
Missing type id when trying to resolve subtype of [simple type, class JacksonYamlTest$Base]: missing type id property '@type' (for POJO property 'list')
 at [Source: (StringReader); line: 3, column: 15] (through reference chain: JacksonYamlTest$Container["list"]->java.util.ArrayList[0])
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.InvalidTypeIdException.from(InvalidTypeIdException.java:43)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.missingTypeIdException(DeserializationContext.java:1945)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.handleMissingTypeId(DeserializationContext.java:1458)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.jsontype.impl.TypeDeserializerBase._handleMissingTypeId(TypeDeserializerBase.java:307)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.jsontype.impl.AsPropertyTypeDeserializer._deserializeTypedUsingDefaultImpl(AsPropertyTypeDeserializer.java:174)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.jsontype.impl.AsPropertyTypeDeserializer.deserializeTypedFromObject(AsPropertyTypeDeserializer.java:113)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.deserializeWithType(BeanDeserializerBase.java:1277)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.CollectionDeserializer._deserializeWithObjectId(CollectionDeserializer.java:443)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.CollectionDeserializer._deserializeFromArray(CollectionDeserializer.java:334)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.CollectionDeserializer.deserialize(CollectionDeserializer.java:244)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.CollectionDeserializer.deserialize(CollectionDeserializer.java:28)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.impl.FieldProperty.deserializeAndSet(FieldProperty.java:138)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer.vanillaDeserialize(BeanDeserializer.java:324)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserialize(BeanDeserializer.java:187)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DefaultDeserializationContext.readRootValue(DefaultDeserializationContext.java:322)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._readMapAndClose(ObjectMapper.java:4591)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:3546)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:3514)
	at JacksonYamlTest.typedTestYaml(JacksonYamlTest.java:54)

Issue Analytics

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:10 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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yawkatcommented, Jun 29, 2022

your code does not use yaml though? this was specifically a yaml issue

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cowtowncodercommented, Nov 24, 2020

On further inspection, no buffering involved in this particular case. But type-id is off between cases: without @JsonIdentityInfo, type id asked at START_OBJECT and is found; with it asked on following FIELD_NAME and no longer available.

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