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Micronaut framework 5 with Jackson 3

calendar_today May 1, 2026 person Sergio Del Amo Caballero domain micronaut

Since Micronaut Framework 3.3.0, you can use Micronaut Serialization as an alternative to Micronaut Jackson Databind. Moreover, the framework exposes low-level APIs such as JsonMapper to avoid coupling between serialization implementations.

Micronaut Jackson Databind internally used Jackson 2. With the release of Micronaut 5, Micronaut Jackson Databind (micronaut-jackson-databind) uses Jackson 3. See the Jackson 3 upgrade guide and the Jackson 3 release notes.

To update your application, you can use the Jackson 2 to Jackson 3 OpenRewrite recipe.

plugins {
    ..
    id("org.openrewrite.rewrite")
}
repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}
rewrite {
    activeRecipe("org.openrewrite.java.jackson.UpgradeJackson_2_3")
}
dependencies {
    rewrite("org.openrewrite.recipe:rewrite-jackson:1.11.0")
    compileOnly("tools.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.17.2")
}
Alternatively, apply the following changes to your project:
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonDeserialize with tools.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonDeserialize.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonPOJOBuilder with tools.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonPOJOBuilder.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode with tools.jackson.databind.JsonNode.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.JsonNodeFactory with tools.jackson.databind.node.JsonNodeFactory.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode with tools.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper with tools.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.PropertyNamingStrategies with tools.jackson.databind.PropertyNamingStrategies.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser with tools.jackson.core.JsonParser.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonToken with tools.jackson.core.JsonToken.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonFactory with tools.jackson.core.json.JsonFactory.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.core.StreamWriteFeature with tools.jackson.core.StreamWriteFeature.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.JsonReadFeature with tools.jackson.core.json.JsonReadFeature.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.JsonWriteFeature with tools.jackson.core.json.JsonWriteFeature.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonFactoryBuilder with tools.jackson.core.json.JsonFactoryBuilder.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.impl.SimpleFilterProvider with tools.jackson.databind.ser.std.SimpleFilterProvider.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator with tools.jackson.core.JsonGenerator.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.jsonFormatVisitors.JsonObjectFormatVisitor with tools.jackson.databind.jsonFormatVisitors.JsonObjectFormatVisitor.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanPropertyWriter with tools.jackson.databind.ser.BeanPropertyWriter.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.PropertyFilter with tools.jackson.databind.ser.PropertyFilter.
  • Replace com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.PropertyWriter with tools.jackson.databind.ser.PropertyWriter.

Exceptions

  • Some instances of com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException are now tools.jackson.core.JacksonException.
  • com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException (the root for databind exceptions) becomes tools.jackson.databind.DatabindException.
  • com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException becomes tools.jackson.core.JacksonException.
  • com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.InvalidFormatException becomes tools.jackson.databind.exc.InvalidFormatException.

Some internal Micronaut Jackson classes have been relocated:

  • io.micronaut.jackson.env.JsonPropertySourceLoaderio.micronaut.jackson.core.env.JsonPropertySourceLoader

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