Handling Unknown JSON Properties with Jackson

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Published on 2010-05-04T08:34:22Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 8:38 UTC
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Hi,

For deserializing json with unknown field into an object there's @JsonAnySetter.

But what if I read such json into my object, modify some known fields and write it back to json? The unknown properties will be lost.

How do I handle such cases? Is it possible to map an object or do I have to read the data into a JsonNode or Map?

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