Ignore null fields when DEserializing JSON with Gson or Jackson

Question

I know there\'s lots of questions about skipping fields with a null value when serializing objects to JSON. I want to skip / ignore fields with null values when deserializing J

Answer 1

What i did in my case is to set a default value on the getter

public class User {
    private Long id = 42L;
    private String name = "John";

    public getName(){
       //You can check other conditions
       return name == null? "John" : name;
    }
}

I guess this will be a pain for many fields but it works in the simple case of less number of fields