NoClassDefFoundError JsonAutoDetect while parsing JSON object

Question

I am developing a webapp using Amazon\'s cloud services and I need to make use of JSON objects. How my project is set up is, I have an HTML form where the user will fill in

Answer 1

Or the following gradle configuration:

compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.2.2'
compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.2.2'
compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:2.2.2'